CWF grants make a difference

CWF grants make a difference

Dear Legionnaires,

Your generosity has helped award nearly $20 million in American Legion Child Welfare Foundation grants since 1954 to help youth-serving nonprofit organizations across this nation promote and operate their programs that provide direct care to children in need. Your donations have produced activity programs for kids with cancer, provided lifesaving flights for pediatric patients to faraway medical facilities for treatment, kept children with autism safe from leaving the house unnoticed, protected neglected and abused children, and more.

Legion Family members recently heard from three 2022 CWF recipients – Mercy Medical Angles, Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky (PCAK) and the National Children’s Cancer Society. The CWF grant to Mercy Medical Angels provided 7,235 free trips for children and a caregiver – 5,154 of the trips were for cancer treatment and 494 were for the child of a veteran. And PCAK provided a variety of resources that the CWF grant helped create that are available at legion.org/youth

Members of the American Legion Family are the prime contributors to the success and growth of CWF. Your support continues projects that improve the quality of life for our nation’s children. American Legion posts, Legion Riders chapters, Auxiliary units and Sons of The American Legion squadrons are eligible for the CWF 100% per capita banner for the 2022-23 membership year. To qualify for the banner, a post, unit or squadron must donate at least $1 per member based upon respective official membership total for the 2022-23 year. Download the CWF 100 percent per capita banner, along with CWF promotional brochures, at legion.org/publications under Children & Youth.

Your donations make a difference. You are helping the betterment of children in this country.