Causes: Mental Health, Mental Health Disorders, Military & Veterans Organizations, Philanthropy, Philanthropy, Charity & Voluntarism Promotion, Veterans
Mission: Founded in 1978, vietnam veterans of america is the only national vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to vietnam-era veterans and their families. Vva works to create a new identity for this generation of veterans, and to change public perception of vietnam veterans.
Programs: Membership affairs - vva membership is now over 74,700 with 61% of these members having committed to vva by becoming life members. In the past fiscal year, 17 new vva chapters have been chartered. The membership department is moving to use electronic communications for many of its formerly paper functions. These efforts include: electronic roster distribution, e-mail acknowledgement of state council and chapter annual election and financial reports and building an e-mail membership chairs distribution list.
government affairs - reached out to members of congress to advocate for the introduction and passage of the toxic exposure research act of 2015.H. R. 1769 in the house and s. 901 in the senate. Focused on congressional testimony and personal interactions on the need to "fix" several facets of the department of veterans affairs, e. G. And to extend benefits for c-123 and so-called blue water navy veterans exposed to dioxin and to open the va's formulary for pharmaceuticals to include newer drugs for maladies such as hepatitis c and diabetes mellitus and to ensure that va medical centers and outpatient clinics have enough qualified mental health clinicians staff; and to chang the often anti-veteran corporate culture of the va and to work on access and quality of care services for women veterans and to seek an evaluation of federal and community efforts to eliminate veteran homelessness. Advocated for protections against the "predatory" practices of certain institutions of higher learning for veterans accessing their earned benefits under the post-9/11 gi bill. Vva was instrumental in securing an executive order on helping "police" predatory entities that offer worthless degrees. Initiated and/or proceeded with lawsuits on behalf of veterans wrongfully discharged because of a "personality disorder, " and other vets involved in the testing of toxic substances. Continued to push the addition of a veterans economic opportunities administration in the department of veterans affairs. Leading effort to move the veterans employment & training service to valeading effort to "clean up" verification of service disabled veteran owned businesses and veteran owned businesses, and move this function to the sba to apply government wide
vva veteran - now in its 35th year, the vva veteran and its associated media-the online magazine, www. Vvaveteran. Org; facebook. Vvaveteran. Org; and its two arts blogs, arts of war and books in review ii-are committed to presenting clear, lucid, accurate, informative, and entertaining reports on issues and subjects about and relevant to america's veterans-especially its vietnam veterans. The magazine remains the organization's best communication tool, its best recruitment tool, its best retention tool, and its best marketing tool. Our goal is to educate, to excite, and to energize our membership while broadcasting to the outside world the important work that vva does. To do that, we have assembled a large roster of skilled writers, photographers, and illustrators from across the country. With a fraction of the staff and a fraction of the budget of comparable publications, we produce the best veterans magazine, bar none. That fact was underscored in 2013 and again in 2014 by the presentation of apex awards to the vva veteran for magazine excellence. During fy2015 the vva veteran received the prestigious apex award for publication excellence. The award recognized overall excellence in the category of "magazines, journals, and tabloids over 32 pages. " in the previous year, we were awarded for the writing series, dien bien phu from the american, vietnamese, and french perspectives. During fy2015, we produced six issues of the veteran-each on time and under budget. At the same time, we produced an electronic version of each issue that was reconfigured for easy access on the internet and that takes into consideration the different demographic-younger readers and researchers--that turns to www. Vvaveteran. Org. Staff maintained with regular updates its vva veteran facebook page. Books in brief ii, which grew out of the book review column in the magazine, passed the milestone of five hundred books reviewed on the web. Additionally, arts of war, originally in the magazine, has greatly expanded on the web. Each issue of the magazine attempts to cover a wide variety of issues of interest to vietnam veterans.
Mission: Founded in 1978, vietnam veterans of america is the only national vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to vietnam-era veterans and their families. Vva works to create a new identity for this generation of veterans, and to change public perception of vietnam veterans.
Programs: Membership affairs - vva membership is now over 74,700 with 61% of these members having committed to vva by becoming life members. In the past fiscal year, 17 new vva chapters have been chartered. The membership department is moving to use electronic communications for many of its formerly paper functions. These efforts include: electronic roster distribution, e-mail acknowledgement of state council and chapter annual election and financial reports and building an e-mail membership chairs distribution list.
government affairs - reached out to members of congress to advocate for the introduction and passage of the toxic exposure research act of 2015.H. R. 1769 in the house and s. 901 in the senate. Focused on congressional testimony and personal interactions on the need to "fix" several facets of the department of veterans affairs, e. G. And to extend benefits for c-123 and so-called blue water navy veterans exposed to dioxin and to open the va's formulary for pharmaceuticals to include newer drugs for maladies such as hepatitis c and diabetes mellitus and to ensure that va medical centers and outpatient clinics have enough qualified mental health clinicians staff; and to chang the often anti-veteran corporate culture of the va and to work on access and quality of care services for women veterans and to seek an evaluation of federal and community efforts to eliminate veteran homelessness. Advocated for protections against the "predatory" practices of certain institutions of higher learning for veterans accessing their earned benefits under the post-9/11 gi bill. Vva was instrumental in securing an executive order on helping "police" predatory entities that offer worthless degrees. Initiated and/or proceeded with lawsuits on behalf of veterans wrongfully discharged because of a "personality disorder, " and other vets involved in the testing of toxic substances. Continued to push the addition of a veterans economic opportunities administration in the department of veterans affairs. Leading effort to move the veterans employment & training service to valeading effort to "clean up" verification of service disabled veteran owned businesses and veteran owned businesses, and move this function to the sba to apply government wide
vva veteran - now in its 35th year, the vva veteran and its associated media-the online magazine, www. Vvaveteran. Org; facebook. Vvaveteran. Org; and its two arts blogs, arts of war and books in review ii-are committed to presenting clear, lucid, accurate, informative, and entertaining reports on issues and subjects about and relevant to america's veterans-especially its vietnam veterans. The magazine remains the organization's best communication tool, its best recruitment tool, its best retention tool, and its best marketing tool. Our goal is to educate, to excite, and to energize our membership while broadcasting to the outside world the important work that vva does. To do that, we have assembled a large roster of skilled writers, photographers, and illustrators from across the country. With a fraction of the staff and a fraction of the budget of comparable publications, we produce the best veterans magazine, bar none. That fact was underscored in 2013 and again in 2014 by the presentation of apex awards to the vva veteran for magazine excellence. During fy2015 the vva veteran received the prestigious apex award for publication excellence. The award recognized overall excellence in the category of "magazines, journals, and tabloids over 32 pages. " in the previous year, we were awarded for the writing series, dien bien phu from the american, vietnamese, and french perspectives. During fy2015, we produced six issues of the veteran-each on time and under budget. At the same time, we produced an electronic version of each issue that was reconfigured for easy access on the internet and that takes into consideration the different demographic-younger readers and researchers--that turns to www. Vvaveteran. Org. Staff maintained with regular updates its vva veteran facebook page. Books in brief ii, which grew out of the book review column in the magazine, passed the milestone of five hundred books reviewed on the web. Additionally, arts of war, originally in the magazine, has greatly expanded on the web. Each issue of the magazine attempts to cover a wide variety of issues of interest to vietnam veterans.
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