Minnesota Lions
Signatures for Sight Campaign
You can help restore sight and save lives with the Minnesota Lions Signatures for Sight campaign.
The Problem
There are too few corneas to restore the sight of all those who are in need of transplants. More than 100,000 Americans are in need of eye, organ, and tissue donations right now, and each day 100 people are added to the national transplant waiting list.
The Solution
Lives are saved or dramatically improved when people say “yes” to donation. The number of donors and the number of people helped increases when people legally designate themselves as donors by signing up on an online donor registry, by marking their driver’s licenses, or by committing to donation in health care directives.
The Campaign
Minnesota Lions Eye Bank has developed a Lions Signatures for Sight campaign to add to the number of legally registered donors on the Minnesota donor registry. Please participate and increase the number of registered eye, tissue, and organ donors in Minnesota.
Campaign Club Goal
Each Lions club’s goal is to achieve an average of four Minnesota Registry enrollment submissions per Lions club member. Campaign enrollment is tracked by the Signatures for Sight registry sign–up sheets returned to the Minnesota Lions Eye Bank.
How to Participate
• Lions receive Signatures for Sight sign–up
forms.
• Lions write their name and their club name on bottom of registration forms
prior to distributing the forms.
• Lions distribute donor registry enrolment forms to individuals and ask them
to complete the form.
• Lions collect and mail completed forms to the Minnesota Lions Eye Bank
(address printed on back of form) or have individuals mail in their own forms.
• On–line option: Clubs can mail a “confirming” registry sheet to the eye
bank if a participant chooses to register on–line (www.DonateLifeMN.org)
instead of on paper.
How to Succeed
Lions members can talk with family, friends, neighbors, business and social contacts to share the message about the need for donation and to encourage individuals to register their wishes to be donors.
Clubs can incorporate donation and registration information into their community events (White Cane Days, pancake breakfasts, school and community functions where a Lions table can be set up or a speaker scheduled, etc.). Members can hand out Signatures for Sight fact fliers and forms at events.
Clubs can provide information about the Signatures for Sight campaign to local news media outlets (radio, TV, newspapers, cable).
Clubs can have donor family members or transplant recipients share their personal experiences with news media representatives or at community events. (Minnesota Lions Eye Bank can be a resource in identifying donor family members or recipients who are willing to speak or be interviewed.)
Recognition
Clubs achieving an average of four new registrants on the Minnesota online donation registry, as accounted through registration forms received by the Minnesota Lions Eye Bank by December 31, 2008, will receive a banner patch and club pins. (Club name and member name must be included on the online registry forms submitted in order to receive credit for the sign–ups.)
Awards to clubs achieving their club goal will be presented early 2009.
Supplies and Questions
Clubs are welcome to download and duplicate the registration sheets and other materials as needed.
Click here to download Registration Sheet
Click here to download News Release
Click here to download Instructions
Registration sheets and Signatures for Sight fact fliers can also be ordered from Minnesota Lions Eye Bank by contacting Lion Jennifer or by completing the form below. There is no charge for the materials.
Lion Jennifer Marshall
Public Relations Manager
Minnesota Lions Eye Bank
1000 Westgate Drive Suite 260
Saint Paul, MN 55114
612–626–6081 (direct)
1–866–88–SIGHT (toll–free)
mader005@umn.edu