One purpose of the Fairfax Inter-Service Club Council (ISCC) is to share information about service club operations.  At the Feb 4th ISCC meeting, Lion Treasurer Mike Rumberg gave a great talk about technology useful for service club financials.

Lion Mike spoke about the evolution (and pros & cons) in Fairfax Lions Club financials:

• From entirely manual pen and paper Club records, mailing member invoices with members mailing payment checks, and all manual recording of cash/check charity sales; 
• To EXCEL electronic data records;
• To QUICKBOOKS for all Club financials for both charity and admin accounts, to invoice members, and to generate tax reports;  
• To SQUARE for charity fund raising sales (using SQUARE hardware to accept customer credit card payments, in person or on-line);
• And finally, to our current progress using ZEFFY

FX lions to donate $25,000 to INOVA Lions Eye Clinic to treat Glaucoma patients.

In FX Lions 75th year of serving our community, we will equip the area’s only free advanced eye clinic with this special machine for Glaucoma patients.

Please consider donating to the FX Lions; your contributions will increase our ability to serve others!

Silvia Nakasone, Director of the Lions Eye Clinic, and Katie Coyle, Senior Director of Philanthrophy for INOVA Health Foundation, tell FX Lions about the successes of the eye clinic.

Read about the INOVA Lions Eye Clinic at: https://www.inova.org/locations/inova-lions-eye-clinic

Fairfax Lions Club picks up donated eyeglasses from numerous locations in the Fairfax County area, and takes them to the Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center of No VA, http://lercnova.org. At LERCNOVA, volunteers inspect, clean, sort and package the eyeglasses to go with medical mission teams around the world. Medical professionals on the mission teams dispense the eyeglasses to people in need.

Lions FOCUS on vision programs, thanks to Hellen Keller’s inspiration, in 1925.

Club Treasurer reports receiving a donation from a very generous individual, who prefers to remain anonymous. The donor experienced FX Lions local service programs, and expressed his appreciation with a significant donation to the Club charity account. We Serve!

The Fairfax Lions James Bland Youth Music Contest will be held at 2:00 PM, Sunday, February 15, at Providence Presbyterian Church, 9019 Little River Turnpike, Fairfax.  Please encourage instrumentalists and vocalists in grades 4-12 to sign up.  Attached is the registration form.  Registrations should be emailed or mailed by January 31.

Also attached is descriptions of volunteer jobs.  Please consider volunteering.

Click for images from past year music contests: https://www.fairfaxlions.org/?s=bland+contest