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THE NVF NEWS The Lifeline For America’s Veterans SERVING OUR VETERANS CELEBRATING 29 YEARS Memorial Day 2017 NVF Gives Away 24,000 New Lands’ End Clothes to Vets On February 3, Veterans began lining up at 8:00 AM at the VA ...
Poverty: Too Often a Barrier for Women Vets
Women’s Outreach Director Mary Ann Mayer, MSW has been fielding calls from women veterans for several months now. She notes the high incidence of poverty as an issue and a barrier for women vets. To begin with, female veterans have a lower ...
Donations for North Dakota Veteran Family
From NVF Veteran Outreach Coordinator Mary Ann Mayer Please donate to keep this Veteran family from becoming homeless for Christmas. This week I have been working with a family in North Dakota. The husband is a Vietnam Era Vet. ...
NVF Homeless Veteran Outreach Takes Services to Veterans Wherever They Are
By Gerald Hillard, Outreach Specialist NVF's Homeless Veteran Outreach Team takes services to where the veterans are. There’s an encampment of vets under the 101 Freeway at Highland Blvd. in Hollywood. On Outreach, I had to hop ...
NVF Outreach Director Kristine Hesse featured in Empower our Vets Video
Thank you to Empower Our Vets for this awesome video with National Veterans Foundation Outreach Director Kristine Hesse, talking about the challenges women veterans face transitioning from the military to civilian life. Thank you to Vet ...
The NVF Homeless Veteran Outreach Team in Action
The National Veterans Foundation's Homeless Veteran Outreach Team provides food and water to homeless vets throughout Los Angeles twice a week. The program uses the feeding program as an introduction to homeless vets, with the goal of ...
Helping Homeless Veterans by Giving Back to Those Who Sacrificed
American veterans have sacrificed and risked everything to protect the country and the citizens of the United States. They have been separated from their friends and families and placed in hostile situations, where injury or death is a very ...
Homelessness: Plenty of Talk, Not Enough Commitment
by Shad Meshad As someone who has spent 44 years on the streets of Los Angeles working to help homeless veterans, I hear a lot of talk and see a lot of reports on homelessness. But the scene we see on the ground has not changed much from ...
