Our Mission.
To alleviate Food Insecurity and Hunger in the Upper Peninsula by partnering across communities to obtain and provide affordable and nutritious food and education.
About U.P. Lions Serve Foundation
U.P. LIONS SERVE is a 501c3 foundation that provides financial support for many projects and programs through District 10 Lions Clubs. UP Lions Serve focuses support in the areas of eliminating food insecurity and hunger and improving the health and well- being of communities through access to healthy and nutritious foods, community education and advocacy.
We see how the hunger and nutrition crisis affects local communities and believe true community improvement depends on the thriving of its members through access to nutritious, healthy, fresh foods.
We support hands-on, classroom and online education that teaches people of all ages how to grow, utilize and preserve their own grown food.
We serve to improve human flourishing!
Funding Request FlyerOur Goals.
- Identify and address food scarcity
- Improve Health Outcomes
- Provide resources to Lions in D10 to empower clubs and communities
- Collaborate with other Lions Districts to build stronger programs
- Focus energies and resources on our 3 buckets/Initiatives
- Build greater awareness of the UPLionsServe Foundation
- Provide micro-grant access for D10 Lions Clubs that align with our mission
- Meet Food needs on an emergency basis
- Partner with agencies in the Upper Peninsula that align with our mission
- Strengthen local food system through long term infrastructure and sustainability
- Increase access to nutrition education and training
To achieve our mission of making nutritious food accessible to every community in the Upper Peninsula HUNGER collaborates with community partners and agencies to create programs that aim to empower individuals to act on their own behalf. Hunger is an everyday presence for some, stressful both physically and mentally. We are on a Mission To Serve! Lions serve it's that simple, and it has been since we first began in 1917.
We can provide the seed, the soil, the compost, the education and the manpower to strengthen our local food system.
