Programs & Events

For additional information on any of these tournaments, or if your lodge would be interested in hosting a future tournament, please contact:

Activities Department
Mooseheart, IL 60539-1172
630-966-2214

The 21st Annual Blessing of the Bikes will take place on Saturday, May 17th, 2025. Advanced registration for this event is preferred!

Advanced Registration: $20.00 per bike
Day of Registration: $30.00 per bike

For more information about the event and to register online today, visit the Moose Charities website.

Without members and lodges, the Moose Fraternity would be powerless to provide the level of assistance necessary to support children in need, our seniors, and initiatives within our communities. With that in mind, the Moose International Board of Directors initiated a series of grant programs ten years ago intended to put money back into our lodge homes to make them more functional and attractive to new and existing members. Over time, these programs also came to include local marketing grants to promote ourselves within our communities; and in a time of need, pandemic relief grants to keep lodges from closing during the COVID-19 shut downs.

Over the past ten years, over $10M has been redirected back to the lodges through these grant programs, and the Board recently announced plans to not only continue those programs, but to raise funds available to the lodges and introduce a new program into the mix.

Beginning with the new fiscal year starting in May, the following grant programs will be in place:

• Lodge Grants (infrastructure and improvements) – $1.5M available to be granted, up from $1M the past two years. Grants are available up to $25,000 per lodge.
• Local Marketing Grants – $500,000 available to lodges for the third straight year.  Grants are available up to $3,000 per lodge.
• NEW – Lodge Signage Grants – $1M available to update, replace or refurbish lodge signs. Grants are available up to $3,000 per lodge.

Requirements for all of the grant programs remain the same:

• At least one member of the lodge is required to attend the International Moose Convention in New Orleans in July.
• At least one member of the lodge is required to be attendance at the lodge’s 2023 Association Annual Convention in the Fall; and at least one member of the lodge is required to attend the lodge’s 2024 Association Midyear Conference in the Spring.
• Lodge must be in good standing and run as a fraternal operation.

2024-2025 Local Marketing Grant Guidelines
2024-2025 Lodge Grant Guidelines
2024-2025 Lodge Sign Grant Guidelines

The Moose Rewards program has been extended indefinitely following the recent Moose International Board of Directors’ Meeting in February. The program, established in 2015 for an initial five-year period, had been extended until April 30, 2024 by a Board vote several years ago. The recent Board action eliminates any end date, although the Board has the ability to terminate the program should it ever fail to provide a benefit to the Fraternity.

Through the Moose Rewards program, all active members have the opportunity to earn points for doing activities to help the Fraternity grow stronger; then redeem those points for items such as lodge dues, convention registrations, catalog sales merchandise, donations through Moose Charities, and even Moose cruise fees.

Moose members may go to mooserewards.org for complete information about the program.

For more than 25 years, we have organized high school students into a highly effective speakers’ bureau with the goal of educating preschool and elementary school-aged children on a variety of topics, including drug and alcohol abuse, child abuse, “stranger danger,” bullying and peer pressure, and healthy habits and nutrition.

Through Moose KidsTalks presentations, participants in the program have reached an audience more than 750,000 children throughout North America. Students also have a chance to compete for $30,000 in college scholarship money that is awarded annually through this program.

For more information about how youth can participate and for the Association Youth Awareness Congress Schedule and lists of Loyal Order of Moose & Women of the Moose Youth Awareness Coordinators, please visit our Forms/Documents section.

It’s time for the Moose Fraternity to start using less paper and help to protect the natural habitat of our namesake – The Moose!

Utilizing the technology right at your fingertips, you can start receiving your membership dues notice electronically either by simple text message or in an email.

Once you opt-in to text messaging or an email notice, you’ll be just a simple tap or click away from the Moose International renewal page and paying your dues by credit card in a matter of minutes.

Stay better connected to The Moose Fraternity; get your dues notice electronically and know that you’re helping us all be better stewards of our natural resources.

Click here to opt-in to begin receiving electronic dues notices in the future.

If you need any assistance, our Member Services staff is ready to assist you Monday – Friday from 7am – 4:30pm (CT). Just call us at (630) 906-3658 or email our Help Desk.

The R. Robert Dale Scholarship program has been modified and renamed as the new “Heart of the Community Scholarship Program,” because R. Robert Dale funds were expended years ago, and the program is now being supported solely by the Moose Fraternity. We believe this more accurately reflects the fraternity’s commitment to supporting youth in the community. Read about more specific program changes here.

• Class of 2026 Information Sheet
• Class of 2026 Application
• Class of 2025 Scholarship Winners

If you have any additional questions, please contact Dallas Arnold either by E-Mail or at 630-966-2257.