Reaffirming Fellowship Through Membership
Through membership in a Lions club, people not only help those in need, but have opportunities to develop personal friendships and gain valuable leadership skills.

Membership in a Lions club is by invitation. The association is governed by an international board of directors. Each year more than 20,000 Lions attend their international conventions to discuss new ideas, share experiences and reaffirm frindship and fellowship.

The Maple Grove Lions Club is always looking for
new members.
The Maple Grove Lions meet twice a month, on the first and third Tuesday.

If you have an interest in providing community service, we would like to hear from you. For more specific information or to secure a sponsor for membership, please contact us.

Last Updated February 16, 2010
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Register now for the third annual Maple Grove Marathon and 5K Run

May 22, 2010

Registrations are being accepted on our website at http://www.maplegrovehalfmarathon.com/ Space is filling up fast. The relay has one opening left and the Half Marathon is over half full as of this posting.

Scholarship Applications Now Being Taken

The deadline for applications is February 24th, 2010.

The Maple Grove Lions will award 20 $1,000.00 scholarships in the spring of 2010.

Students need to be a resident of Maple Grove to be eligible, but may attend other schools.

Click Here to get more information and to download an application.

Charitable Donations are available from the Maple Grove Lions

The Maple Grove Lions are always looking for the best way to give the money that we raise each year back to our community. If you know of a worthy cause within the local area that could use the support of the Maple Grove Lions, please fill out our

Request for Charitable Donation form.

Our charitable review committee will carefully review each request and make a recommendation to our board of directors. Although we cannot possibly satisfy all of the requests that are presented to us, we will respond to every one.

Welcome! The Maple Grove Lions Club was chartered in 1963, and is a member of Lions International, a service organization with more than 1.4 million members in 43,000 clubs in over 185 countries. Lions is the largest service organization in the world!

Membership in the Maple Grove Lions is open by invitation to all service-minded men and women, age 18 and older. Our membership is comprised of people from all walks of life and of diverse backgrounds, united with one common goal -- we are ready to serve the Maple Grove Community.

Lions International History

The International Association of Lions Clubs began as the dream of Chicago businessman, Melvin Jones. He believed that local business clubs should expand their horizons from purely professional concerns to the betterment of their communities and the world at large.

Jones' own group, the Business Circle of Chicago, agreed and after contacting similar groups around the country, an organizational meeting was held on June 7, 1917, at the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago. A national convention of the "Association of Lions Clubs" was held in Dallas in October of that year, approving a constitution, by-laws, objects and code of ethics.

Among the official objects adopted in those early years was one which remains one of Lions' main tenets: "No club shall hold our the financial betterment of its members as its object."

In 1925, Helen Keller addressed the Lions at their annual International Convention, challenging them to become "knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness." Since that time, service to the blind and visually impaired has become on of the association's most significant activities. That crusade has resulted in the establishment of International SightFirst, in 1990, an aggressive global blindness prevention program.

Forty million people are blind, yet 80 percent of all blindness is preventable or reversible. International Sightfirst is an unprecedented program which joins leading blindness experts, blindness prevention organization, governments and Lions in an effort to establish long-term solutions in eliminating blindness.

The Maple Grove Lions support the activities of Lions International and also work very actively within the Maple Grove area donating money and time to further our community and make it a better place to live and work. Check out our Recent Events and Current Projects pages to learn more.

The Maple Grove Lions are always looking for the best way to spend the money that we raise each year. If you know of a worthy cause within the local area that could use the support of the Maple Grove Lions, please fill out our

Request for Charitable Donation form.

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