Charities

Leader Dog For The Blind

Founded in 1939 by Lions Club members, Charles Nutting, Don Schuur and S.A. Dodge, Leader Dog has successfully matched and graduated over 13,000 person / dog teams since its inception. The dream of these men became vision and independence for thousands.
www.leaderdog.org

Penrickton Center

Penrickton Center for Blind Children is a unique, private non-profit agency, providing five-day residential, day care, and consultation/evaluation services to blind, multi-disabled children ages one through twelve. Each program is individually designed to promote independence in all aspects of daily living. Penrickton Center utilizes its experience and expertise to train and serve families, children and professionals through support services, education and advocacy.
www.penrickton.com

Beaumont Silent Children Fund
Beaumont's Center for Childhood Speech and Language Disorders was established in 1972 to help children with speech and language disorders learn to communicate. As one of the largest hospital-based children's speech and language centers in the United States, they provide a variety of specialty care programs for children with speech and language disorders such as:

Developmental aspasia
Receptive language disorders
Expressive language disorders
Developmental apraxia
Developmental dyspraxia

Articulartion disorder
Pragmatic disorders
Stuttering
Down syndrome

The Lions and Lioness Clubs provide support for children in need through the Beaumont Silent Children's Speech Fund

www.beaumonthospitals.com

Lions All State Band
Each year from 1948 to 1977, a high school band was selected to represent the Lions of Michigan in the annual parade at their international convention. In 1978, an all-state band was organized to honor and play for an incoming Lions International President from Michigan. The Lions All State Band was created and has appeared annually at conventions thereafter.
www.lionsofmi.com/Pages/All_State_Band.htm

Michigan Eye Bank and Transplant Center
The Michigan Eye-Bank was organized in 1957 as a joint project of the Ann Arbor Host Lions Club and the University of Michigan Medical Center. After many years of support by a group of dedicated Lions Clubs, the Eye-Bank was accepted as a State Project of the Michigan Lions in 1971.
www.mebtc.org

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

The primary objective of the Lions program is to reduce the number of new cases of blindness caused by diabetic retinopathy through diabetes education, early detection and treatment, and support of research. Lions are especially encouraged to conduct awareness activities during the month of November--Lions Diabetes Education Month.
www.jdrf.org

Madonna: Deaf and Hearing Impaired
Since it's inception in 1976, Madonna University's Office of Disability Resources (O.D.R.) has assisted more than one thousand (1000) students with disabilities. The O.D.R. employs four full-time employees who work as a team to create the best possible learning environment for students with disabilities. They are sensitive to the needs of individual students and are also fluent in American Sign Language.
www.madonna.edu

Lions Quest Program

A school-based, comprehensive, positive youth development and prevention programs that unite the home, school and community, to cultivate capable and healthy young people of strong character, through life skills, character education, SEL, civic values, drug prevention, and service-learning education.
www.lions-quest.org

Fraser Community

School scholarships to deserving students
Aided in the building of Fort Fraser
Build wheelchair ramps for the disabled
Sponsor Halloween and Christmas parties for the community
Purchase glasses and hearing aids for those in need
Collect used glasses and hearing aids

Many more deserving and worthwhile institutions and programs.

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