Local Charities
Local Charities
Our lodge motto is “Helping Our Community in Need”
As a nonprofit, charity is an integral part of our lodge. Most of our charities identified below are local, thus helping to make our community a better place to live. The help we provide on an annual base helps our community provide goods and services to people who need the help.
We are proud to help.
To eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research to provide and enhance care and support for all affected and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.
South Strand Helping Hand is a 501(c)3 partner with the United Way of HorryCounty. The Agency was founded in 1986 by area churches. Its goal was to reduce duplication of efforts when serving those in need in our community.
Our vision today is to provide emergency aid to individuals and families in need in the South Strand service area. We primarily provide emergency food, clothing, and financial resources for basic needs.
Canine Angels Service Dogs trains rescued dogs for disabled veterans & first responders in the Carolinas. We rescue the dogs. The dogs rescue the veterans.
The Community Kitchen of Myrtle Beach for the past 25 years has existed to feed the hungry. We serve the working poor, our senior citizens, Veterans, children, the transients, and the homeless.
The mission of the Veterans Welcome Home and Resource Center is to assist our local military veterans with job placement, filing claims with the Veterans Administration, help those veterans who find themselves in deep financial difficulties, and to shelter those honorably discharged veterans who are homeless.
In order to accomplish these goals we will seek out all available resources within the community, and bring a better awareness to the sacrifices our military veterans have endured to provide safety and security for the United States of America.
Fostering Hope Inc. is a nonprofit organization located in Conway, SC that provides goods and services to children residing in the foster care system in Horry, Georgetown, Marion, and Dillon counties in north eastern South Carolina. There are on average over 500 children within these counties that are in foster care due to abuse and/or neglect.
Adaptive Athletics is proud of the impact we are making in the lives of the disabled community. We have been able to help others by providing grants, giving refurbished sports chairs to first time athletes, and holding some family fun adaptive sporting events.
Helping the most vulnerable children of Horry County stay happy, healthy, and fed. Help 4 Kids / Backpack Buddies is a 100% volunteer organization that relies solely on donations. While school is in session, we collect donations of food and snacks, that are then put into food sacks that are sent home with underprivileged Horry County children in their backpacks on Fridays. We call them Barb’s Kids – after our founder Barb Mains.