Masonic Charities Across America: Homes, Hospitals and Learning Centers, and How Your Lodge Connects to Them

Overview

Masonic charity in America runs well beyond the lodge treasury. Grand Lodges operate homes for the aged, the Shriners run children’s hospitals, the Scottish Rite funds speech and dyslexia programs, the York Rite funds eye and hearing research, and the Masonic Service Association supports veterans in VA hospitals.

This guide covers the main institutions in turn: Grand Lodge homes in California and Pennsylvania, Shriners Children’s, the Scottish Rite’s RiteCare clinics and Children’s Dyslexia Centers, the Knights Templar Eye Foundation, Royal Arch Research Assistance, the Masonic Medical Research Institute and the Masonic Service Association. For each it gives what the charity does and when it began. It then shows how a lodge can use the network: building a referral sheet, handling a request for care step by step, the questions to ask any program, and how to give time as well as money. It closes with common mistakes and how to work with your Grand Lodge.