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LCIF Ranked Best NGO Worldwide
In a special report released Thursday, July 5, 2007, Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) ranked best among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide. From 34 global organizations, LCIF came in first for its execution of programs, demonstrated accountability, communications internally and externally, program adaptability to the surrounding community, and understanding the goals of its corporate supporters.
LCIF beat out Rotary International, Habitat for Humanity, UNESCO and UNICEF, to name a few on the list.
The ratings were compiled by the Financial Times in association with the Dalberg Global Development Advisers and the United Nations Global Compact. The assessment was published in the Financial Times' Corporate Citizenship and Philanthropy special report and highlights companies'
The list was released at a meeting of executives of NGOs and the UN in Geneva, Switzerland.
Lions Clubs International Foundation is Lions helping Lions serve the world. Donations provide funding in the form of grants to financially assist Lions districts with large-scale humanitarian projects that are too extensive for Lions to finance on their own. The Foundation aids Lions in making a greater impact in their local communities, as well as around the world. Through LCIF, Lions ease pain and suffering and bring healing and hope to people worldwide. For more information, visit
www.lcif.org .
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Southeaster Lions Leadership Institute
Southeastern Lions Leadership Institute: The institute will be held 27-30 March 2008 at the
Tennessee
Conference
Center
for the
United Methodist Churches in
Beersheba Springs
,
Tennessee
.
Cost will be $110 per person but includes all lodging, meals, and materials. The institute is open to Lions who have not served as VDG
and will include topics such as goal setting, meeting management, group dynamics, team building, personality, leadership style, problems solving, conflict resolution, delegation, mobilization of volunteers, diversity, protocol, mentoring, and public speaking.
For more information contact Past InternationalDirector Dr. Beverly Roberts at 706-592-2982 or email at pidbroberts@bellsouth.net .
Only 60 spots are available, so send in your registration now!
Download copies LeadershipSchoolProcess.pdf
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MMR - Problems
Hi, Lion Cabinet Secretary/Treasurer
I continue to wait for my membership number and password so that I can submit our MMR, etc online. I will submit all reports needed when I get this information. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can get this number, etc. any faster? I would appreciate any suggestions you can give me.
Sincerely,
Lion ?????? ??????
Secretary, ?????? Lions Club
Dear Lion ???????,
I checked the Lions Club International website and the officers for the ?????? Lions Club are not listed. The secretary from your club
did not notify Lions Club International of the names of the President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Membership Chair for your club for this year. The PU 101 form needs to be submitted to Lions Club International or last year's secretary needs to get on the Lions Club International site to do the form on-line. This was due May 15.
The Lions Club International website says: Passwords By Email - If you are a current club or district officer, your password can be sent
to you by email. You must have a current email address on file with headquarters. See the "Need your password" link on this page. Then enter your member ID number and click "Submit." Your password will be sent to you shortly via an automatic e-mail response.
Even without a password you can get a copy of the PU 101 form by going to the Lions Club International website at www.lionsclubs.org, pick English, on the left side menu under MEMBERS find Club Resource Center, click on that, scroll down to the secretary section and continue scrolling until you reach Officer Reporting Forms and Applications and look for
Click on that.
On the form wherever there is a red # symbol, you should be able to type in the information using your computer keyboard. Then print out the form and fill in by hand the name of the club, the club number of ???? and the meeting information at the top. Send the form to Lions Club International.
Your member number is: ???????
????'s member number is: ???????
?????'s member number is: ???????
You need these for the form.
I have sent copies of this email to other district officers in case any of them have additional advice in this matter.
Good luck and let me know if I can be of any further help.
Lion Cabinet Secretary/Treasurer
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Bugles Across America now has over 5000 bugler volunteers located in all 50 states and growing number overseas. Since the Department of Veterans Affairs is expecting more than 1/2 million veterans to pass every year for the next 7 years, Bugles Across America is ALWAYS recruiting new volunteers.
Bugler Volunteers can be male or female. They can play a traditional bugle with no valves, or they can perform the ceremony on a Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn, or a 1, 2 or 3 valved bugle. The bugler can be of any age as long as they can play the 24 notes of Taps with an ease and style that will do honor to both the Veterans, their families, and the burial detail performing the service.
Volunteer Online here.
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GAGeorgiaCHIPChild Identification Program
What If Your Child Is Missing?
If Your Child Is Missing
ACT IMMEDIATELY if you believe your child is missing.
*If your child is missing from home: Search the house -- checking closets, piles of laundry, in and under beds, inside
old refrigerators -- wherever a child might crawl or hide. If you still cannot find your child, immediately call your local
law-enforcement agency.
*If your child disappears in a store: Notify the store manager or security office. Then immediately call your local
law-enforcement agency. Many stores have a Code Adam plan of action. If a child is missing in the store, the
emoloyees immediately mobilize to look for the missing child.
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Request that your child's name and identifying information be immediately entered
into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Missing Person File.
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*When you notify law-enforcement: Explain to them that your child is missing and that your child has been identified at a GACHIP event. The tools that you received in the GACHIP identification kit will provide law-enforcement with digital
pictures and information that is compatible with the Amber Alert program. Tell law-enforcement when you noticed that your
child is missing and what the child is wearing. Request that your child's name and identifying information be immediately
entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Missing Person File.
What is GACHIP?
GACHIP -- the Georgia Child Identification Program -- is one of the most comprehensive Child Recovery, Identification,
and Abduction Awareness programs ever to be offered to parents in the state of Georgia. Since 2004, Freemasons from various state jurisdictions in the United States and in several Canadian provinces have sponsored Masonic CHIP events.
At a CHIP event, Freemasons set up the equipment and enlist the aid of local volunteers, as necessary, to generate completed child identification kits. Each child progresses through several stations taking about 10 to 15 minutes for the entire process. The recorded information is presented to the child's parent or guardian to take home for safekeeping. All information is confidential and GACHIP retains nothing but the permission form when the kit is completed and given to the parents.
The mission of the GACHIP program is to raise public awareness concerning the risk of abduction or exploitation that our children now face in today's society. This mission is accomplished by conducting GACHIP events throughout our state.
No Charge to Parents 
Georgia Masons are presenting GACHIP program free of charge to the public. This program is offered as a public service and as our gift to the citizens of our state.
GACHIP provides a valuable tool for the parents or guardians of a child -- a small computer disk that includes:
*Full color digital photographs showing various poses of the child. These color photographs can be circulated by the police to the media in the case of abduction and can be used in the Amber Alert Program.
*A complete set of digital fingerprints. Everyone's fingerprints are unique and are a well known tool for recovery, investigation and identification.
*Information about the child including distinguishing features such as hair and eye color, scars, etc. The disk will also contain contact information for parents or guardians.
*A laminated ID Card that contains your child's information and a photgraph.
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