Projects

(click on the picture to see the whole crew) Boise Bench Lions hard at work. Envision recyles between 60000 and 70000 pairs of glasses a year. Clubs all over Multiple District covering Southern Idaho and a slice of Eastern Oregon collect used eyeglasses and turn them into Envision. Boise Bench members do the bulk of…

The club sorts, bags, boxes or whatever, food at the Idaho Food Bank monthly. The Idaho Food Bank works with over 450 partners throughout the state and provides 100s of thousands of meals annually. Recently we helped pack 2,280 lbs. of russet potatoes into 10 lb. bags. The russets were covered in layers of ID…

The club did a short notice food drive for NeighborWorks and Eat Smart Idaho, these two organizations work together to provide food and other needed items to families throughout Idaho. They also participate in providing meals in public parks to children during the summer. NeighborWorks-As a congressionally chartered and funded nonpartisan nonprofit, we support organizations…

The club participated as road guards again this year a great tradition for this event which raises money for the fight against breast cancer.

The Boise Bench Lions were invited to a garden party at the Idaho Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired to celebrate the Seeds for Independence project and help set up the garden boxes. The boxes were assembled by students at ICBVI, with Lions, staff, and students all working together to complete the project. After…

Several intrepid members of our club rolled up their sleeves to help clean up Julia Davis Park following the annual Treefort Music Festival—Boise’s largest and most vibrant music event. Our team was assigned to Kidfort, a special part of the festival where young performers take the stage to sing, tell jokes, and showcase their musical…

The Boise Bench Lions Club recently welcomed a powerful presentation from Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP), the world’s largest bed-building charity, reaffirming the club’s ongoing commitment to ensuring no child in Idaho sleeps on the floor. Founded in 2012 in Twin Falls, Idaho, SHP has grown from a grassroots effort into a global movement with…

The Boise Bench Lions are proud to be able to offer Vision and Hearing Screenings at local schools.  The methods have evolved over the years to we now are able to use electronic vision screeners which are a lot faster and easier to use than charts of various sorts.  We also are able to use portable…

Bench Lions serving lunch and collecting pull tabs for Ronald McDonald House! Boise Bench Lions and Ronald McDonald house Video https://youtu.be/Ul3tLbR7urI

The Club volunteers at Zoo Boise during the summer to do landscaping once a month.  Despite it being summer, we had to dress warmly early in the season.  The Zoo really appreciates the help and we get to spend time at the Zoo and always visit the lion enclosure.

The Boise Bench Lions staffed the Found Kids Booth.  We volunteered from noon to 11PM and have been doing this project since 2014. Parents or guardians can bring their kids to the booth to be registered.  This year over 700 kids got a numbered arm band and record contact information for the parent or guardian. …