Deborah Turner (601) 506-9430 Email report form
Our programs are designed to bring needed services, information, and assistance to these target groups. Veterans, service members, their families, and our communities.
Volunteering is second nature for VFW Auxiliary members. It’s what we do, how we do it, where we do it and why we do it – because it’s always the right thing to do.
While emphasis is placed on our core VFW and Auxiliary Programs, Auxiliaries also partner with other community organizations. Auxiliaries can report and be recognized for such community work through the Auxiliary Outreach Program.
When an entire Auxiliary partners with another organization outside our own, it is considered Auxiliary Outreach if the project was approved by the Auxiliary and recorded in the meeting minutes prior to the project. Search your community for great partnerships.
For example:
An individual can cook for and feed several Homeless Veterans and people in the community and that’s honorable but if you partner with and established soup kitchen it can mean feeding hundreds per day and that is making a difference on a much larger scale.
Other examples include:
Working with local police on child ID kits.
Working with firefighters on fire safety and prevention.
Working with EMTs to host CPR training.
Handing out food at soup kitchens.
Partnering with an animal shelter to hold a spay and neuter clinic.
Auxiliaries are responsible for so many good deeds that help our communities. VFW Auxiliary members work with other organizations in their communities, often individually, and often behind the scenes, but Auxiliary Outreach gives us the opportunity to work together as members alongside members of another organization to do more with local communities and to be recognized in doing so. Collectively, all our projects need to be counted to effectively show the importance of the local VFW and VFW Auxiliary to the community.
Thanks for all you do. Don’t hesitate to contact me.