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Title: History of Lions Clubs International


1
History of Lions Clubs International
  • Melvin Jones 1879 - 1961
  • He joined a Business Circle, an organization to
    promote ones own interest.
  • However, he thought, why not promote the needs
    and interests of communities? So, in 1917 he
    organized a meeting of business individuals in
    Chicago, Illinois, and formed Lions Clubs
    International.
  • 1920 Canada joined.

2
History of Lions Clubs International
  • 1925 Helen Keller addressed the Lions
    International Convention in Cedar Point, Ohio. As
    a result Lions became Knights of the Blind in
    the Crusade Against Darkness.
  • 1945 Helped the United Nations develop their NGO
    section (non governmental organizations).
  • Currently there are 1.3 million men and women in
    45,000 Lions clubs in 205 countries and
    geographic provinces.

3
Melvin Jones Fellowship Program
  • Created in 1973 as the highest form of
    recognition in the Lions organization, an honor
    to acknowledge an individuals dedication to
    humanitarian service.
  • Provides 70 of the Lions Club International
    Foundations revenue.
  • Contributions of 1,000 can be made by Lions
    clubs, individual club members, or in behalf of
    individual members by Lions clubs.
  • Our Anchorage Lions Club has pledged to raise
    16,000, in the form of Melvin Jones Fellowships,
    over five years, starting in 2007.

4
Lions Club International Foundation
  • Every dollar donated to LCIF goes toward a grant.
  • Since 1968, when LCIF began, it has awarded 9,000
    grants totaling US 640 million.
  • The LCIF SightFirst program, launched by Lions in
    1989, raised 143 million and prevented serious
    vision loss for 30 million people, and improved
    eye care services for hundreds of millions.
  • On average every 6 in donations has resulted in
    a person with vision restored or saved from
    blindness.

5
Lions Club International Foundation
  • The more than 900 SightFirst grants have
  • Provided more than 7.3 million cataract surgeries
    and prevented serious vision loss for 20 million
    people.
  • Supported 114 million treatments for river
    blindness,
  • Built or expanded more than 300 eye
    hospitals/clinics/wards and upgraded more than
    337 eye centers with equipment.
  • Improved eye care in 90 countries around the
    world.
  • Trained more than 345,000 ophthalmologists,
    ophthalmic nurses, other professional eye care
    workers and village health care workers.

6
Lions Club International Foundation
  • Campaign Sight First II was launched by Lions in
    2005 with the goal of raising 150 million by the
    summer of 2008. When the deadline was reached,
    200,329,000 had been raised.
  • The Financial Times has ranked the LCIF the top
    NGO in the world.
  • Lions is the only NGO allowed to operate in
    China. After the recent devastating earthquake,
    individual Lions clubs took the responsibility
    for a specific 10 day period of time, followed
    other clubs for the following 10 days.

7
Other LCIF grants for
  • Schools, camps, and homes for the disabled and
    disadvantaged youths.
  • Combating disability, promote health and serve
    youth.
  • Building countless homes for those in need, a
    program in partnership with Habitat for
    Humanities.
  • Up to 10,000 for districts affected by a natural
    disaster that affects at least 100 people,
    including tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and
    typhoons. LCIF typically awards over 2 million
    in emergency grant funding each year for
    immediate disaster relief.
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