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HVAF and Amazon Smile
Your Amazon.com purchase can now benefit HVAF of Indiana. Just go to https://smile.amazon.com/ and type in HVAF of Indiana. The Amazon Smile Foundation will donate .5% of the purchase price for all eligible purchases. Amazon.com will remember your nonprofit selection, and then…
HVAF vet gets help finding permanent home
Paul Holland had been homeless, living mostly on a friend’s couch, for the last 4 years. Today the 50-year-old is cleaning and decorating an apartment he now calls home. Jaimie Huguenard, MSW, LSW, Paul’s case manager at HVAF, helped him land…
Woodrow Hairl, WWII veteran & HVAF client, takes first flight
A wave of patriotism and respect washed over the veterans who returned to the Indianapolis International Airport after their Honor Flight trip to Washington, D.C., April 5. Woodrow Wilson Hairl, 87, was a part of the group of 70 World…
Employee spotlight
Jaye Blythe, 47, joined HVAF in June 2013 as our Housing Specialist. She helps veterans who leave HVAF transitional housing program to enter permanent homes of their own. Blythe has a BSW in Social Work. What attracted you to the…
Become a Friend of HVAF
Consider becoming a Friend of HVAF today. Your contribution of $1,000 a year through this partnership program can furnish an apartment for a veteran for one year. We created the Friends of HVAF program to steward special partnerships with people…
Helping heroes improve their quality of life
HVAF is partnering with Simons Bitzer & Associates to provide free financial literacy and skill-building classes. In March, more than 20 veterans learned the basics of budgeting from maintaining a check book to retirement planning. “We were excited to meet them and…
Two brothers’ banded together to beat addiction
Ron W., 55, is a United States Army veteran who was stationed in Ft. Jackson, South Carolina; Ft. Gordon, Georgia; and Ft. Hood, Texas in the 1970’s. He worked on teletype machines. “It kept me on my toes and really made…
Volunteers spend Spring Break giving back
A dozen students from the University of Connecticut took a pass on Spring Break fun in the sun in order to make a real difference in the lives of HVAF veterans in March. The student group, representing the university’s Office…
Wish List
HVAF is in need of pasta, soup and hygiene items for our homeless veterans. Please call 317-951-0688 to make your donation.
Passion for Supporting Indiana’s Veterans Leads to Service Project
We’re thrilled about the piece on HVAF that appeared in Construction Executive Magazine. Last October, sixteen companies with Associated Builders & Contractors of Indiana/Kentucky, as well as members of the chapter staff and its Emerging Leaders program, volunteered to do electrical work, fix the…