Lions are men and women who volunteer their time to humanitarian causes.
He believed that local business clubs should expand their horizons from purely professional concerns to the betterment of their communities and the world at large. Jones' own group, the Business Circle of Chicago, agreed. A constitution, by-laws, objects and code of ethics were approved. This object has remained one of the association's main tenets ever since. Just three years after its formation, the organization became international when the first club in Canada was established in 1920.