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Catholics, a third may have a large contingent of people in a certain industry etc. Typically such distinguishing features are not reflected in the organisations charter and may even give rise to a certain amount of embarassment among the leadership; especially if the organisation purports to pursue some goal of inclusiveness (not uncommon among service organisations). Nevertheless it strikes me as an important characteristic, and that it's lack of treatment with respect to Kiwanis seems to me to be an important oversight in this article.
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Kiwanis group of organizations includes Kiwanis International as well as dozens of Kiwanis "Districts" and thousands of individual Kiwanis "clubs". The name of an individual club is "Kiwanis Club of Boulder" (or wherever); it isn't "Kiwanis International in Boulder" or
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Kiwanis members listed in this article 275,000 is not sited and is out of date. To my knowledge this figure is currently around 600,000. If anyone knows the actual figure and can reference it that would be much appreciated.
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Kiwanis is an expression of the Otchipew Native American language, meaning either "We have a good time", "We make a noise", or "To Express Oneself". Source looks trustworthy, I think we should include it in this
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