Mount Prospect Lions Club Is All About Community
Throughout its long history, the Lions Club has raised money through our community events to benefit individuals and organizations in and around Mount Prospect. Some of our charitable initiatives include:
- Donating funds to stock the Village’s food pantry for the needy
- Sending blind, deaf and special needs individuals to Camp Lions
- Financing eye examinations and glasses for needy people
- Awarding college scholarships to deserving high school seniors
- Promoting reading by giving away children’s books at community events
- Donated the farmland to the Park District, that was developed into Lions Park
- Purchased the pavilion for the Edwin and Elsie (Meyn) Busse Pocket Park
- Purchased bicycles for the Police Department’s bicycle patrol
- Sponsored historical building restorations done by the Historical Society

Sight impaired child finds a Beeping Easter egg using sound recognition during the Mount Prospect Lions Club annual egg hunt