October 12 Cabinet Meeting
LCIF Report

Thank you for your donations.

This year goal for our MD 27 is to increase our annual donation to LCIF to meet the ever increasing needs. Our goal for MD27 this year is $270,000.

In District D1, we have received grants totaling $235,950 from 1985-2014. In 2014 a grant of $75,000 was given to the Restoring Hope House. The total of all grants given in the state of Wisconsin from 1984 — 2014 is $1,811,728. This can continue with your help of donating to LCIF. Thank you.

We also help to protect children from measles. We are continuing the partnership of Lions Clubs International and GAVI Alliance to protect children from measles. Lions are challenged to raise $30 million for immunization, match by $30 million from the UK Government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This is to be raised by 2017. Success breeds success. The GAVI Alliance and Lions Clubs International will utilize this unique partnership to protect tens of millions of children in the world's poorest countries against measles, a highly infectious disease that kills an estimated 430 people every day (mostly children), mostly in developing countries. This partnership makes Lions Clubs the largest member of the GAVI Matching Fund. We are making progress, but still over 300 children die each day from measles and its complications. For $0.87 we can vaccinate a child.

Lions Club International has put forth the Centennial Service Challenge as an initiative to celebrate Lions 100 years of service and challenge clubs to participate in all four Global Service Action Campaigns to benefit 100 million people by December 2017. The four Global Service areas are: Engaging our Youth, Sharing the Vision, Relieving Hunger and Protecting our Environment. While there are designated months to focus on these service activities, clubs have the flexibility to conduct these projects throughout the year; club secretaries would report the number of people affected and benefitting by each activity. What does this have to do with LCIF? Any donation to LCIF hat is earmarked for sight, youth, One Shot One Life Measles Initiative or disaster relief (which will be used in part by LCIF for families experience food shortages in the wake of disasters) will qualify for the CSC and club banner patch recognition. Such donations will qualify for the meeting up to 3 to 4 challenge areas of the CSC if a club EARMARKS their donation to a particular LCIF area: Youth (youth), Measles Initiative (youth), Sight (sight) and Disaster Relief (hunger). LCIF will calculate the number served in these cases. There will be a banner patch available for each club and for each of the 4 Lionistics years: 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18.

Updated on Standard Grant amounts: the minimum amount for an LCIF Standard Grant was raised from $5,000 to $10,000 and the maximum amount has been raised form $75,000 to $100,000 in matching dollars.

If you would like to know how much money you have donated, towards a Melvin Jones please contact me and I will be happy to give you that information.

Thank you
Laurie Holthaus