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# Santa Monica Elks raise $24,851 for disabled children's programs
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/062405-story-20050624/
- Published: 2005-06-24T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:17:23.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Community, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

The Elks have recently lent a helping hand to handicapped children. The California-Hawaii Elks raised $2,735,385 in 2004-05 to help children with disabilities. Ray Beers, this year’s exalted ruler of the Santa Monica Elks, presented a check for $24,851 to the Elks Major Project.

“We are pleased and proud that members of our Elks lodge were so generous with their dollars and time,” Beers said. “It should be noted that this represents $91.70 for each member of our lodge.”

Over the past 55 years, the 99,000 members from California and Hawaii have turned over more than $78,000,000 to the California-Hawaii Elks Major Project. It should be noted that the majority of the funds are raised in urban areas and spent in rural areas.

All of the funds are devoted solely to providing therapy treatment, vision screening, scholarships and vocational training to children with a wide variety of disabilities. In rural areas, the services are not readily available, officials say.

Santa Monica Elks had the highest per capita contribution — which was $91.58 BRIEFS, from page 3 — of any lodge in the State Association, Elks officials said. Poetry can pay off

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 24, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/062405.pdf?ref=smdp.com)