We asked and Elks answered: This year’s Spotlight on Service supply drive was a record-breaking success! We received items from 932 individuals representing 632 Lodges, filling more than 70 large laundry bags and boxes with socks and 40 boxes with books.

The books were donated to Resurrection BookMobile, a service that provides books and literacy materials to students pre-K to 6th grade across the Kansas City area. With the help of Elks member Virginia DeBoard from Blue Springs, Mo., Lodge No. 2509, the socks were donated to individual veterans transitioning from homelessness to permanent housing, the Kansas City V.A., Fisher House, and roughly 10 Missouri Lodges for them to assist veterans in their own communities.

To ensure that the impact of this drive continues long after the Convention, every Lodge that donated was entered into a drawing to win a bonus $2,000 Community Investments Program grant. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the CIP, 20 bonus grants were given to Lodges.

Read below to see the winners of the drawing!