Year Round Growth

Year-Round Growth.
Membership Excellence Lapel Pin.
under construction.

Announcing the Year-Round Membership Growth program: Prospective members may be interested in joining your club at any time. That's why the new Year-Round program was developed in 2000 to replace the October, Jan-Feb-March, and the Legacy of Lions growth programs.
The criteria for the Year-Round Membership Growth program in 2000 was certificates bearing the International President’s signature would be presented to Lions who sponsor one or more new members during a Lions year. First new members – President’s Bronze Certificate of Sponsorship,
Second new member – President’s Silver Certificate of Sponsorship, and Third New member and Higher – President’s Membership Excellence Certificate.
Lions Clubs International would provide each district governor with a supply of blank Certificates of Sponsorship and an information guide on how to prepare the certificates. It seems this certificate program only lasted a few years. Lions who sponsored three (3) or more members during the fiscal year would receive the Year-Round Growth Membership Excellence lapel pin bearing the International Presidents emblem. The International board decided in 2003 that the Year-Round Membership Growth materials would no longer bear a presidential emblem starting in 2004-2005. As you can see below this did not happen. In the 2008-2009 fiscal year the new membership packets came with a President's Certificate of Sponsorship, and is currently being used today. You can get these new member packets from LCI's club supplies office.