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Moose International is a nonsectarian, nonprofit fraternal organization comprised of Loyal Order of Moose for men and Women of the Moose for women. more...

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Founded in 1888 in Louisville, Kentucky it is made up of roughly 2,000 lodges and one and a half million members in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, and the United Kingdom. Moose International headquarters is approximately 38 miles west of Chicago at Mooseheart, Illinois.

Among its charities are Mooseheart, a 1,000 acre (4 km²) campus for needy families in the western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois and Moosehaven, a home for elderly members in Orange Park, Florida.

Member services

Moose lodges offer several benefits to members:

a hub for social interaction;

inexpensive communal dinners.;

activities for families;

opportunities to play in sports leagues with other lodge members;

Community Service

For 25 years the Moose had directed its efforts almost completely toward Mooseheart and Moosehaven; now, with discharged WWII Veterans driving Moose membership to nearly 800,000 members, Director General Giles set out to broaden the organization's horizons. In 1949 he conceived and instituted the Civic Affairs program (later renamed Community Service), which encourages humanitarian efforts at the local Lodge level as well as organization-wide projects such as the Moose Youth Awareness Program, in which teenagers go into elementary schools and preschools to talk to 4- to 9-year olds about nutrition, drug abuse prevention, and similar topics. The curricula for these Moose "KidsTalks" are created by the Moose Youth members, with advice from adult experts.

More than 1,400 teenagers gather at Moose Association Student Congresses around the U.S. and Canada annually to exchange ideas on how to deal with problems in their own communities.

History

Loyal Order of Moose was founded in the spring of 1888 by Dr. John Henry Wilson in his home in Louisville, Kentucky as a social organization for men. Lodges were instituted in Cincinnati, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri, and the smaller Indiana towns of Crawfordsville and Frankfort by the early 1890s. Dr. Wilson himself became dissatisfied and quit the organization order well before 1900.

It was just the two remaining Indiana Lodges that kept Loyal Order of Moose from disappearing altogether, until the fall of 1906, when a government clerk named James J. Davis from Elwood, Indiana was invited to enroll in the Crawfordsville Lodge. On his 33rd birthday, October 27, he became the 247th member of Loyal Order of Moose. Davis changed the outlook of Loyal Order of Moose from a social group to one that provided protection for its members' families should the member die and leave behind a wife or child.

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