Kiwanis Club of San Ramon Valley
Kiwanis Club of San Ramon Valley

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What is Kiwanis?

Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world, one child and one community at a time.

Mission: To Serve the children of the world.

Service: Each year, clubs:

  • Sponsor nearly 152,000 service projects

  • Raise more than $133 million.

Membership:

  • About 8,000 clubs in 96 countries

  • More than 537,000 adult members

  • Approximately 326,000 youth members

Kiwanis is one of the few organizations that offers membership to almost all age groups!

San Ramon Valley Kiwanis Club

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Camaraderie

The San Ramon Valley Kiwanis Club is a long-standing community service organization comprised of local business leaders and community residents who enjoy good fellowship while helping local organizations and individuals through service.

Service

Our members contribute their time to local community efforts such as the NBC/Bay Area Food Drive, holiday toy drive, Alamo Tree Lighting, Casa Youth to Youth conference, and Relay for Life. Our club has also organized and conducted the 4th of July Parade in Danville since 1975.

GIVING

The San Ramon Valley Kiwanis Club started a grants program in the early 1990’s, and in the subsequent years has awarded grants to local community nonprofit organizations totaling more than $1,000,000. (Funding for the activities of the Kiwanis Club of San Ramon Valley have been raised through its affiliated nonprofit organization, the SRV Kiwanis Foundation, a 501c3 Public Charity.) The primary source of funding for our Grants program is from our generous 4th of July Parade sponsors. 

Community

Our club focuses on helping youth in the community by working closely with local Key Clubs for teens, Boy Scouts of America, and Girl Scouts of the USA. The San Ramon Valley Kiwanis Club also works closely with local Aktion Clubs for adults living with disabilities.

Service Leadership:

Our club currently sponsors:

Scouting America scouting units (formally Boys Scouts of America):

  • Pack 205 - Danville

  • Pack 805 - Danville

  • Troop 126 - San Ramon

  • Troop 216 - Alamo

  • Troop 302 - Walnut Creek

  • Troop 805 - Danville

  • Troop 815 - Danville

Key Club is an international service organization for high school students. As a student-led organization, its goal is to encourage leadership through service to others.

  • Amador Valley - Pleasanton

  • California - San Ramon

  • Dougherty Valley - San Ramon

  • Dublin - Dublin

  • Emerald - Dublin (to be chartered in January)

  • Monte Vista - Danville

  • Quarry Lane - Dublin

  • San Ramon Valley - Danville

  • The Athenian School - Danville

MEET SOME OF Our Members

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Kent Screechfield
Kent Screechfield

Kent Screechfield joined the Kiwanis Club of San Ramon Valley in 2016 but has been involved with the club since 2000 when it chartered his son’s Cub Pack and Scout Troop.  Kent is a former Scoutmaster and still mentors older scouts and assists in service projects that involve both scouting and Kiwanis.

Kent currently serves as the club secretary and also serves as an advisor to Key Club youth leadership.  Kent believes it is important for youth to volunteer their time on service projects that benefit others in the community and for our members to mentor them in their endeavors.

Dick Frankel
Dick Frankel

30 years, Kiwanis Club of San Ramon Valley

Attorney: 42-years; adjunct law professor; temporary superior court judge and hearing officer.

Organizations
• Danville Area Chamber of Commerce (Board of Directors, 1993-1996; President, 1995)
• Contra Costa County Bar Association (Member Board of Directors 1994-2003; President, 2002)
• State Bar of California, Board of Governors, (October 2006 – September 2009; Vice President, 2008- 2009)
• The Athenian School, Board of Trustees (2003 – 2006)
• Contra Costa County Assessor Appeals Board, (July 27, 2021 - present)

Fun Stuff
• Youth baseball and basketball coach
• Elementary school site council

Military service
• US Army Security Agency, 1966-1970 (Vietnam 1967-1968)

Nick Gant
Nick Gant

Nick Gant graduated with a B.A. in Geology from Trinity College in Dublin in 1967, followed by an M.Sc. in geophysics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Subsequently he joined a geological consulting company in the U.K. and finally moved to Chevron Overseas Petroleum in 1982 from which he retired in 2002.   

He lives in Danville and is married with two adult children, spending much time for his hobbies of genealogy, historical research and leisurely travel to far-off places.  

John Lineweaver
John Lineweaver

John has been an active member of Kiwanis for 45 years. Having joined the Alameda Kiwanis Club in 1979, he moved to Alamo in 1981, and transfer to San Ramon Valley Club.

He is currently Club Secretary and a Board member. John enjoys being chair of the Foundation’s Grants Committee, which given away over $35k annually to local non-profits.

He has been honored to have been chosen as Kiwanian of the Year 3 times and was elected as a Life Member in 2015.
Kiwanis has been a family affair for John, with his wife Rose who was honored with Kiwanis’ Walter Zeller Award in 2011. His 12 children, 27 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren are involved with many Kiwanis related activities.

His grandfather, Rev. Jesse Luther Lineweaver, was a founding and long-active meber of the Beckley, West Virginia Kiwanis Club in 1925.

Tat Huen
Tat Huen

Tat became a member of the Kiwanis San Ramon Club in early 2024 after retiring from his tech job in Silicon Valley. For Tat the weekly lunches at Black Bear Diner have provided opportunity to connect with like minded community members and enjoyed the different presentations.

He continues his volunteering opportunities as a Scout Leader at Troop 805, where his two sons have earned their Eagle Scouts. When not volunteering as scouting Merit Badge counselor for Engineering, Inventing, Archery, etc., he is working on his long list of home projects that requires learning new DIY skills.