Upcoming Events

Current Events

Eye Ball

Friday, October 27, 2023
7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Earle Brown Heritage Center, The Captain’s Room
6155 Earle Brown Drive
Brooklyn Center, MN 55430

Dance the night away to The Jammers at the Minnesota Lions Vision Foundation’s annual Eye Ball fundraiser for the University of Minnesota’s Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Neurosciences eye programs that restore and preserve sight. Guests will partake in appetizers, live music, dancing, a wine pull, and cash bar. Tickets are $30 per person or $50 per couple (cash or check).

For more information, please contact Jennifer at [email protected].

Thanksgiving for Vision

Saturday, October 28, 2023
9:00 a.m. Registration & Coffee
9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Silent Auction Fundraiser
9:30 a.m. Symposium
11:30 a.m. Lunch

Earle Brown Heritage Center
6155 Earle Brown Drive
Brooklyn Center, MN 55430

Thanksgiving for Vision celebrates sight! Celebrate the Gift of Sight at this annual symposium luncheon that focuses on the work of Minnesota Lions in supporting the University of Minnesota’s Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Neurosciences eye programs that restore and preserve sight. At the event you can: Hear from a corneal transplant recipient and donor family member; Learn about the Lions eye programs at the University of Minnesota; Mingle with Lions club members, corneal recipients, physicians, researchers, and eye bank staff at a delicious luncheon.

For more information, please contact Jennifer at [email protected].

Past Events

LGS Donate Life Month Flag Raising

Monday, April 3, 2023
Program 10 a.m.
University Enterprise Labs - South Entrance
1000 Westgate Drive
Saint Paul, MN 55114

Lions Gift of Sight and friends and partners will gather to raise the Donate Life Flag at University Enterprise Laboratories, the eye bank's home since 2007.

Donate Life Month is a nationally-recognized time to celebrate and honor eye, organ, tissue, blood, and bone marrow donors, all of whom have saved or bettered the lives of other individuals, often strangers. By flying the Donate Life flag above our home, we raise awareness of these precious gifts that all of us have the potential to give. And we honor those who have already given.

Donor & Family Recognition Program

Sunday, April 16, 2023
Program 1:30 p.m. Reception to follow.
Anderson Student Center - James B. Woulfe Alumni Hall
University of St. Thomas
Summit and Grand Avenues
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105

Lions Gift of Sight feels very strongly about recognizing our eye donors and their families and loved ones for their support of sight restoration through corneal transplants, research, and education. On April 16, we will honor our eye and cornea donors from 2022.

For more information contact Jodi Altenhofen or click here.

University Sight and Hearing Programs Lions Tours

Clinics and Surgery Center - Minneapolis
Lions Gift of Sight - Saint Paul

Minnesota Lions generously support the University Departments of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology (sight and hearing). To learn more about the programs Lions support, all Lions clubs are invited to come to the Twin Cities for a tour.

Lions guests will see the hearing clinics, eye clinics, surgery suites, as well as the Lions Voice Lab and the Lions Gift of Sight eye bank. Lions club secretaries will be sent tour and registration details.