The Lions Club of Buffalo, Host Club

Celebrating over 86 years
of Service to the community!

Mailing address/phone:
Buffalo Host Lions Club
3108 Main Street
Buffalo, New York 14214
(716) 835-3967

General Member Business Meetings:

The first Wednesday of the month at 12:00 noon
The third Wednesday of the month at 5:30 p.m.
No regular meetings from mid-June to early September

(Note: While the Lions are a private membership organization, individuals with an interest in joining who are invited by a current member are welcome, but weather or special circumstances could compel the cancellation of a particular meeting. Call at least one day in advance to confirm, if you wish to attend.)

Meeting Location:

Subject to change. As of early 2008, at:
Jacobi's Restaurant and Pizzeria
914 Kenmore Avenue at Campbell Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14216

The Lions Club of Buffalo, Host Club, offers assistance with vision needs, collects eyeglasses for the needy living in third world nations, helps people seek hearing aids, responds to acute needs in the community, and holds occasional fundraisers and special Club events, like most Lions. (Links to the Club's Sight or Hearing Assistance Request Forms can be found elsewhere on this website.)

For years we've co-sponsored the Annual Lions Dance for the Blind at the Leonard Post VFW Post, underwritten the Western New York Deaf-Blind Group's Christmas Party, supported the Baker Victory Service's Christmas Party for Special Needs Children, and sponsored a team in the Buffalo Sightless Bowlers League.

And the Club offers modest support to many other worthy, disability-related organizations as it receives the requests. While the specific recipients vary from year to year, some we have assisted in the recent past include: the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service; Western New York Independent Living; Friends of Night People; Excalibur Leisure Services; the Braille Group of Buffalo; Lions Camp Badger (the Empire State Speech and Hearing Clinic); the Elizabeth Pierce Olmstead MD Center for the Visually Impaired; Mid-Erie Counseling and Treatment Services of Buffalo, NY; Helen Keller International, EquiStar Therapeutic Riding Center; and the Club is a Platinum level charter sponsor of the Ira G. Ross Eye Institute.

We also support efforts on a broader scale through Lions Clubs International Foundation, such as LCIF's current principal thrust, Campaign Sight First II. We also cooperate with dozens of other Lions Clubs in District 20-N (Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua Counties) and in Multiple District 20 (New York State and Bermuda).

In recent years, Lions Clubs International has encouraged the formation of "Branches", sub-units of existing Clubs that are smaller than a typical Lions Club, but share particular interests or attributes. A number of Western New Yorkers with roots or other connections to the Caribbean, Central or South America, or other Spanish-speaking areas, have formed our Latino Branch, which has its own meetings and outreaches to the community. More can be found elsewhere on the website.