About Our Club

The Fairfax Civitan Club meets at 7pm on the first Thursday of each month in Fairfax, Virginia.  At these meetings we discuss ways to help the developmentally disabled in Fairfax and surrounding communities, and enjoy interesting program presentations.  See our Events page for additional service opportunities each month.  These monthly meetings and service opportunities give our members a chance to get better acquainted and develop strong relationships.

Our Club conducts numerous fundraising activities to help us support programs for the developmentally disabled.  We wrap books, we sell hot dogs at community events, and we sell the popular White House Ornaments and Entertainment Books.

Our "hands-on" approach for the disabled includes numerous projects for residents at the Northern Virginia Training Center, local nursing and retirement homes, community group homes, and clean-up at a local Fairfax City park.   Upcoming activities can be viewed on our Events page.

The Civitan Creed 

I AM CIVITAN: as old as life, as young as the rainbow, as endless as time.

MY HANDS do the work of the world and reach out in service to others.

MY EARS hear the cry of children and the call throughout the world for peace, guidance, progress, and unity.

MY EYES search for others to join in the fellowship and service of Civitan.

MY MOUTH utters the call to daily duty and speaks prayers in every tongue.

MY MIND teaches me respect for law and the flag of my country.

MY HEART beats for every friend, bleeds for every injury to humanity, and throbs with joy at every triumph of truth.

MY SOUL knows no fear but its own unworthiness.

MY HOPE is for a better world through Civitan.

MY MOTTO: builders of good citizenship.

MY BELIEF: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

MY PLEDGE: to practice the Golden Rule and to build upon it a better and nobler citizenship.