2. Identify
significant events in LCI history
01
Apply
Mission, Purposes and Ethics
02
Recognize
the structure of the organization
03
Describe
benefits of membership
04
Session
Objectives
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6. Our Logo
Approved Maurice Blinkās design in 1920
A circle with an āLā in the center and two lions profiles
facing the past with pride and future with confidence
looking in all directions to render service
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20. To empower volunteers
to serve their communities,
meet humanitarian needs,
encourage peace and
promote international understanding
through Lions clubs.
Mission
Statement
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22. LCI Purposes
1. To Organize, charter and supervise service clubs to be known as Lions clubs.
2. To Coordinate the activities and standardize the administration of Lions clubs.
3. To Create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
4. To Promote the principles of good government and good citizenship.
5. To Take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the
community.
6. To Unite the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual
understanding.
7. To Provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest;
provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be
debated by club members.
8. To Encourage service-minded people to serve their community without personal
financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical
standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private
endeavours.
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28. 5
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To take an active interest
in the civic, cultural, social and
moral welfare
of the community.
29. 6
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To unite the members
in the bonds of friendship, good
fellowship
and mutual understanding
30. 7
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To provide a forum
for the open discussion
on all matters of
public interest,
provided, however,
that partisan politics and
sectarian religion
shall not be debated
by club members.
31. 8
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To encourage
service-minded people
to serve their community
without personal financial reward, and
to encourage efficiency and promote
high ethical standards in commerce,
industry, professions, public works and
private endeavours.
33. Lions Code of Ethics
1. To Show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application
to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
2. To Seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due,
but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost
because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my
part.
3. To Remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear
down another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
4. Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action
towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.
5. To Hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship
exists not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that
true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is
given.
6. Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state,
and my community, and to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and
deed. To give them freely of my time, labor and means.
7. To Aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak,
and my substance to the needy.
8. To Be Careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not
destroy.
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35. Ethics - One
āReputation for quality of serviceā means:
a) Earning more money
b) Having flattering friends around
c) People appreciating you for the quality they get
d) Service is supreme
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37. Ethics - Two
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Which of these is NOT a good practice?
a) Demanding fair remuneration as your just due
b) Losing self-respect for earning profit
c) Resorting to questionable acts
d) Accept just profit
39. Ethics - Three
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Which of these is good advice?
a) Be loyal to your customers
b) Donāt be true to yourself
c) Tear down othersā businesses
d) Avoid building up your business
42. Ethics - Five
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Good friendship ā¦
a) is a means to an end
b) demands returns
c) is measured by service given by others
d) accepts service in it true spirit
52. Benefits of Membership
Be a Better Human Being
Fellowship
Personality
Development
Leadership
Service to
Community
Happiness Health
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. - Maya Angelou
53. Identify
significant events in LCI history
01
Apply
Mission, Purposes and Ethics
02
Recognize
the structure of the organization
03
Describe
benefits of membership
04
Session
Objectives
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As we grow in Lionism, we become stronger as individuals and as a group when we fully understand the association, its history and focus, and when we learn how to make the most of our opportunities to serve.
Lions Clubs International began as the dream of Melvin Jones, an American businessman who belonged to a club named the Business Circle of Chicago.
Melvin Jones believed that local business clubs should expand from purely professional concerns to focus on working for the betterment of their communities.
In 1917, he contacted members of similar independent organizations around the country and invited them to a meeting. Most agreed to merge as one association of clubs, and they took the name of the largest group, the Indiana-based Association of Lions Clubs.
The first convention was held in October of that year in Dallas, Texas, USA, where the constitution was adopted and the first president, Dr. W.P. Woods, was elected. Jones was elected secretary, beginning a 44-year career with the organization.
Melvin Jones explained his reasoning for the concept of service to the community with the saying, āYou canāt get very far until you start doing something for someone else.ā
For over 90 years Lions around the world have proven Jonesā saying to be true by serving local, national, and global communities.
In 1920, the Association of Lions Clubs was established internationally when the first club in Canada was chartered in Windsor, Ontario.
Today, Lions Clubs International has over 1.4 million members in over 200 countries and geographical areas around world.
Helen Keller was an American author and lecturer, who overcame considerable physical handicaps and served as an inspiration for other disabled people. When she was 19 months old, she was stricken with an acute illness that left her deaf and blind. She overcame these setbacks to earn a college degree with honors.
An early milestone in Lionsā history occurred in 1925 when Helen Keller addressed the organization at the International Convention in Ohio, USA. She challenged Lions to become "knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness."
Since this historic event in 1925, Lions Clubs International has been committed to ridding the world of preventable and reversible blindness and providing services for people who are already blind or visually impaired.
Ask participants to imagine they are conducting an archaeological expedition sometime in the future and they find these words written on a plaque. What would they think of the people who wrote the statement? Responses will vary but may include that they:
Were caring people
Put the needs of others ahead of their own needs
Sought no reward for their efforts
Ask participants to form eight groups
Assign one of the purposes to each group
Inform groups that they will have ten minutes to discuss the purpose assigned to their group. They may use the questions provided as a basis for discussion or develop their own discussion ideas
Alert them to be prepared to share their discussions with the entire group.
Inform groups that they will have ten minutes to create a role play of not more than two minutes in length that can serve as an example of a Lion either practicing or not practicing the specific ethic they have been assigned.
Alert them to be prepared to share their scenarios with the entire group.
Clubs are the heart of Lionism, but clubs are part of a large and widespread association that prospers through communication and cooperation at many levels.
Explain that we have all seen graphical interpretations of organizations. Businesses, governments, and clubs create them to show the relationships between different people in the organization and in some cases to indicate job responsibilities. For very large organizations, they may be split into smaller segments for clarity.
State that sometimes these are structured organizational charts. Frequently they are organized top down, with the person or persons of most responsibility at the top.
An important part of being a Lion is understanding how Lions Clubs International is organized.
The organization of Lions Clubs International begins with you, the member, and with your club. But like all large organizations, there are a number of levels within the organization, each of which supports the others.
Conduct a brief brainstorming session on the benefits of Lions membership:
Remind participants that benefits are āresults that promote well-being or satisfaction.ā
Ask participants to share what they believe to be the benefits of Lions membership
Summarize and list each response on a flipchart
Encourage participants to note benefits on page 5 in their Participant Manuals
Reinforce the importance of identifying these benefits: