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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Military & Veterans Organizations, Veterans
Mission: The objects and purposes of this post shall be to promote the principles and policies as set forth in the foregoing preamble, and the national and departmental constitutions of the american legion.
Programs: 1. The support of benevolent, charitable and educational institutions: assisting in a material way disabled veterans of the world wars; and, in cooperating with the public school in sponsoring education week and in giving school awards for outsanding service and accomplishments among the student body in the public school and colleges of this state. 2. To take by gift or devise and to purchase, sell, transfer, mortgage, and lease or rent real and personal property as shall be deemed necessary and incidental to carrying out the corporate powers for which this corporation is created and which are within the scope of the national constitution and by-laws of the american legion. 3. To exercise such other powers as are granted by the texas non-profit corporation act, which are not inconsistent with or in conflict with the national constitution and by-laws of the american legion, and the constitution and by-laws of the department of the texas, the american legion.