Veterans: Find Assistance In Your Area During This Health Emergency
Looking for assistance nearby? We’ve listed organizations that can help in the Grantee Assistance Directories. Click on the covers to find your region’s grantees.
2020-2021 grants were awarded to organizations by the Texas Veterans Commissioners at their May 14, 2020 meeting. For a list of these organizations click HERE
Fund for Veterans’ Assistance
Coordinating Funding to Support Veterans and their Families Across Texas
The Texas Veterans Commission Fund for Veterans’ Assistance (FVA) grant program awards reimbursement grants to eligible charitable organizations, local government agencies, and Veterans Service Organizations that provide direct services to Texas Veterans and their families.
Since 2009, the Fund for Veterans’ Assistance has awarded over $137 million to organizations across Texas to help over 300,000 Veterans and their families.
The grant application window closed at 5pm Central Time on Friday, October 25, 2019. No applications may be submitted or accepted after the deadline. Commissioners will decide award recipients in May 2020.
Fund for Veterans' Assistance Grants for 2020-2021
Applications: August 24th - October 25, 2019 @ 5pm Central Time
Funding: July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021
2020-2021 grants were awarded to organizations by the Texas Veterans Commissioners at their May 14, 2020 meeting. For a list of these organizations click HERE
GA
General Assistance
These grants address the needs of Texas Veterans and their families. Such needs include, but are not limited to, the following: limited emergency assistance; family and child services; transportation services; legal services, excluding criminal defense; and employment, training, education, and job placement assistance.
H4TXH
Housing for Texas Heroes
These grants assist Texas Veterans and their families in obtaining, maintaining, or improving housing. Projects include homeless Veterans support, Veteran homelessness prevention, home modification assistance, and housing assistance for families of Veterans being treated at Texas medical facilities.
VCSO
Veterans County Service Officer
SB 1679 (85th Legislature) created a 5% set-aside for VCSO applications for FVA grants. This funding is available for General Assistance, Housing for Texas Heroes, and Veterans Mental Health grant applications with the Veteran County Service Officer listed as the Project Coordinator.
HRT
Highly Rural Transportation
This Department of Veterans Affairs-funded grant addresses the lack of transportation resources Veterans face when trying to access medical care. The grant targets Veterans in highly rural counties where travel times are typically longer, or where arranging transportation to their VA medical appointments (or VA-arranged, non-VA appointments) may be difficult.
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FVA In The Media
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NPower expands tuition free tech career training to veterans statewide
NPower helps launch digital careers for military veterans from under-served communities and veteran spouses. Their digital and technology careers training is tuition free for...
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NPower expands tuition free tech career training to veterans statewide
NPower helps launch digital careers for military veterans from under-served communities and veteran spouses. Their digital and technology careers training is tuition free for...
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Commissioners award over $30.7M in grants to more than 120 organizations, approve veteran employer awards
At their quarterly meeting May 14th, 2020; Texas Veterans Commissioners approved a total of $30,775,000 in Funds for Veterans’ Assistance (FVA) grants to be awarded to over...
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$880,788 in emergency funding grants approved for veteran services organizations
As of April 20, 2020, $880,788 in additional, emergency grant funding from the Texas Veterans Commission’s (TVC) Fund for Veterans Assistance (FVA) has been approved to 16 o...