Military-Veterans Advocacy Inc

Our goal during the first quarter of 2022 is to at least double our membership and keep it above the required threshold to be officially federally recognized. We should also find a potential leader for a “Burn Pit” section by the end of the first quarter of 2022, this will help drive younger membership.

Our fundraising goal for the first quarter of 2022 should be $10,000 which would be a $2,000 increase based on 2021’s quarterly fundraising average, not including Riffle Raffle or Breakfast which didn’t occur each quarter. This will be reached through updating the website and making the donation page easier to find and understand as well as emphasizing Amazon Smile plus other smaller fundraising outreaches.

Our overarching goals are to ensure that the rights of members of the armed forces and veterans are protected as well as help veterans and their families receive their earned benefits without delay.

To help reach membership and fundraising goals we will make our social media pages more interactive. This will include the sections spotlights on Facebook that have been on hold, creating a LinkedIn page that will share our accomplishments, using Twitter to share more than the bill of the week and donation links, and creating an Instagram page that will post pics available for free from the government to go along with stories about Agent Orange and burn pits effects on veterans’ health. I need section leaders to start ASAP identifying potential members for their member spotlight during their section spotlight week. We can also use every section’s first week to describe the origins of your section and why as the section leader you are so passionate about it, then in future section spotlight weeks you can share updates and other information about your section.
We can also use the different section Facebook pages to get new email addresses for potential members and add them to our contact list on the new service we will use. This new service will allow us to send targeted emails for each section so we would be able to cut down the length of the newsletter. This new service will also allow us to send more emails without limiting us and we can target those who aren’t members with emails asking them to join or donate to show support.
We need to spread a message of excitement and encouragement for those applying for VA benefits. Obtaining these benefits are not easy and the process can be difficult, but we need to show the sunnier side of it and how much those benefits help once your application is successful. With a positive message and sharing our success stories we can drive more people to us for help and they will trust us to help.
We need to have a minimum of 2 boosted posts or ads live on Facebook every month. One should be a general awareness ad with no hard defined demographics besides 18+ so we can become better known to more people. The other should be a small monthly fundraiser asking for donations as well as encouraging membership that should be targeted to our demographic stated earlier.

To help reach this membership and fundraising goal we will make our social media pages more interactive. This will include the sections spotlights on Facebook that have been on hold, creating a LinkedIn page that will share our accomplishments, using Twitter to share more than the bill of the week and donation links, and creating an Instagram page that will post pics available for free from the government to go along with stories about Agent Orange and burn pits effects on veterans’ health. I need section leaders to start ASAP identifying potential members for their member spotlight during their section spotlight week. We can also use every section’s first week to describe the origins of your section and why as the section leader you are so passionate about it, then in future section spotlight weeks you can share updates and other information about your section.
We can also use the different section Facebook pages to get new email addresses for potential members and add them to our contact list on the new service we will use. This new service will allow us to send targeted emails for each section so we would be able to cut down the length of the newsletter. This new service will also allow us to send more emails without limiting us and we can target those who aren’t members with emails asking them to join or donate to show support.
We need to spread a message of excitement and encouragement for those applying for VA benefits. Obtaining these benefits are not easy and the process can be difficult, but we need to show the sunnier side of it and how much those benefits help once your application is successful. With a positive message and sharing our success stories we can drive more people to us for help and they will trust us to help.

We helped gather enough support in Congress to pass the Blue Water Navy Act in 2019 that extended Agent Orange to Navy Veterans who served in the harbors and seas of Vietnam. Our organization has also helped write bills to extended similar benefits to other veterans who served in areas impacted by toxic exposure. We have also sent rule making requests to the VA to expand benefits as well as appearing in federal courts to fight for these expanded benefits for veterans.