Circle K International (CKI) is the premier collegiate and university community service, leadership development and friendship organization in the world. With more than 13,250 members in 17 nations, CKI is making a positive impact on the world every day. Circle K clubs are organized and sponsored by a Kiwanis club on a college or university campus. CKI is a self-governing organization and elects its own officers, conducts its own meetings and determines its own service activities.
CKI blends community service and leadership training with the opportunity to meet other college students around the world. Projects such as the Six Cents Initiative, CKI’s International fundraiser that aims to provide water to the 2.2 billion children worldwide who lack safe drinking water, bring CKI members together to make a difference in the world.

UCLA Circle K is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Santa Monica.

• To emphasize the advantages of the democratic way of life.
• To provide the opportunity for leadership training in service.
• To serve on the campus and in the community.
• To cooperate with the administrative officers of the educational institutions of which the clubs are a part.
• To encourage participation in group activities.
• To promote good fellowship and high scholarship.
• To develop aggressive citizenship and the spirit of service for improvement of all human relationships.
• To afford useful training in the social graces and personality development.
• To encourage and promote the following ideals.
• To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.
• To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
• To promote the adoption and the application of high social, business and professional standards.
• To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
• To provide through Circle K clubs a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities.
• To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which makes possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism and goodwill.

UCLA Circle K offers a wide rage of opportunities for you to gain life-altering experiences! Being part of the team, you will be able to:

• Achieve a better understanding of the demographics & social welfare of the people who live in your community.
• Learn how to work and coordinate projects with groups effectively.
• Familiarize yourself with a wide range of career goals and academic interests by networking with other students.
• Develop of public speaking skills, time management, and various other leadership skills.
• Get acquainted with various leaders, professionals, and resources in the community.

We make volunteering easy for busy college students by offering a wide variety of projects and events to choose from every week. These range from small events like beach clean-ups, rescued dog walking, children tutoring, Habitat for Humanity, to bigger events, including the Annual Basketball Tournament, various walks for cancer and disease cures, the annual Tijuana orphanage trip, Makin' Magik Kamp for inner-city children, and much more! Find out more about these projects on the Events page. 
We also have great leadership opportunities within our club from President to Service Committee Chair to Historian positions, and many more positions available at the divisional, district, and international level. You can start off by joining a committee, and you're always more than welcome to ask us how to get even more invovled.

Circle K is an international community service organization with over 13,250 members worldwide in 17 nations, including the Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Colombia, Philippines, Nigeria, Ecuador, Malaysia, Panama, Dominican Republic, Taiwan, Antigua, Australia, Suriname, and the United States. Circle K blends community service and leadership training with the opportunity to meet many other college students at service projects, conferences, and conventions.

CKI began in 1936 as a Kiwanis club service project to provide an opportunity for capable, ambitious, and worthy young men to acquire a college education by assisting them, where necessary, with their financial problems, by means of a scholarship fund, if available, or securing part-time employment. Soon after the concept of CKI was recognized and accepted, the element of community service was introduced, thus creating an appealing outlet for collegians around the globe. Today, as the largest collegiate service organization, CKI boasts a membership of more than 12,600 collegians on more than 500 campuses worldwide. CKI is a student-led organization with an International Board of Representatives elected by its membership each year. Embodied by its tenets of leadership, fellowship, and service at the club, district and International levels, CKI continues to grow through service to the world's campuses and communities.

I pledge to uphold the objects of Circle K International, to foster compassion and good will toward others through service and leadership, to develop my abilities and the abilities of all people, and to dedicate myself to the realization of mankind's potential.

"Live to serve, love to serve."