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| Host Chapter 863 Kerrville |
| VVAFT Board of Directors Meeting - Kerrville, February 9, 2007 |
| Galveston, June 9, 2006 |
| VVAFT Board of Directors Meeting |
| El Paso, Sept 2003 |
| A few of the VVAFT Grants & Donations |
| Lynda Greene accepting a check from VVAFT Directors Hal Thompson & Herschel Carmichael for the DeGeorge Veterans Shelter in Houston, Texas after a TSC meeting in Galveston, Texas |
| Manny Carlos VVAFT Chairman presented a check for $1000 to the VVA Texas State Council Alberto Rodriguez Scholarship Fun |
| Manuel Carlos & Ken Watterson (Marine Corps League Big D Chapter) made matching donations to Dr. Victor Westphall for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire, New Mexico |
| Jim Boyd (VVAFT's TVVN Editor) presented a $500 check to the Dallas VA Homeless Veterans Coalition for the 2006 Dallas Homeless Stand Down & again In 2007. In 2008 VVAFT sponsored two golf holes on their Golf Tournament to raise funds for the 2008 Stand Down |
| VVAFT President Bill Meeks & Vice President Don Kennedy presenting donation checks to Texas AVVA President's Sandra Womack (past) and Marilyn Rose (current) at different Texas State Council meetings |
| VVAFT President Bill Meeks presented a $500 Galveston to help with postage & shipping of the print the chapter is giving to the families of military personnel killed in action in Operations Enduring Freedom & Operation Iraqi Freedom |
VVAFT President Bill Meeks presented a check for $1000 to VVA Chapter 292 Beaumont to help with mailing of their fund raising literature for their All Veterans Memorial to built in Beaumont, Texas |
| President Bill Meeks presented a check for$750 to John Miterko, committee member of Veterans Monument Committee for the purchase of the Combat Cross sculpture from the Texas Monument Commission to raise funds to build a Vietnam Veterans Monument on the state capitol grounds in Austin, Texas |
| VVAFT purchased from the Texas Monuments Commission a sculpture to raise funds to build a Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the state capitol grounds in Austin. The $750 sculpture to be auctioned of at the Live Auction to benefit the TSC Scholarship fund |
| Receiptants of several of VVAFT's Operation Ed_U_Cate Grants for their chapter scholarship funds |
| VVAFT's Operation Ed_U-Cate is a program set up by the foundation to help Texas VVA Chapters in funding their scholarship programs. Each years for the past 5 years VVAFT holds a contest and any Texas VVA Chapter is encouraged to participate. The contest is from the June Texas State Council meeting until the next years June TSC meeting. The deadline is just prior to the VVAFT Board of Directors meeting which is held on the Friday afternoon preceding the VVA Texas State Council meeting on Saturday |
| 1st Place VVA Chapter 404 Borger- received $1000 at the TSC meeting in El Paso |
| 2nd Place VVA Chapter 574 El Paso- received $500 at TSC meeting in El Paso |
| 3rd Place VVA Chapter 292 Beaumont received $300 at TSC meeting in El Paso |
| 1st Place VVA Chapter 574 El Paso- received $1000 at the TSC meeting in Denton |
| 2nd Place VVA Chapter 292 Beaumont received $500 at TSC meeting in Denton |
| VVA Service Offices in the Dallas Veterans Affairs Hospitals |
| School Trip to Washington, D.C |
| VVAFT Board of Directors made a donation to a Texas school for a class trip to Washington, D.C. The photos above were sent to VVAFT from the students when they were at the Vietnam Memorial "The WALL" in appreciation for the foundations generous donation |
| VVAFT makes quarterly donations in the form of a continuing grant to the Texas State Council for financial support of the operation of the VVA Service Offices at the Dallas VA Medical Center & Kerrville VA Medical Center, as well as other VVA VSO's around the state of Texas that do not work out of a VVA office at either hospital. This is a line-item grant and can only be used for the VVA Texas VSO Program |
| VVA Service Representative Jim Hallbauer helping veterans with their VA Claims at the VVA Service Office at the Dallas VA Medical Center Jim Hallbauer is the VVA Texas State Council's Chief Service Officer in charge of all of the VVA Service Officers in Texas |
| VVAFT Board of Directors Meeting - El Paso, June 29, 2007 |
| VVA Chapter 574 El Paso Hosted the Texas State Council Meeting June 28-29, 2007 |
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