Here’s a look at what Posts and community leaders are doing.
VFW Post 8185 is hosting a community service event. Includes live music, food drink, thank you card station to thank a veteran and accepting onsite requests for home repair, yard clean up, houseless to home support and collection drive for food & hygiene products.
A veteran resource fair is being hosted by VFW Post 5178. Representatives will be there from several veterans service organizations, as well as service officers onsite to assist with claims and staff from Missouri Vet Center and the local VA Medical Center in Columbia.
Shelter house painting and a park clean-up day is being hosted by VFW Post 1797.
Together with their local Toyota dealership, VFW Post 8955 is holding a community food drive.
VFW Post 3396, along with several other community partners, is planting flowers and shrubs along a main street in downtown Sparks, NV.
A pet adoption day is being hosted by VFW Post 6291. They are helping to find homes for animals displaced by the tornadoes in Kentucky.
VFW Post 8402 is hosting a sendoff meal. Geared toward local for graduating high school seniors who are newly enlisted in the military, it will include a meal, a gift bag for parents and more.
Teaming up with several community partners, VFW Post 2708 in Edgerton, Wisconsin is renovating a three story building. Once complete, this structure will offer veteran housing.
Here are some more ideas from VFW HQ:
Yard Clean Up (elderly, specific neighborhood)
Volunteer at Local Schools (speak to classrooms about service; read to children)
