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To read current or previous issues of the NonProfit Advisor, please click here, enter your membership number, select NonProfit Advisor and select the issue you would like view. Upcoming Events!DAV NewsroomClick here to stay current with DAV news updates, photos, articles, alerts and video and audio webcasts.
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WASHINGTON – If you just left the military, Wal-Mart has a job for you. Guaranteed. Read more
SERVICE, the film, portrays the courage of several women veterans as they transition from active duty to their civilian lives. We see the horrific traumas they faced, their invisible as well as physical injuries and all their challenges in receiving benefits and care. We follow them through the large and small accomplishments they work mightily to achieve. More Update on the American Veterans Disabled for Life MemorialUpdate on the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial: Utility realignment is nearing completion with road construction to begin soon. Dedication ceremony preliminarily scheduled for November 2014. A detailed update will be provided at National Convention in Orlando, FL. See you there. (Pictures)
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a new hotline — 1-855-VA-WOMEN — to receive and respond to questions from Veterans, their families and caregivers about the many VA services and resources available to women Veterans. The service began accepting calls on March 27, 2013. Read more A MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2013
Our country’s cultural richness stems from the many immigrant and native legacies which bind us as one Nation from many peoples. Our strength as a Nation resides in the hearts and minds and spirit of our people, united in preserving freedom and justice, and in our willingness to work hard to earn our own way. Asian and Pacific Islander Americans have contributed enormously through language, the arts, music, literature, science, and medicine, adding their own hopes and dreams, to the countless threads that give color and resilience to the fabric that is America.
Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month commemorates both the arrival of the first immigrant Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, linking our Nation’s east and west coasts. So many Chinese immigrants were instrumental to this uniting of the continent. And so many Asian and Pacific Islander Americans since have likewise served and sacrificed for our country. More than 292,000 of them have defended this Nation. Over 67,000 men and women of Asian and Pacific Islander descent currently serve on duty in our Armed Forces around the world.
America is safer, and our democracy is stronger, because of their service in uniform. These Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, from the first brave immigrants to today’s generation of vibrant Americans, have made positive and lasting contributions to the greater good of our society.
Their impact has been truly significant—from operating small businesses to leading multinational corporations; from teaching in our most rural classrooms to lecturing in our greatest universities; from volunteering to care for the sick and homeless to commanding the formations which defend us, preserving peace in a dangerous world. Asian and Pacific Islander Americans are fully interwoven into every aspect of American life, bringing with them the hopes and dreams to build an ever-greater America.
On behalf of the Department of Veterans Affairs, it is a privilege to celebrate the rich histories of all Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, including over 22,000 of our co-workers, during this month which honors their heritage.
Eric K. Shinseki
On April 19 the US Department of Veterans Affairs published two news releases on new initiatives to tackle the backlog of disability compensation claims.
The Claims Initiative release states, in part "Effective today, VA claims raters will make provisional decisions on the oldest claims in inventory, which will allow veterans to begin collecting compensation benefits more quickly, if eligible. Veterans will be able to submit additional evidence for consideration a full year after the provisional rating, before VA issues a final decision." Read more
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Disabled American Veterans (DAV), and The American Legion announced a new partnership to help reduce the compensation claims backlog for Veterans. The effort—the Fully Developed Claims (FDC) Community of Practice—is a key part of VA’s overall transformation plan to end the backlog in 2015 and process claims within 125 days at 98% accuracy. VA can process FDCs in half the time it takes for a traditionally filed claim. Read more
In honor of PTSD Awareness Month, we at the National Center for PTSD, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, invite you to sign up for the PTSD Monthly Update!
Once a month you will get an email notice that includes:
· Brief information about PTSD and its effective treatments
· Innovative products, such as the PTSD Coach Mobile App
· Each month focus is on a different topic related to trauma and PTSD
You manage your own subscription and can easily unsubscribe at any time. Find out more about PTSD Awareness Month and a wealth of educational materials at www.ptsd.va.gov. VA and Vet Groups Announce Backlog Initiative
The Department of Veterans Affairs and two of the country’s leading veterans’ service organizations say they have developed a plan to speed up action on disability claims and help bring down the claims backlog that is frustrating veterans, their families, and congressional lawmakers. Read More Thousands of patriotic citizens from around the country will honor the service and sacrifice of our nation's fallen heroes at VA national cemeteries on Memorial Day, May 27, 2013. Ceremonies can vary from cemetery to cemetery, and may include parades, speeches, music performances, rifle volleys, bugle calls and the laying of wreaths. Read More |
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