Lodge	Members	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001
Canton #458	70	$8.357	$7.574	$6.974	$8.025	$7.229
Clarksdale #977	142	$5.810	$4.458	$4.469	$11.041	$3.294
Corinth #2573	190	$5.432	$3.382	$6.609	$1.533	$11.684
Greenville #148	174	$7.787	$0.766	$11.206	$0.641	$25.880
Greenwood #854	83	$2.735	$4.050	$3.654	$0.283	$27.374
Biloxi #606	606	$13.391	$29.005	$4.113	$3.756	$4.458
Gulfport #978	271	$4.391	$4.461	$8.636	$4.375	$4.286
Hattisburg #599	899	$2.189	$3.469	$0.989	$0.946	$1.011
Natchez #553	145	$0.103	$0.219	$0.513	$1.169	$2.310
Ocean Springs #2501	390	$10.864	$6.172	$4.541	$5.345	$4.452
Pascagoula #1120	411	$5.633	$9.086	$5.336	$3.967	$2.506
Vicksburg #95	120	$5.750	$4.268	$4.095	$3.817	$2.696

How is the
Elks National Foundation
Helping Mississippi?

When you give to the Elks National Foundation, you're doing more than funding the Elks National Drug Awareness and "Hoop Shoot" programs. You're doing more than supporting the Elks National Veterans Service Commission and the Elks National Home. You're doing more than providing Emergency Educational Grants to the children of deceased or totally disabled Elks. You're doing more than maintaining the Elks Veterans Memorial.

You're doing all that, and you're supporting Elkdom in Mississippi.

During the 2002-03 Lodge year, the Elks of Mississippi donated $16,509.21 to the Elks National Foundation. This year, the Foundation will give back the following:

• A State Charities Grant of $9,660.00, and a bonus grant of $4,770.00. The bulk of this grant will go toward your state's major charitable project. But portions will be used to fund your state Drug Awareness, "Hoop Shoot" and Soccer Shoot programs.
• A Special Projects Grant of $8,800.00. We've authorized your state to use this grant to enhance its educational programs, as well as other charitable and philanthropic programs.
• A total of at least $8,000.00 in "Most Valuable Student" scholarships to 2 high school seniors from your state. In addition, we will award 5 Legacy scholarships-a total of $5,000.00-to children and grandchildren of Elks who have been members for at least two years.

That's a total grant of at least $36,230.00, which represents a ratio of 2.195 for every dollar the Foundation received from your state last year.

And if you'd like to know what the Elks National Foundation has done for Mississippi in the past, since inception in 1928 through March 31, 2003, the Foundation has granted a total of $597,451.59 to your state, compared with your state's total donations of $484,779.02. That's a ratio of 1.232 for every dollar the Foundation has received from your state.

The Foundation's past support includes:

• $238,629.00 in State Charities Grants
• $70,400.00 in Special Projects Grants
• $139,100.00 in "Most Valuable Student" Scholarships
• $22,025.00 in Emergency Educational Grants to the children of deceased or totally disabled Elks

For more information about the Elks National Foundation, contact your local chairman or write us at Elks National Foundation, 2750 N. Lakeview Ave., Chicago, IL 60614, enf@elks.org.