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Shriners Use Custom Lapel Pins for Many Different Reasons
Posted by Lapel Pins Plus | Tuesday March 29th, 2011 | Topic: Lapel PinsTagged: Custom Lapel Pins
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Shriners International is a fraternity of about 340,000 members and 193 chapters within the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and the Republic of Panama. The organization is grounded in Masonic principles of brotherly love, relief and truth.
Supporting the Cause in Several Ways
The brotherhood supports Shriners Hospitals for Children, a health care system of 22 hospitals committed to improving children’s lives through specialized pediatric care, extensive research and quality teaching programs for health professionals. In order to provide children with the wide number of medical services it has available, Shriners International engages in several events and activities in which custom lapel pins serve many different functions.
Conferences, Meetings and Ceremonies
The lapel pin shown here was created for the Shriners’ annual conference at which five different Shriners’ temples in Tennessee will be meeting to discuss the year’s events calendar. Custom pins are perfect for events such as this because they help guests remember the conference message as well as the fun time spent with others. Pins can be very detailed to provide attendees with a visual reminder. Their light weight and small size make them easy to travel to and from the event.
Some Shriners International chapters have used their organization pins to give away at local events. This is an excellent way to not only promote the organization but to also educate others about the organization and what it does. With recipients being able to wear lapel pins, they will always have an accessible and useful way of remembering the organization.
Fraternal orders like the Shriners and Masons are known for possessing an element of secrecy. This secrecy drives the need to hold private meetings. Members at these meeting proudly wear unique member pins which add to the overall sense of pride and exclusivity of being in the brotherhood.
Marking the achievement of milestones within the organization is yet another good reason for which the Shriners have used their group pins. Often times one can see these award lapel pins on the members’ clothing, uniforms or the fraternity’s well known fez hat.
No list of customized lapel pin uses is complete without mentioning that they make great fundraising items. The Shriners, as have many other organizations, have also sold the pins to raise money to support their foundations. As fundraiser pins, lapel pins offer the organization extreme flexibility and unlimited creativity of design. The more creative and unique the lapel pin, the better it sells which is great for padding the organizations available funding.
For more information about how Lapel Pins Plus can help your organization reach its marketing, outreach, member participation and fundraising goals using custom pins, give us a call at 1-800-252-0904 or send us an email at info@lapelpinsplus.com.
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