Disabled American Veterans
Dewey Powell Chapter 12
Klamath Falls, OR

Keeping Our Promise to American's Veterans

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We are dedicated to a single purpose: empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. We accomplish this by ensuring that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them; fighting for the interests of America's injured heroes on Capitol Hill; and educating the public about the great sacrifices and needs of veterans transitioning back to civilian life.

• Providing free, professional assistance to veterans and their families in obtaining benefits and services earned through military service and provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other agencies of government.

• Providing outreach concerning its program services to the American people generally, and to disabled veterans and their families specifically.

• Representing the interests of disabled veterans, their families, their widowed spouses and their orphans before Congress, the White House and the Judicial Branch, as well as state and local government.

• Extending DAV's mission of hope into the communities where these veterans and their families live through a network of state-level Departments and local chapters.

• Providing a structure through which disabled veterans can express their compassion for their fellow veterans through a variety of volunteer programs.

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ABOUT DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS

DEWEY POWELL CHAPTER 12

Disabled American Veterans (DAV) is a nonprofit charity that provides a lifetime of support for veterans of all generations and their families, helping more than 1 million veterans nationwide in positive, life-changing ways each year.

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At Dewey Powell Chapter 12, we receive no federal or state funding and our chapter provides this support from donations and fundraising to help fund our operations and to support our local veterans.

 

How we receive funds:

• Annual fundraising ticket sales and donations account for 38% of our funds. 

• Private donations account for 32% of our funds.

• We have a weekly Wednesday breakfast throughout the year. We purchase breakfast groceries and supplies from donations. These donations account for 28% of our funds.

• Renting our Chapter Hall for events and sales of DAV items account for 2% of our income.

 

How we help:

• We have a weekly Wednesday breakfast from 7:30 to 9:30 am. It is free for those that cannot donate. Breakfast brings veterans together to socialize where they wouldn’t otherwise. It feeds people where they may not get breakfast.

• We assist in providing one-time emergency funding for veterans and their families in financial distress.  

• We have a food pantry where the Food is provided by the Food Bank. We provide free emergency food boxes anytime for veterans and military and their families.

•  We provide Thanksgiving food boxes for veterans and veteran families in need.

• We receive donated furniture and medical equipment that we donate back to veterans and local military personnel and their families.

• We support the DAV National program that provides free transportation for veterans to their Veterans Administration medical appointments. We do not directly provide this service from our Chapter.

• We are a member of the Klamath County Veterans Advisory Council where we work with the other Klamath Falls veterans’ organizations to assist our veterans.