The International Association of Lions Clubs is the world's largest and most active service club with more than 1.3 million members in more than 200 countries and geographical regions.

Melvin Jones and other businessmen in Chicago, Illinois founded Lions Club International in 1917. The emblem pictured on the front page is a circular gold area with two lion profiles at either side facing away from the center. Symbolically the lions face the past and the future...proud of the past and confident of the future. The LIONS name is our slogan, as noted above. Nearly everywhere in the United States of America one can find Lions, Lioness and Leos Clubs.