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/Chairman 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. Two of our elected officers serve on VVA National committees, one as the chair of the VVA Membership
committee, the other as VVA National Press Club as Editor-in-Chief. Which is a sub-committee of the VVA Public Affairs
Committee . 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 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 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 if you will 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 seven (7) members are founding members of VVAFT. The other four (4)
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, he is a non-voting advisory member of the board of directors (except
in the case sited above as the president is 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.) & publish a VVA TSC Newsletter in-between issues of the newspaper.
- 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 NOT the RFP)
- Support financially the VVA Service Officer Program at the Dallas VA Medical Center that 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, 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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