USA Today Highlights VFW Foundation
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 10:20 PM
by West Virginia
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 7, 2008--
VFW Foundation is highlighted in today's
USA Today "Sharing in the USA" special section.
Approximately 70 charities were chosen nationally and selected based on fundraising and administrative efficiency. The VFW Foundation is one of two charities listed in the Missouri section. The foundation's mission is to manage and distribute resources to support veterans, active-duty personnel, the National Guard and Reserves, their families and communities.
Here is what USA Today wrote:
"The Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation helps military personnel and their families by providing free phone cards, financial assistance and claims assistance for veterans, foundation director Dan Shea says. The foundation has provided 9 million phone cards to troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and $2.2 million to nearly 1,600 families for unmet needs, including groceries, rent and home repair."
Charity watchdog groups like the Independent Charities of America gave the VFW Foundation a "Best of America" rating, an honor given to only 1,500 of some 50,000 groups. Charity Navigator provided the foundation with three stars and a four-star efficiency rating, the highest rating possible. The foundation also achieved full inclusion in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC #10511), due to low operating costs.
To learn more about the VFW Foundation, visit the website at
www.vfwfoundation.org.
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Forum Hot Topic: Virtual Posts
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 07:11 PM
by West Virginia
Thanks to your support the VFW WebCOM Network Membership Forum now has
10382 Posts in
3099 Topics by
1604 Members!
The hot topic as of late has been the discussion around the pros/cons of establishing a
"Virtual Post" as a means of connecting with younger Veterans. Stop by and share your
thoughts:
http://www.vfwwebcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,3260.0.html
Also the VFW WebCOM Network has established a Facebook page. Drop in a "Fan" us up.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/VFW-WebCOM-Network/25570084434
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October Survey
Monday, October 6, 2008 at 08:29 AM
by West Virginia
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2008 Veterans Day Teacher Resource Guide
Friday, October 3, 2008 at 07:15 PM
by West Virginia
The 2008 Veterans Day Teacher Resource Guide is now online. Parents and educators can download the guide as a PDF file from the VA Web site:
The guide includes: suggested activities for Veterans Day (such as a school assembly, musical performance, or flag-raising ceremony); information on how to contact veterans service organizations and staff at VA medical centers, benefits offices, and National Cemeteries; information for older students including handouts on the origins of Veterans Day, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, statistics on America’s wars, and scholarships; and subjects for younger students such as a Veterans Day maze and coloring pages. The guide, along with a Veterans Day poster, is being distributed on CD-ROM to principals at 118,000 schools nationwide. America’s veterans have shaped our history. Let’s share their example of courage and sacrifice with future generations.
Click on image to download .pdf file.
Source: VFW WebCOM Membership Forum
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VFW Salutes Passage of 2009 VA Budget
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 03:35 PM
by West Virginia
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2008--The
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is saluting the 110th Congress for providing $50.2 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs fiscal year 2009 budget.
As part of the $634 billion Continuing Resolution signed by President Bush yesterday, VA discretionary funding is increased $4.5 billion over last year, which meets Independent Budget recommendations for healthcare funding. The Independent Budget is a detailed analysis of VA operations that the VFW has co-authored for the past 22 years with
AMVETS,
Disabled American Veterans and the
Paralyzed Veterans of America.
VA budget highlights include $3.8 billion for mental healthcare, $584 million for substance abuse programs, $510 million for medical and prosthetic research, $250 million to improve access for veterans in rural areas, and additional funding for homeless grants, the hiring of 2,000 additional claims adjudicators, and to raise the mileage reimbursement rate from 28.5 to 41.5 cents per mile.
“We are very grateful to the president and to congressional leadership for keeping to their pledge to take care of our veterans,” said VFW National Commander Glen Gardner, a Vietnam veteran from Round Rock, Texas. “And we hope the delivery of an on-time budget is the start of a trend that will continue into the next administration and Congress.”
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Happy 109th Birthday VFW!
Monday, September 29, 2008 at 04:44 PM
by West Virginia
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