Our Mission
Our mission is a broad one and includes:
- Providing assistance with medical expenses, including but not limited to,
- purchasing medical equipment directly for veteran use and/or funding
- unpaid medical expenses;
- Supplying Retro-Fits and devices for existing homes to assist disabled veterans
- so that he or she can continue to dwell in his or her home and in some cases providing temporary and/or permanent quality affordable housing for veterans;
- Providing funding and advocacy to support families of deceased veterans,
- including but not limited to, paying utilities, temporary mortgage assistance,
- burial assistance, as well as legal and educational advocacy;
- Providing support for training and other employment search related activities
- and services, including but not limited to, employment counseling and
- educating the general public in the employment capabilities of veterans;
- Providing college, university, and vocational school scholarships for veterans or, in the case where the service member is killed in combat, making eligible the spouse and/or children of the veteran for those scholarships.
- Supporting fundraising activities of American Veterans Aid Fund and other non-governmental veteran assistance organizations.
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