Honora Gathings

Executive Director @Kiwanis Club Of Birmingham

Birmingham, AL, US

I manage the world\'s largest Kiwanis club with more than 540 of our top and most influential business, non-profit, government, education and civic leaders, as well as the Birmingham Kiwanis Foundation. Our club continues to grow and diversify to reflect the community that we serve. I build relationships to find new ways to better serve our community. New initiatives are helping us build a stronger organization and a better community for our youth and families for another 106 years.Highlights:• Closing out a nearly $6 million dollar campaign• Creating the ever expanding Kiwanis Reads, a preschool literacy program serving roughly 900 students annually• Partnering with the sheriff’s office for Books Not Bullets, a program providing deputies on patrol with books to foster positive relationships and a love for reading with children • Launching the Kiwanis Emerging Leaders Program for rising young professionals• Chartering new Key Clubs, service leadership programs in high schoolsOther initiatives:• Re-opening our Birmingham Kiwanis Foundation grants cycle for the first time since 2016 to award money to Birmingham area non-profits serving children• Diversifying communications with members and community by introducing published annual report, mailed quarterly publication and new membership management software• Implementing rebranding project• Creating DEI Task Force• Awarding additional scholarship money to graduating high school seniors• Expanding Kiwanis Reads pre-school sites in its first year and providing more than 400 preschoolers with books.• Finding new ways to assist our Kiwanis Reads students, including sending rising kindergarteners to school with backpacks filled with supplies • Providing volunteers as a sponsor of The World Games 2022

Florida State University

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Boston University

MS