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The Loyal Order of Moose is a fraternal and service organization founded in 1888, with nearly 1 million men in roughly 2,000 Lodges, in all 50 states and four Canadian provinces, plus Great Britain and Bermuda.
  Along with other units of Moose International, the Loyal Order of Moose supports the operation of Mooseheart Child City & School, a 1,000-acre community for children and teens in need, located 40 miles west of Chicago; and Moosehaven, a 63-acre retirement community for its members near Jacksonville, FL. Additionally, Moose Lodges conduct approximately $70-80 million worth of Community Service (counting monetary donations and volunteer hours worked) annually.
 
Manchester Moose Family Centers Community Service Committee serves the Metro Richmond Community with many generous contributions made possible   by our Volunteers that serve on our BINGO Committee. On Thursday and Sundays we offer Bingo to our members and the general public.   The proceeds of our Bingo is contributed  to organizations as  the Massie Cancer Center, Children’s Hospital, Kidney Foundation, Chesterfield Fire & Rescue, Heart Association, Camp Baker, Camp Fantastic (Children with Cancer) Chesterfield Social Services, Chesterfield Police and many more.  The  Massie Cancer Center has named there new Research Wing the “VIRGINIA MOOSE CANCER RESEARCH WING” due to the generous contributions of all the Moose Lodges in Virginia….over  $2,000,000.00 and still growing.
  We also help support MOOSEHEART, Child City & School   is a residential childcare facility, located on a 1,000-acre campus 38 miles west of Chicago. The Child City is a home for children and teens in need, from infancy through high school. 
 
Moosehaven, The City of Contentment Moosehaven is a 70-acre community established and supported by the Moose organization for its members and their spouses.  It is located on the banks of the St, John’s River in Orange Park, Florida, 15 miles south of Jacksonville, Florida
 
The Moose Community Service program of today and for the next century challenges people to become volunteers through membership in the Moose. It calls for capable and inspired leadership and for a generous giving of thought, effort and time according to the Moose Six-Point Community Service Program. Counting hours worked, miles driven and dollars donated, the Moose contribute $70 - $80 million worth of service every year to communities throughout the U.S., Canada and Great Britain.
  Community Service has been an ever-growing portion of the overall Moose fraternal program ever since its inception under the name "Civic Affairs" by then-Director General Malcolm Giles in the late 1940s. The kaleidoscope of all that is Moose Community Service was organized into a "Five-Point Program" in the early 1990s, and then expanded in mid-decade to the "Six-Point Program" with its familiar logo at left.