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Maryville Lions Club
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Where Your Gift Goes
Your donation is distributed among these ten partners to maximize impact in vision care, access, and independence:

  • Childhood Cancer – helps children and families manage treatment side-effects that affect vision and learning.

  • East Tennessee Eye Bank – supports cornea recovery and transplantation for restored sight.

  • Learning Ally (formerly Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic) – provides accessible audiobooks and learning tools.

  • Lions Volunteer Blind Industries (Morristown, TN) – creates employment opportunities for people who are blind or visually impaired.

  • World Services for the Blind (West Tennessee) – training and rehabilitation services that build independence.

  • Diabetes Awareness – education and screenings to help prevent vision loss caused by diabetes.

  • Hearing & Speech Foundation (Maryville) – local support for hearing and communication needs.

  • Leader Dogs for the Blind – guide-dog training that restores safe mobility.

  • Lions Quest – youth life-skills education, including healthy decision-making and service.

  • Tennessee School for the Blind – education and enrichment for students who are visually impaired.

Maryville Lions Club supports a broad array of vision related non-profits who make a local impact

Donate to Our Benevolent Fund

Help restore sight and independence.

Gifts to the Maryville Lions Benevolent Fund support ten vision-related charities—often called our “White Cane Charities” in addition to our local service projects performed by the club. This fund began in 1940 and is separate from our administrative fund (which is covered by member dues). Benevolent Fund gifts are never used for club operating costs.  Our club also uses our Benevolent Fund to help support Lions Clubs International Foundation (see information below)

Why Give Through Lions?

  • Local stewardship, proven partners. We direct funds to trusted programs with measurable impact.

  • Transparent separation. Benevolent Fund donations are kept separate from administrative funds.

  • 110+ years of service worldwide, decades in Maryville. Your gift joins a long tradition of sight-saving work.

Ways to Give

  • One-time or monthly via PayPal/Debit/Credit Card (preferred).

  • Tribute gifts (in honor/memory): add the name in your PayPal note and we’ll acknowledge per your instructions.

  • Matching gifts: many employers match—submit your receipt to double your impact.

  • By check: Make payable to Maryville Lions Club care club Treasurer of C. A. Bailey - 709 Shannondale Way, Maryville, TN 37803 

LCIF (Lions Clubs International Foundation) Mission

LCIF Worldwide Causes

To support the efforts of Lions Clubs worldwide in serving their local communities and the world community as they carry out essential humanitarian service projects.  Here in Blount County LCIF was a major donor to fund the Maryville’s John Sevier all-inclusive Playground, and provided relief funding for Gatlinburg wildfires as well as Hurricane Helene.

  • Childhood Cancer

  • Diabetes

  • Disaster Relief

  • Environment

  • Humanitarian

  • Hunger

  • Mental Well-Being

  • Vision

  • Youth

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