VA Voluntary Service
VA Voluntary Service Committee Update January/February 2024
March 1, 2024
BY KEN ROSE, NATIONAL REP As we enter the New Year, volunteering again faces challenges. Since last December, infection rates from flu, Covid, and RSV have drastically increased. Some hospitals have reinstated mandatory masking, and…
VA Voluntary Service Committee Update November/December 2023
January 16, 2024
BY KEN ROSE, NATIONAL REP The Center of Development and Civic Engagement is the name the VA has adopted to create a more welcoming atmosphere for new non-veteran partners' volunteers, including corporate donors and nonprofits.…
VA Voluntary Service Committee Update July/August 2023
August 3, 2023
BY KEN ROSE, NATIONAL REP I received a few responses after I asked for people to become VA volunteers in the last VAVS column. At this stage of our lives, I know this is a…
VA Voluntary Service Committee Update September/October 2022
September 26, 2022
BY KEN ROSE, NATIONAL REP I have written in the past about the VA’s Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission to keep you informed about its progress because it was supposed to institute a major…
VA Voluntary Service Committee Update July/August 2022
August 11, 2022
BY KEN ROSE, NATIONAL REP In the last issue of the online edition of The VVA Veteran, I discussed the VA’s Asset and Infrastructure Commission (AIR). Since then, President Biden has released a list of the…
VA Voluntary Service Committee Update May/June 2022
June 5, 2022
BY KEN ROSE, NATIONAL REP VVA has chosen to be a Last Man Standing organization. But we are still here and there is much work to be done. We have already accomplished amazing things to…
VA Voluntary Service Committee Update March/April 2022
April 1, 2022
BY KEN ROSE, NATIONAL REP Back in the May/June 2017 VVA Veteran, I wrote that VVA’s VAVS program had a total of 59 Representatives, with an “attainable” goal of 65 Representatives on VAVS Volunteer Advisory…
VA Voluntary Service Committee Update January/February 2022
March 15, 2022
VA Voluntary Service BY KEN ROSE, NATIONAL REP As we enter 2022, the third year of the pandemic, it is clear it is not going to disappear. We will have to live with it until…
VA Voluntary Service Committee Update November/December 2021
December 8, 2021
VA Voluntary Service BY KEN ROSE, NATIONAL REP Unfortunately, very little has changed since my last report. The VAMCs and Clinics have not gone back to normal. The arrival of the Delta and Omicron variants…
VA Voluntary Service Committee Update September/October 2021
October 8, 2021
VA Voluntary Service BY KEN ROSE, NATIONAL REP It seemed like we had survived the pandemic. Restrictions were relaxed, and many people were preparing to travel and get together with friends. But now the variants…