he Vancouver Lions Club, of Vancouver, Washington U.S.A., is a community service organization that began serving the humanitarian needs in the greater Vancouver, Washington community in 1919 as the Vancouver Prunearians before joining the International Association Of Lions Clubs on September 12, 1928.
The Club is organized a Washington non–profit corporation and is a §501(c)(4) non–profit organization under the United States Internal Revenue Code. The Club's charitable arm, the Vancouver Lions Foundation, is also organized as a Washington non–profit corporation and is §501(c)(3) charitable organization under the United States Internal Revenue Code.
Announcements…
- Club Membership Openings — The Vancouver Lions Club is currently accepting applications for membership. Membership is open to all persons of
good moral character and reputation who are over the age of 18. There are no limitations to membership based on business, profession, industry, employment, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, military service, race or affiliation. Note that Lions Clubs International has waived new Lions club membership initiation fees (otherwise $3500) through June 30, 2022, and there are discounts to annual dues for families and students. Consider joining the Vancouver Lions Club today and share the fun and fellowship of serving your community.
Pending Projects…
- Got Sneakers? Fundraiser — From now to the end of January, 2022, the Vancouver Lions Club is conducting a “Sneaker Drive” fundraiser. It is simple, really. Collect and turn in lightly used sneakers to the Vancouver Lions Club, and the Club will “sell” them to a sneaker recycling organization. The used shoes will be recycled to needy persons, and the money raised by the Club will be returned to the community through the Vancouver Lions Foundation. Email sneakers@vancouverlions.org for more information and for instructions on where you can deliver your collection of lightly–used shoes.
- Onesies Holiday Project — Everyone ought to have a onsie, right? Well, babies who are receiving chemotherapy sure ought to have them. And those two thoughts spurred a program from the District 19G (of which the Vancouver Lions Club is a part) pediatric cancer coordinator, PZC and LaCenter Lion Edie Brannon, to figure out how to alter onsies to add a flap through which a chemotherapy port can be accessed. The end result is that babies who are being treated for cancer can do so in the warmth of a onsie instead of naked but for a diaper. And the Vancouver Lions Club is all in on collecting onsies over the holidays, which will be donated to PZC Edie, then donated with the fancy port–flap installed to families whose babies need chemotherapy. All you have to do is buy one or more onsies (they need to be new) and get them to the Club. We will take it from there. Plain colors preferred. Sizes 9 and 12 months are the most requested sizes. Email onsies@vancouverlions.org for more information and for instructions on where you can deliver your collection of onsies.
Vancouver?
If you are looking for the web site of the Vancouver Lions Club that is located in Vancouver, Washington U.S.A., this is it!
As it turns out, there are a lot of Vancouvers,1 most of which are located fairly close to each other,2 all of which are named after Captain George Vancouver, or are named after a place that is named after Captain George.
So let's try to sort this out, maybe help you find what you are looking for.
If you are not looking for the Vancouver Lions Club of Vancouver, Washington U.S.A., but are instead trying to find the BC Lions football team, or maybe one of the 30–plus Lions Clubs in British Columbia that include “Vancouver” as part of their club name, they are each located a short, 4 hour 52 minute, 305 mile (491 kilometer) drive north on Interstate 5 (U.S.)/Highway 99 (Canada) from Vancouver, Washington U.S.A., in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.
(For the record, and just to add to the likely confusion, there are also 2 more “Vancouver” Lions clubs located here in Vancouver, Washington U.S.A.— the “Vancouver Dawn Lions Club,” and the “Vancouver Fort Vancouver Lions Club”— and there used to be at least two more!).
If you were trying to find Vancouver Island, or something or someone on Vancouver Island, that too is located in Canada, 247 miles (397 kilometers) to the north of Vancouver U.S.A., and a ferry ride across either the Strait of Juan de Fuca or the Strait of Georgia.
And now that you know where we are, whether we are who you were trying to find or not, please accept our invitation to spend some time learning about who we are, what we do, how we serve as Lions, and maybe even a little bit about why we we have chosen to be Lions as well.
1 See, “A tale of two Vancouvers”, by Jeffery Racheff, A Hundred Monkeys, April 1, 2010.
2 The exceptions being Mount Vancouver on the border between Yukon and Alaska, and New Zealand's 6th highest mountain— which is also named Mount Vancouver. Sheesh!.