Discover the history of the Minnesota Lions Hearing Foundation (previously known as the Lions Multiple District 5M Hearing Foundation). It was founded in 1973 to promote to the fullest extent the advance of research and programs concerned with hearing health and communication disorders.
For almost four decades, we have fostered a partnership with the University of Minnesota and have raised more than $7 million in funds for equipment, capital improvements as well as the hearing research. Together we have established:
The Lions 5M International Hearing Center
The Lions Voice Clinic
the Lions Children's Hearing and ENT Clinic
The Lions Affordable Hearing Aid Project
The University of Minnesota Department of Otolaryngology Temporal Bone Lab
In addition to the above, our foundation has funded a Newborn Hearing Screening program in all hospitals throughout all of Minnesota, ensuring that "all little ears can hear".
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune for it means the loss of the most vital stimulus — the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir and keeps the intellectual company of man.
Donations May Be Sent To:
Lion Rose Thies, Treasurer 21515 371st Avenue Green Isle, MN 55338
Please make checks payable to: Minnesota Lions Hearing Foundation
