Corporations and Foundations

Market your products or special discounts for VFW Members as one of our listed Membership Benefits on our website. Membership benefits partners receive several marketing incentives from the VFW. See some of our current relationships here.

For more information, please contact the VFW Foundation, or fill out a collaborative relationship proposal here.

Once we receive your proposal, one of our team members will contact you and guide you through the process of becoming a membership benefit.

The VFW Foundation is always looking for corporate supporters for our numerous programs that serve the military, veterans and their families. Their generosity ensures the VFW can continue to provide our vital services, completely free of charge.

There are many benefits for your company’s brand in supporting programs that serve veterans through the VFW.  The VFW recognizes our program supporters through permanent presence on our website, sponsor recognition days, as well as special events that raise money for our programs through special collaborations.

For more information, please contact the VFW Foundation, or fill out a collaborative relationship proposal here.

Once we receive your proposal, one of our team members will contact you and guide you through the process of becoming a program sponsor.

From an ad in the VFW magazine, to a buckslip in our membership materials that are mailed to every new member – the VFW can help ensure your organization’s message gets in front of the more than 1.5 million VFW and Auxiliary members. With multiple advertising and marketing assets available to your company, we have something to fit every organization's goal and budget.

For more information, please contact the VFW Foundation, or fill out a collaborative relationship proposal here.

Once we receive your proposal, one of our team members will contact you and guide you through the process of advertising within the VFW.

With more than 250 employees, and contacts in every state, the VFW approach to working with corporations is flexible and can be tailored to meet your corporate needs. Below are additional ways the VFW, and its employees, support our partners. 

 

• Veteran Employee Resource: The VFW is a vast resource for companies that wish to serve their veterans within their organizations. We can help with claims assistance or benefit reviews/education to employees as well as education on various programs and resources available to them. We would be glad to support a veteran employee workshop or assist with resources that could enable a company to develop a veteran employee resource group (VERG).
• Creative Employee Engagement for Fundraising (Virtual Walk/Fundraising): The VFW has worked with companies that wish to support and raise money for veteran programs. The VFW has 3 major programs that assist veterans nationwide. All VFW programs serve all veterans free of charge. Membership eligibility is not required. One company is doing a virtual walk to raise money for the VFW Unmet Needs program that provides financial grants to veteran families struggling to make ends meet through no fault of their own. Every year, Sport Clips mobilizes the entire company to raise money for the VFW's "Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship" program through point-of-sale and in-store fundraising efforts.
• Uniting to Combat Hunger: One of our most successful employee engagement opportunities has been fighting food insecurity within the veteran population. The VFW works with Humana at the Post level to raise awareness and combat food insecurity (i.e. the lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life). The VFW has coordinated food drives, crop gleanings, and packing of boxes/groceries in various areas across the United States. We have engaged with multiple corporate partners in this effort.
• Buddy Poppy/ Assembly and Campaigns: Before Memorial Day in 1922, we conducted our first poppy distribution, becoming the first veterans' organization to organize a nationwide distribution. The poppy soon was adopted as the official memorial flower of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, as it remains today. VFW "Buddy"® Poppies are assembled by disabled and needy veterans. The VFW Buddy Poppy program provides compensation to the veterans who assemble the poppies, provides financial assistance in maintaining state and national veterans' rehabilitation and service programs, and partially supports the VFW National Home For Children. We have coordinated Buddy Poppy drives with companies to recognize their veteran employees or employees with veteran family members on Memorial Day. Buddy Poppy drives could be conducted around veteran or patriotic holidays. The Poppies could be used by a company to raise funds for local veteran charities or to support their own veteran employee resource group efforts within the company as well.
• Veteran and First Responder Care packages: The VFW can coordinate employee assembly days for veteran and first responder care-packages that can be distributed locally and used for media “feel good” events. The VFW can coordinate supplies to be shipped to you free of charge for an assembly day where employees could put care packages together. Then the company employees can distribute them. This is being done is a safe manner even during the pandemic. If there is no space available in your company or should the company wish to conduct this off-site, it is possible that it could be conducted at a local VFW Post.

 

For more information, please contact the VFW Foundation, or fill out a collaborative relationship proposal here.

Do you have a product that you would like to have listed in the VFW Store?

For more information, please contact the VFW Foundation, or fill out a collaborative relationship proposal here.