FAVRA

Veteran? Need Emergency Assistance? We can help!

Personal • Discrete • Honorable

541-590-0395

Local veterans helping local veterans in need of limited emergency funds.

Who We Are

The Florence Veterans’ Relief Agency (FAVRA) is made-up of local veterans who help local veterans with emergency stop-gap grant funding for immediate food, clothing, shelter, medical, transportation, utilities, or other personal needs. FAVRA is a non-profit subsidiary of the local American Legion Francis M. Yost Post 59. The Post provides all administrative oversight to FAVRA, ensuring that 100 percent of contributions received go directly to local veterans in need. Your contributions make it possible to help additional deserving veterans!

One Vet’s Story

A local WWII vet needed desperately to move from her humble-yet-high- maintenance home into a safe and secure place that would make her daily living easier and more affordable. All she needed was a small-but-quick infusion of cash to cover the minor transitionary costs of the move. She didn’t know where to turn. She couldn’t stay in her home. She couldn’t move out. She was stuck. That’s when her friend called us on her behalf. We gifted the funds…no strings attached. Local contributions made it possible to honor and assist this fellow veteran!

What We Do

After a simple qualification process, the vet usually has a check in hand within 24 hours. The help we provide is anonymous, personal, discrete, and honorable. We’re not a government agency. We’re not the VA. We understand fellow vets. We don’t ask anything from them. We simply verify their status, and then provide them with urgently needed relief. There are no administrative costs. Every penny received goes directly to a vet in need!

Join us! Be a local hero for a local veteran!

As long as there are veterans in need, our mission is not fully accomplished. But we can’t do it alone. Here are three easy ways you can be a hero for these heroes… (1) Tell people you know at work, in your neighborhood, at your civic club, or at church that there is a new local non-profit that is actively serving local vets, and doesn’t burden them with red tape. (2) Refer a veteran to the Florence Veterans’ Relief Agency at the phone number below. (3) Contribute.

Please join us and honor a veteran today with a direct, honorable, and discrete contribution. A financial gift of any size from you enables even more local veterans to pay for a doctor’ or dentist appointment, pay their electric bill, get a new pair of shoes, afford an auto repair, or move into a better situation. You will receive a tax-deductible receipt for your contribution along with our letter of gratitude. You can use the form to the right and tell us you’re with us. Simply mail a check payable to FAVRA @ PO Box 692, Florence, OR 97439. If you know a veteran whom FAVRA may be able to assist, please contact us at 541-590-0395. Please…be a hero for our heroes.

Florence Area Veterans Relief Agency (FAVRA)

CALL US AT: 541-590-0395