How do we raise our funds? Over the past 40 years, the Ashland Evening Lions Club has relied on many and varied fund-raising projects such as: Lions Mints sales, Geranium Sales, Lions Candy Day, Poinsettia Sales, Tent Rentals, Rest Area Coffee Breaks, Yesteryear Machinery Show, various raffles, and garage sales.

The Ashland Evening Lions Club supports local and statewide youth related programs, designed to provide our young people with opportunities to serve, and the skills necessary to successfully navigate the challenges faced daily in their lives.

Since 1925, eyesight programs have been a priority with Lions throughout the world. We are committed to totally eliminating curable blindness. In addition to our donations to international programs, the Ashland Evening Lions have a history of working with sight problems in the following areas: Central Ohio Lions Eye-bank, Ohio Lions Eye Research Foundation, transporting corneas to OSU Hospital in Columbus, Pilot Dogs Program, eye-related monetary assistance, eye-related transportation of patients, recycling used eye glasses, sight testing of Pre-school children, providing magnification devices to the visually impaired, providing magnification devices to the local library, providing canes to the blind, and raising money to purchase Helper Dogs. We have continued helping those less fortunate, giving back to our community and sharing a special friendship. 

Our first major service project was a Glaucoma clinic started in 1964. We had the help and cooperation of community Doctors, nurses and members of the Noon club. The donation of beds for people to recline while getting their eyes tested for pressure. The clinic over a period of years expanded into blood pressure checking by the Health Clinic, hearing testing and diabetes testing. 

While the primary focus of our services has been eye care, we have also helped in these important areas as well: refinished Kinnaman Park benches, co-fund-raiser to raise over $240,000 to replace the Guy C. Meyers Memorial Band Shell benches, provide and staff the Santa House at Kinnaman Park each Christmas, provide Thanksgiving and Christmas food baskets to the needy, adopted a downtown light pole for Christmas, college scholarships sponsor, Special Olympics sponsor, Ohio Lions Band sponsor, provide Disaster Relief money to communities, provide Diabetes supplies, Camp Echoing Hills and Camp NuHop sponsor, YMCA sponsor, and Salvation Army Campers sponsor.