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How do I Join?

It's easy to join. We're looking for people who want to be involved. Contact our Membership chair or any officer, committee chair, or current member. (See the Contact Us page) Come to a meeting. First-time attendees get dinner for free! Meet us and hear about the good things we're doing.

Why Become a Lion?

There are many reasons to want to join the San Carlos Lions Club. Please see the Vision Statement, Mission Statement and Purposes below. If you support these goals, you should strongly consider joining the San Carlos Lions Club.

Motto: "We Serve"

Vision: TO BE the global leader in community and humanitarian service.

Mission: TO EMPOWER volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions clubs.

Purposes:

TO ORGANIZE, charter and supervise service clubs to be known as Lions Clubs.
TO COORDINATE the activities and standardize the administration of Lions clubs.
TO CREATE and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
TO PROMOTE the principles of good government and good citizenship.
TO TAKE an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.
TO UNITE the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.
TO PROVIDE a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.
TO ENCOURAGE service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavors

Lions Objectives:

TO CREATE and foster a spirit of “GENEROUS CONSIDERATION” among the peoples of the world through a study of the problems of international relationship.
TO PROMOTE the theory and practice of the principles of good government and good citizenship.
TO TAKE an active interest in the civic, social, and moral welfare of the community.
TO UNITE the members in the bonds of friendship and mutual understanding. TO PROVIDE a forum for the full and free discussion of all matters of public interest, partisan politics and sectarian religion alone excepted.
TO ENCOURAGE efficacy and promote high ethical standards and professions: provided that no club shall hold out as one of its objects financial benefits to its members.

Lions Ethics:

TO SHOW my faith in the worthiness of vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
TO SEEK success and to demand all fair remuneration of profitfor my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
TO REMEMBER that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down others. To be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
WHENEVER a doubt arises as the right or ethics of my position of action towards my fellow man, to resolve such doubt against myself.
TO HOLD friendship as end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one to another, but true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the true spirit in which it is given.
ALWAYS bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my unswerving loyalty in word, act as deed; to give them freely of my time, labor and means.
TO AID my fellow man by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
TO BE careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise. To build up and not destroy.