WE ARE THE ARIZONA ELKS

Founded over 100 years ago in 1910, the Arizona Elks Association mission is the same today as it was then. Our mission to provide service to our communities and country. We have developed 2 ``Major Projects`` that help us support that mission. The University of Arizona's Steele Children's Research Center has been sponsored since 1992 by the Arizona Elks. The Pediatric Clinic see 65,000 children a year and has donated over $6.8 million dollars to date. Our second passion project is our Youth Camp is located 40 miles Northeast of Globe, Arizona, on Workman Creek in the Sierra Ancha Mountain Range. Open to all youth groups of Arizona at no cost! Click the button below to choose the causes you would like to contribute to.

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“Believe in what you do. And it can come true.”

– Mike Murphy, AEA President

WHO WE'RE FIGHTING FOR

These are some of the young lives we have been able to change through the research and care of the Steele Research Center. These children remind us why we can never, ever, stop.

Leanne Farr of Mesa (Jacob’s mom) thought her 2-year old had chronic allergies. What he had was a rare and aggressive form of cancer – acute non-lymphocytic leukemia (ANL) – and only a 25 percent chance of surviving…

Nothing in Amanda’s 10 years led her parents or her pediatrician to believe that she would develop juvenile diabetes, the most common chronic disease of childhood. But two years ago they got the news that changed their lives…

Courtney Zillman was diagnosed with neuroblastoma when she was 9 months old. Cancer became a way of life to her and her family. She once was overheard telling a neighborhood friend, “I can’t come and play today, I have cancer.”…

Little Kayla was born with a hole in her heart and needed open-heart surgery when she was 3 months old. Her condition, called endocardial cushion defect, occurs in half of all babies born with Down syndrome…

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