Lions Clubs International Foundation

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Lions Clubs International Foundation
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LCIF is

• A global leader in humanitarian service
• Lions helping Lions to help the world
• Lions serving your community and the world
  community
• Your foundation!

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LCIF is

• Official charitable foundation of Lions Clubs
  International
• Provides grants to assist Lions with large-scale
  humanitarian projects
• In our 40-year history, it has awarded nearly
  9,000 grants totaling US625million

Local Service, Global Impact
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Four Pillars of Service

• LCIF
• Supports Youth
• Provides Disaster Relief
• Combats Disability
• Gives Sight

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LCIF Supports Youth

• Lions Quest
• Teaches life skills, character education, civic
  values, drug prevention and service-learning
  education
• Active in 50 countries serving more than 11
  million youth
• LCIF grants have helped build schools, clinics,
  youth camps and shelters

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LCIF Provides Disaster Relief

• LCIF provides emergency assistance when natural
  disasters strike

• Southeast Asia Tsunami
• US15.4 million
• Hurricane Katrina
• More than US5 million
• Sichuan (China) Earthquake
• More than US3 million
• Hundreds of grants for local disasters around the
  world (earthquakes, floods, etc.)

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LCIF Combats Disability

• Special Olympics Opening Eyes Program
• Provides athletes with vision testing and
  eyeglasses
• 100,000 athletes screened
• Habitat for Humanity partnership
• Funded the construction of 1,000 homes for people
  with disabilities
• Affordable Hearing Aid Project

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LCIF Gives Sight

• In 1925, Helen Keller challenged Lions to be
  Knights of the Blind
• It is Lions mission to provide Vision for All

• Preschool Vision Screenings
• Sight For Kids
• Partnership with Johnson and Johnson
• General eye-care services
• SightFirst program

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SightFirst Program

• SightFirst is LCIFs flagship blindness
  prevention program
• SightFirst has
• Helped to save the sight of more than 27 million
  people
• Prevented vision loss for 30 million people
• Improved eye-care services for hundreds of
  millions
• Awarded 896 grants totaling US211 million to 90
  countries

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Campaign SightFirst II

• To continue and expand the SightFirst program,
  Lions launched Campaign SightFirst II in 2005
• Lions worldwide responded to make CSFII Lions
  greatest success
• More than US200 million raised

Thank you!
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How LCIF Helps.

• Helps Lions respond collectively to major
  humanitarian concerns in your community and
  around the world
• Enables Lions-to-help-Lionsespecially in times
  of calamity and disaster
• Funds projects too big for districts/clubs to do
  on their own
• Develops relevant grant-making initiatives to
  help Lions better serve the world community

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LCIF Grant Programs
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LCIF Grant Programs

• Standard Grants Matching grants of up to
  US75,000 for local humanitarian service
  projects.
• Core 4 Grants Funds special projects in
  eyesight, disability, health and youth (1 per
  district). Grants up to US200,000.
• International Assistance Grants Supports club
  twinning projects US5,000 to US30,000 (1 per
  district)

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LCIF Grant Programs (cont.)

• Emergency Grants Provides up to US10,000 for
  districts impacted by natural disasters
• Major Catastrophe Grants Provides up to US1
  million for catastrophic disasters
• SightFirst Grants Blindness prevention and
  sight restoration projects in neediest areas

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Tips for Grant Application

• Contact LCIF before applying
• Submit application ASAP
• No funding for completed projects
• Background information on beneficiary
  organization
• Lions financial contributions and involvement
• Full contact information
• Multiple correspondence is possible

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Tips for Grant Application

• Consult past international leadership
• Clearly lay out the projects objectives,
  including number of beneficiaries
• Fill out the application in its entirety
• An income and expense budget is needed the more
  income collected, the better
• Project must be large-scale and one Lions cant
  fund on their own

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How to Promote LCIFCommunications Initiatives

• Lions and Clubs
• Items focused on program and grant-making
  initiatives
• Specific MJF publications
• Possible exclusive LCIF publication, 3-4 times
  annually
• LCIF Coordinators
• Program related news and updates
• Progress updates and statistical reports
• Training tools
• External Audience

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Promoting LCIF

• Materials available online
• -PowerPoints
• -Speeches
• -Publications
• -News release
• -News release templates
• -Media Clips
• New LCIF traveling exhibit in U.S.

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Promoting LCIF

• Talk about LCIF and the need for support
• Encourage clubs to appoint an LCIF Chairperson
• Show a DVD or PowerPoint
• Suggest a donation to LCIF in lieu of gifts
• Sign up for the Chairpersons e-blast

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Unprecedented Opportunity

• Lions worldwide are engaged in the work of LCIF
• There is an understanding of the need for
  humanitarian service only LCIF and Lions can
  provide
• With the success of CSFII, an expanded LCIF is
  possible

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LCIF Staff Can Help

• As you serve your local and world communities,
  LCIF staff is here to serve you.