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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Military & Veterans Organizations, Veterans
Mission: The american legion endowment fund provides financial support for the organization's veterans affairs & rehabilitation services and children & youth programs, including temporary financial assistance in the form of cash grants to provide basic needs of veteran and military families with minor children at home.
Programs: Income from fund investments is passed on to the veterans affairs and rehabilitation and child welfare programs of american legion national headquarters. Some of the funds assist the veterans affairs and rehabilitation division with the following programs: 1. Provides funds for two annual department service officer's schools. Training is provided to these individuals to bring them up to date on the latest changes in department of veteran affairs and the united states court of appeals for veterans claims regulations, procedures and laws, respectively. 2. Provides funds for the american legion and national veterans legal services program (nvlp) internship program, which provides training to legion staff assigned to the board of veterans appeals (bva) and to department service officers on temporary assignment to the bva. 3. Partially finances a memorandum of agreement with the national veterans legal services program for training of legion service officers and legal representation before federal courts on veterans/claimants appeals considered to be of a precedential-setting nature.