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Members may be dismissed summarily from membership
for failure to support the purposes or lawful activities of the Association. Individuals and Entities may also apply for associate ("honorary"),
non-voting membership, which is an honorific bestowed by the Association for a contribution to one or more purposes of the
Association. Associate members are asked to express their sympathy for the Mission Statement of the Association.
National and local officers, all of whom serve without any
remuneration or compensation, come from the voting membership, and election to the position of National Association Director requires
that the nomination for the position of National Association Director be seconded by 250 voting members of
the National Association by signed petition to be received, postage prepaid mail, by October 31 of the calendar year
immediately preceding the calendar year during which the next National Convention shall be held, addressed to the United
States Navy Veterans Association, Elections Section, 1718 M St NW, Ste 275, Washington Dc 20036. Elections for the offices
of National Association Director are held at the National Conventions of the Association. Further information about the
form of a nominating petition for National Association Director and procedures for the election of National Association
and State Chapter Directors can be obtained by voting members by calling the Membership Section of the National Association
at (202) 736-1725 or by emailing the Association at Membership@NavyVets.org.
Only natural persons may serve as officers.
Annual membership dues for new members are, currently for 2009-2010, $250.00 for a voting member (voting membership dues may be reduced or waived by the Association upon a written showing by the applicant evidencing financial hardship, and are also automatically waived in full for any applicant voting member currently serving on active duty with any branch of the US Armed Forces, and for any applicant voting member discharged from the US Armed Forces on or before September 5, 1946) and $50.00 for an associate non-voting supportive member. Initial annual dues, which must be remitted along with the initial Membership Application, cover the remainder of the calendar year in which the initial Application is submitted, as well as the subsequent calendar year. The fiscal year of the Association and all its State Chapters is the calendar year. After the initial full year of membership, members are expected to pay their renewal annual dues, or to remit a request for full or partial exemption therefrom, without specific notice, other than herein. Renewal annual dues are due and payable as of January 1. Checks or money orders for initial dues are not deposited or processed until the Application for Membership is approved. Checks or money orders from non-qualifying membership applicants are returned to the applicant unprocessed. Community Foundation Fund Members and Navy Eagle Members (see below) may, depending on their qualifications, be classified as either voting or non-voting supportive members. When e-mailing the Association a request for a Membership Application at USN@NavyVets.org , please be sure to include your mailing address or fax number as the Association does not currently have the capability to e-mail you an Application. You can, however, also either download or print the Membership Application right off the Membership Application Page. As a private, non-profit, tax-exempt war veterans' organization, the Association receives all its funds from its dues, contributions and any advertising it may have in its publications. It receives no funding from, nor is it officially affiliated with, any agency of any government. Unsolicited contributions in support of the Mission of the Association are always welcomed and may be mailed to us at: US Navy Veterans Association Attn: Internet 1783 Forest Dr #300
Annapolis MD 21401 It is easy...very easy... to dedicate your contribution
to a particular service branch or to a specific purpose in our Mission Statement - Just make a notation on the memo
line of your tax deductible check and we will see to it that your contribution is applied to the Mission Statement
purpose or service branch you designated.
From time to time we do solicitation drives, both volunteer and non-volunteer, on a State-by-State basis, for contributions. If you were contacted, and need a personal verification from us that it was us who contacted you, please leave us a VOICEMAIL at our National Headquarters telephone number found on our Contact Us page- (202) 736-1725. We apologize that we do not have a dedicated line with a live operator 40 hours per week for such verifications, and are deeply hurt personally that we are not able to talk to you immediately live, but that would cost the Association a minimum of $80,000 per year to accomplish and, as an all-volunteer organization, that is an administrative cost we are not willing to currently accept. If you leave us a voicemail, one of our volunteers will verify your contact ASAP. We do not return anonymous calls left on our voicemails,
e.g. "This is Mr. Jones. Somebody please call me back." A detailed subject line message is required so we know to whom to
refer your call within the Association. Likewise, we do not open anonymous emails for fear of virus infection. A legitimate
subject line spelled out correctly in the English language is required.
Every donor contacted by one of our fundraising drives
receives in the mail, before any donation is made, a full written packet. This packet contains information about the Association
and the campaign and, also, a pledge slip with our official logo on it and a legal disclosure statement. The statement is
very important and, along with the other written material sent, should be read by every donor before actually donating. To view a sample Association fundraising pledge slip and disclosure, click
here.
Neither the National Association
nor any of its State Chapters does fundraising campaigns in conjunction with any non-profit organization (NPO) outside
the Association family, other than governmental administered federated campaigns for public employees only. On an Association
family campaign, the words "United States Navy Veterans Association" will appear in the title of the organization in writing,
along with a clear imprint of the official logo of the Association. Neither the National Association nor any of its subordinate
organizations has any cross-controlling relationship of any kind with any other NPO, regardless of whether the other NPO may
utilize the same CPC or not. The fact that an established non-volunteer Call Center retained by the Association elects
to contract with more than one NPO for fundraising purposes is both a right given such a Call Center under the Contracts
Clause of the United States Constitution, and also entirely proper in the eyes of the Association. Such a practice also has
the additional benefit of permitting an NPO to research and investigate the bona fides of such a Call Center through previous
and existing clients, something urged on all NPOs in advance by numerous government regulatory bodies.
There is no request, plea, entreaty, demand,or invitation,
or an attempt to make a request, plea, entreaty, demand or invitation, explicitly or by implication, made on this website
for any contribution to the Association or to any other group. The site, instead, and in part, presents some details of our
Veterans' Outreach Programs and other not-for-profit programs, including our educational programs, information
about our fundraising activities, provides contact information, and leaves the act of giving entirely, and without solicitation
or invitation, up to the individual reader.
There are at least 200 Al Quaida cells in the United States as of 2009 and, as part of all our solicitation campaigns in specific States, we urge the public to remember the service of all our Armed Forces abroad, to remember America, and to be vigilant for America. "Being vigiilant" means, in case there is any doubt, reporting activities to law enforcement in all cases where one reasonably believes there is a terror threat to America posed by that activity. We ask the same question of the American public who are contacted on our drives, and the public in general, as the American Country song, a question which is also an exhortation to action: Have you forgotten when those towers fell, when our country was under fire, and where our heroes fell? How their families live through hell every day? Don't tell anybody not to worry about bin Laden. Have you forgotten? Contributions can be and are used only in accordance with the Mission Statement of the Association registered with the IRS, and may be earmarked, as we said above, by the donor for any purpose mentioned in the Association's Mission Statement on our Mission Statement Page. However, contributions received from non-volunteer solicitation drives ('paid solicitor'campaigns) we do (while they may focus on a particular purposive activity or activities, and have at least a plurality of the net charitable receipts from such a drive expended on that stated particular purposive activity or activities), and unearmarked contributions raised by a volunteer drive not specifying a particular Association charitable activity, go to support, to some degree, ALL the charitable purposes of the Association reflected in the published Mission Statement, including veteran advocacy, public education and information dissemination carried out as part of the drive itself. Charitable receipts from such drives are divided among those purposes, and the Association's purposive activities, discretionarily by the respective Executive Boards of the National Association and its State Chapters. Any oral representation to the contrary is invalid and will not be recognized by, nor is it binding upon, the Association. It is also reasonable, we should point out, that any donor should understand,
in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in Illinois ex rel. Madigan v. Telemarketing Associates,
53 U.S. 600, 155 L.Ed.2d 793, 123 S.Ct. 1829 (2003), that when we say "contributions are used...," we refer of course
to net contributions after deduction for legitimate non-programmatic expenses. These expenses do vary, sometime widely,
especially from one solicitation drive to another, but as applied to the Association's or a State Chapter's annual receipts
for the year as a whole, are always a matter of public record with the appropriate state agency of every state in which the
Association or a State Chapter carries out public fundraising. They are also available, transparently, by going to www.guidestar.org, and clicking on the IRS Annual Information Return report you wish to see. Guidestar's
written statement that certain State Chapters' Returns are not available is, however, inaccurate. The Returns for all such
State Chapters listed are to be found jointly in the Group Return on Guidestar. You may also access our Annual Report
by also going onto the Annual Report page.
Neither the Association nor any of its State Chapters does public
fundraising campaigns to specifically benefit a geographical locality, e.g., a county or city, and any statement to the contrary
made by any fundraiser for an Association campaign should be reported to the Association immediately for corrective action. Funds raised, however, by a State Chapter
campaign, or in a particular state, are 'localized' to benefit veterans and/or active duty U.S. Armed Forces members from
that state without discrimination relating to the area of the state they are from and, in fact, it has been
the long-standing policy of the National Association and all its State Chapters that net monies raised in a particular
state, or received from residents of a particular state are spent on or for the benefit of one or more Mission Statement beneficiary
classes who are residents of that state, or on Mission Statement activities in that state.
While we're on the subject of contributions, we should also point out that,
although the Association is registered and in good standing with the I.R.S. and every state requiring registration in
which we publicly fundraise, as well as with Guidestar, as well as being the recipient of numerous awards and endorsements listed throughout this Site for our
philanthropic activities and programs, the opinion of the Association is that claimed omniscience, as to what is or is not
a "legitimate" charity, as with all claims of omniscience, is a province best left to Nature and Nature's God, and the individual
contributor.
It is an arrogance of power for any entity, or person, governmental or
non-governmental, to claim otherwise. And that is a claim, if made, which certainly should not vest with any self-righteous
or hypocritical self-appointed private "charity watchdog;" politician, or governmental agency controlled by one.
The Association and all of its State Chapters are proud of the fact that
we are currently running, nationally, at more than 80% of all our net annual expenses going toward charitable program services, meaning, true underlying charitable programs
like our care kits program for our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, our assistance programs for needy homeless
or sick veterans in medical facilities or on the streets of America, and our education campaigns onPatriotism, National
Security issues, Veterans' issues, and Navy issues. Websites run by particular State Attorneys General which imply
the contrary, by cherry-picking particular fundraising campaigns, and only quoting figures from those campaigns as opposed
to the total financial picture for the Association as a whole, are, in our opinion, misrepresentational per se.
If you are reading their figures, the Association advises you to check with us, or Guidestar, for a full and accurate description of the numbers presented.
That's our opinion. And we're sticking to it.
All contributions to the Association are fully tax-deductible. We do not give or accept quid-pro-quo contibutions. All our activities are specifically approved by the IRS as tax-exempt activities for which tax-deductible contributions are also approved.
Neither Voting nor Associate Membership is ever conferred
solely for making a monetary contribution to the Association.
DO NOT CALL LIST No charitable exempt organization in the United States is subject to the Federal Trade Commission's Telephone Solicitation Regulations relating to the National Do Not Call Registry. However, to have your name and telephone number placed on our internal Do Not Call List in and for any state in which the Association does a public fundraising drive at any time, even before any first telephone call or contact is ever made, no questions asked, you may call, toll-free, 1-888-665-9359, or reach us in Washington at 202-736-1725, or call the pertinent State Chapter at its telephone number listed on the State Chapters Page, or email us at DoNotCall@Navyvets.org, If you email us, or connect with the Voice Mail and simply say or write: "Do Not Call," your full name (which should be spelled out slowly), and your full telephone number including area code, it will be done. (Takes about 24-72 hours.) It's as simple as that. If you wish to quote this paragraph when you do so, please feel free, but, at the same time, include the following thought as a courtesy to all REAL Americans: those who denounce, in the name of pubic policy, the First Amendment right of others to free speech, especially those fundraising for the vibrancy of any and all American non-profit causes, need to beware that that same public policy may be turned on them someday to deny them THEIR same freedoms of speech and expression, as they were in Hitler Germany, in Stalinist Russia, and as Al Quaida seeks to do today in Iraq and Afghanistan and throughout the Muslim world.
Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Pat Robertson,Virginia Beach, Virginia, 2008 It's American to disagree, and the Association certainly believes that our ability to disagree with each other as Americans is one of America's greatest strengths, and certainly not a weakness. But it is also American to come together in the face of a challenge, and America is certainly challenged today.
These girls featured above from Girl Scout Troop _04_6 in Middlesex County, New Jersey, wrote to us at the U.S. Navy Veterans Association right after Thanksgiving Day, 2008. They wanted to thank the Association for the good work it had done that they had seen with regard to our care kits program for all of our members from our U.S. Armed Forces serving overseas in the War on Terror. Many of their parents had been solicited by the Association for this particular cause, and all of them willingly gave, without complaint, and then sent their daughters to have their picture taken thanking the Association for both its fundraising drive and the care kits program, and thanking our men and women from all our US Armed Forces for what they are doing for America in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here is what some of their letters said (with original spelling): “Our country is free because of what the U.S. Navy Vets have done for it. God bless you. We are praying for you. P.S. I hope our soldiers try to keep the peace in Iraq, even though they are not our ali.” - Albina Z. “Dear USNVA , we all pray for you. I am in fourth grade. I am nine years old. We hope you win the war for the USA! (Remember beat the bad dudes!)” - Love, April C.M. “Thank you, USNVA. My name is Victoria and I am in the fourth grade. I play softball and basketball. My favorite color is blue. I live in New Jersey. Go America.” - Victoria C. “Dear USNVA, My name is Rebecca. I am in fourth grade. I go to school in New Jersey . Thank you for fighting for everybody in the United States in your programs. - Rebecca “Dear USNVA, Thank you for making this country safe. My name is Rebecca Angela. I am a fourth grade girl growing up in New Jersey. My grandfather was in the Navy. He fought in World War II and the Korren Conflict. He even did the SECRET SACO mission! He met my grandmother there. Thank you again.” - Rebecca Angela B. “To a Sailor, I live in New Jersey, my name is Cheyenne. I am in fourth grade, Math is my favorite subject. I also go to Hebrew school. Stay safe and have a good. Thank you for fighting for us. - Cheyenne “To our Soldiers and Sailors, Beat the bad people. I am in fourth grade. I’m a person. Thank you for serving.” Sara also attached a drawing which you can see in the photo above. It shows a tank of a soldier shooting a shell on the left hand side. And on the right hand side in yellow she’s drawn an explosion which shows little stick figures falling out of it. Underneath the tank she has written ’You’ (meaning one of our soldiers) and underneath the explosion with the little stick people falling out of it, she has written ‘Iraq people’. -Love, Sara “Dear USNVA, thank you so much for what you have done for our country. I have three other brothers and sisters. That makes four children in a family, WHOA! Remember, beat da bad dudes until they pass out. Go America! Pleage of alligance: I pleage alligance to the flag of the United States of America, and the republic witch it stands. One nation under God in the devisible with liberty and justice for all. Hand on your heart.” -Angela M. “Dear USNVA, my name is Kaitlyn and I am in fourth grade. In my math class we’re learning about right acute and obtuse angles. Today we had a test on angles. I worked really hard so I could get a good grade. But not as hard as you are working to help our soldiers and sailors in Iraq. Thank you again for helping our country!” -Kaitlyn “Dear USNVA and Soldiers, my name is Kaitlyn. I’m in the eighth grade. I take Spanish I. I’m also in Karate-Shin Ku Ru. I currently rank with an orange belt. I also play the trumpet. I hope you all have an awesome and blessed Thanksgiving. Jesus is watching out for you!” -Your Friend, Kaitlyn “Dear USNVA and Soldiers, My name is Priscilla Ann. I’m in fourth grade. My favorite sport is soccer. I am in first place. I feel your pain when you are trying to help our soldiers and nobody seems to care. P.S.: Thanksgiving!! happy. -Priscilla N. So, America and especially those of you out there who complain and whine about your so called rights of privacy not to be solicited for a good cause by a good charity, and that that so-called privacy trumps the right of such charities to solicit and to fundraise, remember the eyes of these little girls. Remember what they are saying to you about your attitude toward fundraising, or towards the United States Navy Veterans Association and what it has done and is doing. If you think that those former rights trump the latter in the United States legally, while we are willing very politely to accommodate you on our Do Not Call list providing you simply follow reasonable and legitimate procedures to do so and even though we are not required to do so, and you still believe that your right not to be solicited trumps a worthwhile charity’s right to solicit, our advice to you is simple: Our members stand with these little girls, and our advice to you is: Bring It On! Remember also, that since 1998 in our public fundraising drives in the United States of America, the United States Navy Veteran Association has had over 2 million individual and separate contributors , not a single one of which was a member of the Association. All of these people gave willingly to the causes that we have historically represented, and do still represent today, and will continue to represent in the future. Each one of them did so by complimenting us on the fundraising drives that we do, have done, and will continue to do. Not one of them complained with some hyped-up fictional complaint about how they were wronged merely because they were solicited. We receive emails and letters everyday citing these anonymous slam and slander-mongering sites on which so-called Americans are permitted to write in anonymously and then leave complaints about fundraising drives simply because they don’t like fundraising, or because they don’t like telephone fundraising, or because they don’t like the group which is fundraising to them or has attempted to fundraise to them. While there may be approximately 250 of such complaints against us specifically that can be looked up online, as of June, 2009, all of them are anonymous, and most of them, apparently adults, cannot even spell in the English language, and one cannot even find out information on WHOIS as to who owns the site or set up the site in the first place. As you can see from the above numbers those complainants are sorely, sorely, outnumbered by the total number of our individual and proud contributors in the United States of America. It will be a cold day in heck, and you can read our lips, before we apologize to any such complainant, and we will meet them any time and any place they want in this country to dispute their particular allegations or point of view. That assumes, of course, that they want to come out from the rock that they’re hiding under by leaving anonymous complaints in the first place. These little girls are true patriots. And those who suggest, say or imply that legitimate nonprofit organizations in the United States of America should not be permitted to solicit, or should be permitted to solicit in a manner that only pleases the complainant, that manner meaning the effective denial of the right of such a nonprofit to solicit and to solicit aggressively, are not. That’s our position. That is the legal and constitutional position of the United States Supreme Court in the Riley decision in 1988. Our members are also Americans. And so say we all. When the dust clears, we will be the ones left standing. As we have been since 1927. And since 1775. One little girl wrote to us and said that she was sending us her last five dollars out of her allowance for our care kits campaign. She said that she was going to spend this money on Christmas gifts for her brother and sister but that, instead, she felt that the care kits campaign that we do, of which she was told about by her mother and father, was a more worthwhile endeavor to spend her last dollar on. She did not complain or whine that she could not pay her other bills. She did not complain or whine that she was just a child and should not be asked for a contribution. The Association graciously accepted her contribution, even though we had not directly solicited it from her. This little girl is a REAL American. For the relatively few of you who feel otherwise than this little girl does, while we most certainly will accommodate you on our Do Not Call List upon your request, you also have the most humble condolences of the Association. ... "(a) FINDINGS. - The United States Senate finds the following: (1) President John F. Kennedy said, 'The raising of extraordinarily large sums of money, given voluntarily and freely by millions of our fellow Americans, is a unique American tradition...Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely...call it what you like, but is truly a jewel of an American tradition.' (2) Americans gave more than $300,000,000,000 to charitable causes in 2007, an amount equal to roughly 2 percent of the gross domestic product. (3) The vast majority of those donations, roughly 75 percent or $229,000,000,000, came from individuals. (4) Studies have shown that Americans give far more to charity than the people of any other industrialized nation - more than twice as much, measured as a share of gross domestic product, than the citizens of Great Britain, and 10 times more than the citizens of france. (5) 7 out of 10 American households donate to charities to support a wide range of religious, educational, cultural, health care, and environmental goals. (6) These charities provide innumerable valuable public services to society's most vulnerable citizens during difficult economic times. (7) Congress has provided incentives through the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage charitable giving by allowing individuals to deduct contributions made to tax-exempt charities. (8) 41,000,000 American households, constituting 86 percent of taxpayers who itemize deductions, took advantage of this deduction to give to the charities of their choice. (b) SENSE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE. - It is the sense of the Senate that Congress should preserve the income tax deduction for charitable contributions through the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and look for additional ways to encourage charitable giving." - Passed by the United States Senate (78-20) March 26, 2009 In opposition to the wishes of President Obama
"An article in the New York Times, on March 26, summarizing a study by the Nonprofit Finance Fund, led to this headline: Financial Safety Net of Nonprofit Organizations is Fraying. 'Organizations are facing deficits, are running out of money, are seeing reduced contributions and grants, lack reserves, and are facing greater demands for services.' This article contains the observation that there is a 'growing belief' in the nonprofit world that 'government and the public do not understand the role [the sector] plays in American society.' Truer words have not been written. It's easier and more advantageous, especially for politicians and their staff, to bash charities than support them." - Bruce R. Hopkins, Esq. The U.S.' most pre-eminent nonprofit Attorney-at-Law since 1973 Nonprofit Counsel Newsletter, Vol. 26. No. 6, June 2009
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You can also contact us to have your name put on our internal Do Not Call List by using any of the contact information on our Contact Us Page. Please DO NOT USE the Contribution Processing Center addresses listed on the State Chapters Page to mail in a written Do Not Contact request. The Contribution Processing Centers are not set up to process such requests, and will neither process those requests or any other general correspondence for the Association sent to such a Center. Less than 10% of the charities in the United States are as accomodating as the Association is with regard to the ease with which you can gain access to our Do Not Contact feature. In fact, most do not offer it at all. Likewise, the Association will investigate and report back to you any specific allegations made with regard
to any solicitation of the Association which involves a material affirmative misrepresentation of fact. The Association has found in the past that no such allegation ever has been made against a staff member
of the Association. In all cases the allegations were made against independent
professional telefunders with whom the Association had merely a contractual relationship, similar to the contractual relationship
it has with many vendors in many different commercial activities. In investigating
such a complaint, the Association must get back in touch with the particular professional telefunding company which actually
made the solicitation, to get their side of the story. To do this we ask the
full first and last name of the person who was spoken to on the telephone; we need the date and approximate time of the day
or evening of the call; we need the identification of the individual caller as either being a male or female, or, if they
gave a name, to state the name of the individual caller; and we need the actual allegation of the actual words spoken or acts
taken which are alleged to be misrepresentation or otherwise harmful. Without
that degree of detail, the Association can neither investigate the complaint, nor make comment on the complaint for it has
merely heard a complaint without specifics. All of the contracted with professional
telefundraising companies that the Association uses have institutional mechanisms in place in their companies that involve
individual supervisors as well as individual telefunders, as well as other mechanisms, to prevent any individual telefunder
from making a material affirmative misrepresentation of fact either with regard to the campaign they are working on or with
regard to that particular charitable organization client. These include rigorous
training courses. Nevertheless, just as an automobile dealership may employ a
particular salesman who, in order to make the sale go down, says that car is not a lemon, when in fact the car is a lemon,
this also can and does happen with telefundraising companies. Unless such an
employee is engaged in a concert of acting with his or her employer, or engaged in a conscious conspiracy with his or her
employer to make that sort of misrepresentation a fact, this Association believes that situation can properly be classified
as a “renegade deliberately going off of the reservation,” and on a basis that involves a limited number of such
examples, that it is wrongful to lay the blame for that squarely on the individual employer or some person that the employer
in that situation represents. Other similarities abound: we do not know, for example, of any strict rule of law currently enforced or enforceable in this country
which says that when an active duty member of the United States Armed Forces commits an act of murder or wrongful homicide
in clear violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, that the entirety of the chain of command up to and including
the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces, or the United States itself, is held liable for the wrongful conduct. The Association also points out that the Association will treat an allegation of wrongdoing which does not in
any way, shape or form constitute a violation of
CONTRIBUTION
INFORMATION ON THE HOMEPAGE FORUM
REQUESTS FOR PERSONAL OR GROUP ASSISTANCE Requests for personal or group assistance are always welcome to be e-mailed or snail mailed to the USNVA. Email requests for assistance may be emailed to with a subject line of Assistance. Snail mail requests for assistance may be mailed to: US Navy Veterans Association Attn: Assistance Division 7645 N. Union Blvd #150 Colorado Springs CO 80920. However, the requester should be aware that programs involving monetary or in-kind assistance to individuals or groups are normally initiated by our Activities and Programs Division at National Headquarters after a rigorous authentication process and then forwarded as a recommendation to the appropriate State Chapter for re-review and actual approval and disbursement of funds. If your request is approved, we will be getting back in touch with you. Cash distributions are limited to a lifetime distribution of $150. USNVA provides outreach services to needy USN, USNR, Marine Corps and Marine
Corps Reserve members, veterans and their dependents as a priority, but members, veterans and dependents of all branches
of the U.S. Armed Forces, including the USCG, have been, and are being assisted by these service programs. Outreach services
are provided without respect to veteran organization affiliation, and membership in USNVA is NOT required for service. In addition to requests for Association financial and in-kind assistance, we are also deluged with requests to find lost records and awards, and for assistance in obtaining military retirement and VA benefits. As to the latter three, we regret to say that we do not currently have the staff to assist everybody in need, and our first priority in those three areas lies with our members. Some of the best online assistance in finding lost records is to be found on our Links of Interest Page and, if we are not able to get back in touch with you personally after you've left us a message about your situation, we highly recommend those Links to you. To find lost buddies, you can also always leave an Entry on the Guestmap on the Links of Interest Page..
Our Forum Entries from the public on our charitable activities
at the bottom of our Homepage, our awards for our outreach programs, and our official recognition by the Department
of Veterans' Affairs all speak for themselves. We think that those who constantly thump their
chests about the charity work they've done miss the drift of St. Paul, who said in Corinthians that charity vaunteth
not itself and is not puffed up.
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Navy Community Foundation Fund members are individuals or entities who have made a lifetime contribution of $25,000 to one or more of the purposes of the Association, qualify for voting or honorary membership, have paid membership dues, and would like to be recognized by the Association for their patriotism and contribution to this sea-faring Nation. In addition to the regular benefits of membership in the Association listed above, Navy Community Foundation Fund members also may have, if they wish, their name, as well as information about them, listed on a separate Navy Community Foundation Fund Page on this Site, in perpetuity. ![]() NAVY EAGLE CIRCLE Navy Eagle Circle members are individuals or entities who have made a lifetime contribution of $10,000 to one or more of the purposes of the Association, qualify for voting or honorary membership, have paid membership dues, and would like to be recognized by the Association for their patriotism and contribution to this sea-faring Nation. In addition to the regular benefits of membership listed above, Navy Eagle Circle members also are, if they wish, listed on a separate Navy Eagle Circle Page on this Site, in perpetuity. For further information on participation in the Community Foudation Fund or Navy Eagle Circle programs, you may contact us at our national telephone number on our Contact Us Page.
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