About VVAFT

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

need, and to support the service programs of

Vietnam Veterans of America

(VVA)

Texas State

Council (

TSC)

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 serve

on VVA National

Board of Directors and is the

chair of the

VVA

National

Membership

Affairs C

ommittee

. 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

he Editor of

the Texas Vietnam Veterans News.

One of our elected officers serves

as a

VVA

hapter

resident and is

Corporate

Attorney, and three of our directors also serve as

Texas

VVA

hapter

residents.

Positions on VVAFT's board of director are open every two years during the odd number years at our

biennial

elections.

considered to become a member of the VVAFT Board of Directors you have to be a member in

good standing with

VVA

in the

tate 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

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

(

) members are

founding members of

VVAFT. The other

six

(

)

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 a

lready

n 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

hand on issues pertaining to veterans

and that is the reason we

have in

our by-law

that the elected TSC President,

a non-voting advisory

member of the board of directors

(except

the case sited above

the president

was

already sitting on the board as a voting member).

VVAFT has obtained the assistance and services of a paid profession

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

Veterans

Affairs. VVA Service

Officers

aggressively

advocate

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)

the

Internal

Revenue

Code

1986

(or

the

corresponding

provisions

of any

future

United

States

Internal

Revenue

law), including,

but

not

limited

to,

the

following

purposes.

The

corporation

shall

organized

and

operated

exclusively

public

charitable

veterans

service

organization

promote

the

social

welfare

the

community,

assist

disabled,

needy

and

homeless

veterans

and

members

the

U.S.

Armed

Forces,

their

dependents,

widows

widowers,

and

orphans

deceased

veterans,

and

provide

entertainment,

care

and

assistance

hospitalized

veterans

members

the

U.S.

Armed

Forces;

carry

out

rograms to

perpetuate

the

memory

deceased

veterans

and

members

the

U.S.

Armed Forces

and

comfort

their

survivors;

conduct

programs

for

religious,

charitable,

scientific,

and educational

activities

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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