Our Projects

We serve Massachusetts communities by promoting organ donor awareness, funding cutting-edge eye research, and providing low-vision assistance to those in need.

Lions Organ Donor Awareness (LODA)
Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund, Inc. (MLERFi)
Massachusetts Lions Low Vision Network (MLLVN)

Lions Organ Donor Awareness Program

LODA

We serve by partnering with Donate Life New England, the multi-state effort to increase the number of registered donors and life saving transplants.

Donate Life New England is a project of New England Donor Services, an affiliation of the two federally designated organ procurement organizations that serve the New England region.

New England Donor Services coordinates organ and tissue donation in the six New England states and Bermuda.

MLERF

Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund

In 1951, the Lions of Massachusetts became aware that each year, 2,500 premature babies were losing their sight at birth from so-called ‘baby blindness’.

As a result, the Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund was formed, dedicating itself to funding research.

For over half a century, research grants provided by Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund, Inc. have resulted in helping hundreds of thousands of people with eye diseases.

We help researchers transform today’s ideas in to tomorrow’s cures.

Massachusetts Lions Low Vision Network (MLLVN)

Dedicated to improving the quality of life for people affected with Low Vision in our communities.

The Massachusetts Lions Low Vision Network is a non-profit, joint program of the Massachusetts Lions and the New England College of Optometry. We are dedicated to offering services, and in some cases, financial help to the Massachusetts Low Vision community.

Low Vision is permanently impaired vision that can’t be corrected by glasses, surgery, or contact lenses. It can be caused by age-related conditions, congenital conditions, acquired brain injury or other damage to the visual system. Fortunately, most people with these impairments have some usable vision.