Charities Elvis Donated To

Elvis Presley was famous for giving away Cadillacs and jewelry, but the true depth and breadth of his generosity and community involvement is not so widely known. Elvis never forgot where he came from and throughout his life gave to hundreds of charities..

In 1961 Elvis gave a benefit concert at Bloch Arena in Hawaii that raised over $65,000 toward the building at the U.S.S Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. The resulting publicity gave new life to the fund-raising effort, which had by then, lost almost all of its momentum. The memorial opened a year later.

Audience tickets for his 1973 Aloha-From Hawaii television special and its pre-broadcast rehearsal show carried no price, as each audience member was asked to pay whatever he or she could. The performances were a benifit raising $75,000 for the Kui Lee Cancer Fund in Hawaii.

Each year Elvis gave at least $1,000 or more to fifty Memphis-area charities but also randomly made many other charitable donations in Memphis and around the country continually.

Most of Elvis' philanthroic endeavors received no publicity at all. Throughout his adult life, for friends, for family and for total strangers, he quietly paid hospital bills. bought homes, supported families, paid off debts, and so much more.

St. Jude In 1964 Elvis purchased FDR's presidential yacht, the potomac and gave it to Danny Thomas as a fund-raising item for St, Judes Childrens Research Hospital in Memphis. The presentation took place in Long Beach California Elvis had bought the yacht at an auction for a reported $55,000.

The Elvis Presley Trama Center (The Med)

The Bethany Maternity Home This was one of the charities Elvis donated to many years at Christmas.

Elvis donated to these charities in the Memphis area.

Salvation Army

YMCA

Goodwill Industries

Mile-O-Dimes

Motion Picture Relief Fund

United Cerebral Palsy Association

Muscular Dystrophy Association

Elvis sponsored many teams.

Little League baseball teams

Racquetball clubs

High school football teams

Karate Schools

some other charities

St. Joseph Hospital

Humane Society

Abe Scharff YMCA

Alpine Guild

Arthritis Foundation

Ave Maria Guild home for the Aged

Baptist Childrens Home

Beale Street Elks Club

Bethany Home

Boys Club of Palm Springs

Boys Club of Phoenix Arizona

Boys Town of Memphis

Braille Institute of America

Camp Courage

Commercial Appeal Fresh Air Fund

Convent of The Good Shepard

Crippled Childrens Hospital

Cynthia Milk Fund

Duration Club Inc.

Elks Blues Bowl Committee

Elvis Presley Youth Center of Tupelo

Episcopal Home For Girls

Exchange Club

Family Service Of Memphis

Father Flanagans Boys Town of Nebraska

Foundation For The Junior Blind

Fraternal Order of Police

Girls Club Of Memphis

Goodwill Home For Children

Goodwill Industries

Happy Acres

Home For Incurables

Hospital For Crippled Adults

Howard Manor Christian Home

Jesse Mahan Center

Jewish Community Center

John Tracy Clinic

Junior League

Kennedy Hospital Christmas Fund

Kindney Foundation

Kings Daughter Trinity Center

Le Bonheur Childrens Hospital

Le Bonheur Club

Les Passes

Lions Club

Little City Of The Mid South

Los Angeles County Heart Association

Mary Galloway Home

Memphis Epilepsy Foundation

Memphis Heart Association

Memphis Hebrew Academy

Memphis Mothers Service

Memphis Press Scimitar Good Fellows

Memphis Shelby Count Council For Retarded Children

Mmephis speech and Hearing Center

Memphis Union Mission

Mid South Cancer Research

Mile O Dimes

Mothers YMCA Canteen

Muscular Dystophy

Neighborhood House

Oncological Research Foundation

Orange Mound Day Nursery

Palm Springs Jaycees

Porter Leath Childrens Home

Salvation Army

Sarah Brown YMCA

Shelby United Neighbors

Sheltered Workshop

St. Gerald Hall

St. Joseph Indian School of Chamberlain South Dakota

St. Judes Children Research Hospital

St. Peters Orphanage

The Thalians of Beverly Hills California

United Cerebal Palsy

United Fund Of The Desert Communities

Variety Club of Memphis

West Tennessee Cancer Clinic

Whitehaven Jaycees

Youth Service

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