Events
A flyer accompanying some donation requests sent to the general public in 2005 lists a number of programs and events that the Foundation sponsors or contributes to, including:
- Interaction with homeless shelters to identify and assist homeless veterans
- Providing holiday gift baskets to veterans unable to leave a hospital setting
- Contributions to local food banks
- Providing tickets and transportation to sporting events for hospital-bound veterans
- As noted above, financial contributions to Veterans Administration hospitals
- Publication of "US Veterans Review", the Foundation's official publication
- On-line reunion services to assist veterans in finding others they have served with
- Management of a "Veterans Hiring Veterans" job assistance program
- General maintenance of a veterans communications network through electronic, print, and personal means
Read more about this topic: Foundation For American Veterans
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)