We Serve with Pride and Passion
Are you looking to make a positive impact in your community? The Fort Bend West Houston Lions is your nonprofit organization with a strong membership dedicated to serving. Based in Katy, Texas, our association is committed to making a difference through community service and outreach. Join us in our mission to create a better, more inclusive community for all.
Outreach
Our club offers various outreach programs to support the local community, from food drives to educational seminars and more.
Membership Benefits
Become a member and enjoy exclusive benefits such as access to special events, discounts online, and networking opportunities.
Being Intentional in Service
Supported by Cane Island Katy Inc. and the Katy Lions Foundation, our mandate is serving the Greater Katy, Fort Bend County, and West Houston, Texas community. We are one of only three LGBTQIA+ specialty Lions Clubs out of the nearly fifty thousand chapters worldwide, and the only one focused on advocacy and awareness.
Member Engagement Resources
Our club offers a wide range of resources to help our members engage with the community, including online toolkits, training materials, networking events, and so much more. We are committed to providing the support needed for our members to make a positive impact in Fort Bend County, the Greater Katy Area, and West Houston.
Volunteer Oportunities
Join our all-volunteer team and make a difference through a wide range of projects and initiatives, from environmental clean-ups to voter registration and more.
Social Advocacy
Participate in advocacy campaigns that aim to promote social change and equality for all members of the community.
Educational Seminars
Gain valuable knowledge and skills through our monthly seminars, covering topics such as financial literacy, health and wellness, and career development.
Community Events
Join us for engaging and fun community events that bring people together and foster a sense of belonging and connection.
About the Club
Officially the Fort Bend County West Lions Club, we are a nonprofit community service association based in Katy, Texas. With a strong membership base, we are dedicated to making a positive impact in our local community.
Through various initiatives and projects, we strive to address the needs of our community and improve the lives of those in need. Our dedicated members work tirelessly to support causes related to childhood cancer, diabetes, disaster relief, the environment, humanitarian endeavors, reducing hunger, vision, youth, and social welfare. Join us in our mission to create a better future for our neighbors.
Charities, Initiatives, Programs, and Partners
Transparent Closet
The Transparent Closet is a free clothing boutique designed for trans and exploring teens, youth, and young adults to have a safe space for clothing needs and beyond. The Closet is a welcoming space with clothes, undergarments, binders, hair and style accessories, make-up, and more.
Katy Police Department
We collect toys in November and early December to take to the Katy Police Department. We also host an annual event to raise funds for the K-9 handlers.
Katy Heritage Society
Working with the Katy Heritage Society, we provide a second $1000 Adult Continuing in the Workforce Scholarship. Lifelong learning should be accessible to all, and this unique scholarship promotes the City of Katy and our unique history while providing a platform for adults to gain professional education.
Neighborhood Garden Project
The Neighborhood Garden Project is a community garden giving families the opportunity to grow food by helping remove common suburban obstacles - primarily the lack of adequate space and sufficient sunlight. The project caters to all ages and abilities, providing a safe space to learn and experience.
Hope Impacts
In support of Hope Impacts, we organize an annual clothing drive in the offseason and as needed to supplement their inventory of socks, underwear, pants, and more. Through this partnership, situationally homeless people are given a sense of dignity and wellbeing through meals, showers, laundry services, counseling, and more.
Eyes of Hope
Working with Katy ISD and Hope Impacts, we meet the critical need of providing glasses to our low-income neighbors in Katy. We are a local VSP Eyes of Hope Certificate Provider, offering those who meet the eligibility criterea eye exams and glasses at little to no cost to them or their families.
Lions International Foundation
The mission of LCIF is to empower Lions clubs, volunteers, and partners to improve health and well-being, strengthen communities, and support those in need through humanitarian services and grants that impact lives globally, and encourage peace and international understanding. Our club directly supports LCIF.
Students Engaged
SEAT is a movement of young people developing transferable skills and demonstrating youth visibility in policymaking. By engaging in constructive action with active engagement in hands-on opportunities of advocacy and education, they're creating a vehicle for driving civic transformation as we build a social movement for bettering our communities and dismantling oppressive power structures.
Katy ISD
Working with our partners in the Katy Independent School District, we sponsor 17 individual contests for the largest art competition in the world. We are also sponsoring 17 contests for the biggest essay competition in the State of Texas.
The Boaz House
The Boaz House provides a racially, ethnically and culturally diverse therapeutic community that is well-suited for women who are serious about recovery. This unique community environment also nurtures peer support by providing an avenue for recovering addicts and alcoholics to share emotional, social and practical help with each other. Our club supports the Boaz House with vision assistance.
San Antonio Bexar Necessities
The San Antonio Bexar Necessities Lions Club aims to bring the commitment of service to San Antonio and the surrounding area through service projects and events that will make our community safer and stronger, providing greater impact on our Global Causes and our local community initiatives in Education, Health, and LGBTQ+. Our clubs are in ongoing collaboration.
Bay Area League of Extraordinary
The Bay Area League of Extraordinary Lions are a local specialty club focusing on supporting our differently-abled neighbors in fulfilling their lives, and its members come from all over the Upper Gulf Coast of Texas. Our clubs are in ongoing collaboration.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Belonging
Representation matters. That's a big focus for our organization. We cannot be a force of good serving our community when we do not have everyone we serve at the table. "There's something about seeing someone who looks like you that makes it more tangible."
Being intentional about our language. Just because we've always done it that way never means that it's automatically okay. We strive to be inclusive with our language, and check our own stereotypes and thoughts before we react. We are Lions, not mosquitos. "Some people experience mosquito bites all the time."