News from May NEC Spring Meetings

The American Legion Legacy Scholarship for 2022 is awarding $705,937 in financial aid to 71 children of the fallen and disabled. The scholarship is available for children of veterans who died on active duty since Sept. 11, 2001, or post-9/11 veterans who have a combined VA disability rating of 50 percent or higher. Learn more at  legion.org/scholarships.

American Legion National Eagle Scout of the Year for 2022 is Christopher Adam of Mechanicsburg, Pa. He will receive a $10,000 scholarship. A $2,500 scholarship will be awarded to first runner-up Jackson Mills of Mt. Vernon, Ill.; second runner-up Chartlotte Beatson of Littleton, Colo., and third runner-up Matthew Korf of Woodbury, Minn. 

Decorative urns sat on six desks in the National Executive Committee Room at National Headquarters in Indianapolis during Spring Meetings: France, Alaska, Massachusetts, Maryland, Nevada and Wyoming. 

The departments met 50%, or 100% like France, of its donation goal for The American Legion Veterans & Children Foundation. A second urn will be placed on the desks when departments meet 100%. 

The NEC passed a resolution in 2018 and 2019 that approved a $25 million financial campaign for the Veterans & Children Foundation. To help accomplish this goal, it was approved by the NEC for departments to pledge 25 cents per member each year over a seven-year period.  

The American Legion Veterans & Children Foundation provides one-time Temporary Financial Assistance grants for military families with young children in the home who are experiencing a financial hardship. And it trains the organization’s 3,000 accredited service officers who are continuously working more than 750,000 benefits claims for disabled veterans and their families, free of charge.