LIONS CLUBS OF IOWA FOUNDATION ANNOUNCEMENTS

A Message from Iowa Lions Foundation President E. Duane Eldred

Greetings Iowa Lions, Lioness, and Leos, as President of the Iowa Lions Foundation, I need your help and cooperation. Need a program for your Club? There are two Iowa Lion Foundation Trustees in each District; so if they have not scheduled a visit to your Club, give them a call.

Your Iowa Lions Foundation has seven Entities to fund this year, and each Trustee can tell you what we as Lions need to do to fund them. One way is that each Trustee has the nice “I Gave” pin for sale. For a donation of $20 or more you may receive one of these nice purple and gold (UNI colors) pins. A new pin is issued each year with this being the fifth year. Pins from the previous four years are available from the State Office or your Iowa Lions Foundation Trustee.

Another item the Trustee has is raffle tickets for a clock that was designed by PDG Father William Holzer. The drawing will be at Iowa Lion State Convention in Waterloo. Tickets are one dollar each or six for five dollars. If every Iowa Lion would buy one ticket, it would help fund those seven Entities immensely.

There is the Round-up Program, buy a Brick Program, Memorials for a friend or love one, personal donations, and Club donations. All of these will help your Iowa Lions Foundation make their Budget.

The Iowa Lions Foundation is a 501c3 tax exempt non profit corporation. Donations are tax deductible. For donations amounting to $1000 in a three-year period, a Warren Coleman Honorary Award can be awarded. Your Club may already have money toward a Warren Coleman Honorary Award; so ask your Iowa Lions Foundation Trustee what that amount is. If you are already a Warren Coleman recipient a progressive program now exists. For additional donations in $1000 increments pins showing your level can be obtained.

Remember the last two paragraphs in the Lions Code of Ethics: “TO AID my fellow men by giving my sympathy to those in distress my aid to the week and my substance to the needy. TO BE CAREFUL with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.”