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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.

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