Serve Your Community.
Gain Members.

To determine the best way to serve your community, follow the steps below.

Step 1: Meet a Need
Gather Lodge members and make a list of the needs in your Lodge community.

Step 2: Get Lodge Support
Recruit Elk volunteers and publicize the project through Lodge channels to keep members informed.

Step 3: Plan the Project
Apply for a Community Investments Program grant.

Step 4: Promote the Project
Promote the Lodge’s project by inviting the community and contacting the media.

Step 5: Celebrate Your Success
Tell your story to the media and send the final report form, pictures, videos and other information to the ENF.

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St. Augustine, Fla., Lodge No. 829 uses its Impact Grant to run the Kids Fit Club, teaching low-income children in the community about healthy lifestyles through physical activity, healthy diet and good choices.

Apply for an Impact Grant

Lodge Secretaries or Grant Coordinators:
  1. Go to the Member Login heading at the top right side of this page and enter your existing user name and password.
  2. Go to the ENF Grants application page.
  3. Choose Impact Grant and click "proceed to application.”
Impact Grants

Impact Grants are competitive grants intended to help Lodges address unmet needs in communities where Elks live and work. They offer Lodges a chance to make a significant and meaningful difference. All Lodges are eligible to apply for up to $10,000 for a charitable project. What would your Lodge do with $10,000 to serve the community? The possibilities are endless!

Is your Lodge interested in applying? Click here for some tips to get started!

Congratulations to the class of 2013 Impact Grant recipients! We are proud to announce the Lodges who received Impact Grants for 2013.

2013 Impact Grant Recipients

The Lodges featured on the map below are the 2013 Impact Grant recipients! The following projects received between $2,500 and $10,000 to make a significant different in their communities in 2013. (Renewal grants are marked as purple.) Click on a Lodge name on the map below for project details.

Click here to read more about the 2013 Impact Grant Lodges.
For a printable list of the 2013 Impact Grants, click here.
To view printable list of the 2012 Impact Grant Lodges, click here.

"We want you to use Impact Grants to do big things in your community, the kinds of things that will not only improve the quality of life in your towns, but also gain enough notice to convince others that they should be a part of an organization that is doing such great work in the community."
- Jim O'Kelley, Director, Elks National Foundation
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