Vietnam Veterans Assistance Foundation of Texas, Inc, (VVAFT)
is a Texas-based Publicly Supported Charitable Foundation a 509(a)(1) under IRS Code 501(c)(3).
Incorporated in the State of Texas on March 14, 1997 (File #01437671010) and converted on November 23, 1997 to a
Publicly Supported Charitable Foundation and is in good standing with the State of Texas,
AS SUCH, YOUR DONATION IS FULLY TAX DEDUCTIBLE.
VVAFT has a Federal Tax ID Number but is unwilling to display it in the public domain.
If you need the Federal Tax ID # or a copy of I.R.S. Form 990 please contact the VVAFT President
whose address and phone number are listed on the Home Page & Board of Directors Page.
VVAFT primarily serves as a non-profit-non-membership veterans service organization designed to help veterans
in need, and to support the service programs of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) Texas State Council ( TSC)
as well as helping to improve our communities. All of our board of director members are also members of VVA &
VVA Texas
State Council. Our Officers and Board members serve at the local, state and national level of Vietnam Veterans of
America. One of our elected officers serves on VVA National Board of Directors and is the chair of the VVA National
Membership Affairs Committee. Another officer was a past member of the VVA National Public Affairs Committee, as
the chair of a
sub-committee of the VVA Public Affairs Committee as the VVA National Press Club Editor-in-Chief . Two of our elected
officers and one elected director serves as elected officers of the VVA Texas State Council and one also is the Editor of
the Texas Vietnam Veterans News. One of our elected officers serves as a VVA Chapter President and is a Corporate
Attorney, and three of our directors also serve as Texas VVA Chapter Presidents.
Positions on VVAFT's board of director are open every two years during the odd number years at our biennial elections.
To be considered to become a member of the VVAFT Board of Directors you have to be a member in good standing
with
VVA in the State of Texas, submit your resume, a copy of your DD-214 and a signed SF-180. After a review by the
current VVAFT Board you will be notified to come before the current Board of Directors to state why you should be
accepted on
the board. However keep in mind that the number of directors is limited to eleven (11) unless by motion and approval of
board to increase the size of the board of directors. Of the eleven (11) members of the current board five (5) members
are founding members of VVAFT. The other six (6) have been added over the years.
There is also two other positions on the board as non-voting members. The Texas Vietnam Veterans News Assistant
Editor and the VVA TSC President as a liaison between the TSC and VVAFT. However, if the TSC President is already
an elected member of VVAFT as is the current situation, he has voting rights as a board member. However, this will not
always be the case. VVAFT and the TSC work hand-in-hand on issues pertaining to veterans and that is the reason we
have in our by-law that the elected TSC President, as a non-voting advisory member of the board of directors (except in
the case sited above as the president was already sitting on the board as a voting member).
VVAFT has obtained the assistance and services of a paid professional fund raiser, to assist in our fund
raising program:
Associated Community Services, Inc.
29777 Telegraph Road/ Suite 300 / Southfield, MI 48034
- Publish the "TEXAS VIETNAM VETERANS NEWS" - (a 36 page newspaper as a service for the VVA Texas State
Council published three times a year.)
- Assist financially the VVA Texas State Council & Texas VVA Chapters
- To assist financially veterans, veterans organizations, and veterans related activities on a case-by-case basis. Issues to
be considered but not limited to are the following: [Disabled, ill, needy, homeless veterans, families of the afore named
veterans, and Education, Etc.] (Individuals Use Individual Specific Assistance Form ONLY and NOT the RFP)
- Support financially the VVA TSC Service Officer Program which helps veterans file disability claims with the
Department
of Veterans Affairs. VVA Service Officers aggressively advocate on behalf of the veteran with the Department of
Veterans Affairs (DVA).
- To seek full access to quality health care for veterans.
- Create a positive public perception of Vietnam veterans.
- Support the next generation of America's war veterans.
Excerpts from the VVAFT Articles of Incorporation on file with the
Texas Secretary of State - Corporation Commission
- The Corporation shall engage in any lawful act or activity for which non-profit organizations may be organized
under the provisions of the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act.
- It shall be organized and operated exclusively for such purposes and activities as permitted by Section 501 (c)
(3)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (or the corresponding provisions of any future United States Internal
Revenue law), including, but not limited to, the following purposes. The corporation shall be organized and
operated exclusively
as a public charitable veterans service organization to promote the social welfare of the community, assist
disabled, needy and homeless veterans and members of the U.S. Armed Forces, their dependents, widows or
widowers, and orphans of deceased veterans, and provide entertainment, care and assistance to hospitalized
veterans or members of the U.S. Armed Forces; carry out programs to perpetuate the memory of deceased
veterans and members of the
U.S. Armed Forces and comfort their survivors; conduct programs for religious, charitable, scientific, and
educational activities of a patriotic nature, and provide social and recreational activities.
- In furtherance of such purposes, the Corporation shall have the full power and authority:
- To publish, conduct, sponsor, promote and support publications, periodicals, lectures,seminars, meetings and
discussions on matters related to the forgoing purposes; The Corporation, generally, shall assist federal, state
and local governments and agencies and assisting and cooperating with said governments to lessen the
burden and to facilitate their services to assist veterans, their families, their dependents, their widows,
widowers and orphans.
- To acquire or receive from any individual, firm, association, corporation, trust, foundation or any governmental
subdivisions, unit or agency, by deed, gift, purchase, bequest, devise, appointment, or otherwise, cash, securities
and other property tangible or intangible, real or personal, and to hold, administer, manage, invest, reinvest, and
disburse the principal and income for the purposes hereof;
- To receive and maintain a fund or funds, to invest or reinvest such fund or funds and to apply the income and
principal of any funds received to promote the goals and purposes set out herein; and
- To perform all other acts necessary or incidental to the above and to do whatever is deemed necessary, useful,
advisable, or conductive, directly or indirectly, to carry out any of the purposes of the corporation, as set forth in
these Articles of Incorporation, including the exercise of all other powers and authority enjoyed by non-profit
corporations generally by virtue of the provisions of the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act (within and subject to
the limitations of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code). The Corporation shall be neither organized nor
operated for pecuniary gain or profit. No part of the net earnings of the Corporation shall inure to the benefit of,
or be distributable to, any director, or officer of the Corporation, but the Corporation shall be authorized and
empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in
furtherance of the purposes as set forth in Article Four.
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