Your CFC contribution helps disabled veterans in a big way.

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The contribution you make to the DAV Charitable Service Trust through your Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) or workplace giving program may seem like a small amount, but, when added to the contributions of others you reach out to help build better lives for America's disabled veterans and their families in a big way. That's what makes each and every CFC and workplace campaign contributor special.

As they go about their daily work, thousands of federal employees are helping disabled veterans and their families. Whether a clerk in a VA Regional Office or an active duty service member on patrol in a foreign country, these contributions to the Charitable Service Trust through the CFC are at work improving the quality of life for countless disabled veterans.

DAV and Auxiliary members, and others, who contribute to the Charitable Service Trust through the United Way and other workplace giving campaigns, provide necessary funding to help ensure a wide range of care and services for disabled veterans and their families.

Generous contributions enable the Trust to provide transportation for veterans to VA hospitals for needed medical treatment, assistance for homeless veterans and displaced families, prosthetics research and more.

"In addition to other services funded, the Trust is now addressing traumatic brain injury, or TBI," Charitable Service Trust Chairman Richard E. Marbes said. "TBI has been called the secret epidemic because it's unknown just how many veterans have been affected. One thing is certain: TBI can be devastating and needs more research and treatments developed. Thanks to our contributors, the Charitable Service Trust is meeting the challenge of TBI by supporting programs addressing it."

TBI programs funded by the Charitable Service Trust include a program providing driver rehabilitation services for veterans suffering polytrauma, especially those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who sustained TBI; a program to improve research, screening and treatment of veterans suffering TBI and supporting family members who serve as caregivers for home-based polytrauma as a result of service in Iraq and Afghanistan; and programs at the Center for the Intrepid at the Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, supporting state-of-the-art physical rehabilitation and advanced training skills for military members catastrophically disabled in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I can personally affirm that nothing feels better than helping someone in need," Marbes said.

"Every contribution is important, and every person--DAV and Auxiliary member, federal employee, military man and woman, and individual--is deeply appreciated for designating the Trust. I encourage everyone to become a contributor and help build better lives for America's disabled veterans and their families."

To make sure your CFC donation is used to support the DAV Charitable Service Trust, be sure to use CFC Code #11322. The Trust is listed in the CFC brochure under "Military, Veterans and Patriotic Service Organizations of America."

You may also designate the Trust through any local United Way campaign. If the Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust isn't listed in your United Way contribution materials, just write in on your contribution form to have your payroll deductions made to the DAV Charitable Service Trust, 3725 Alexandria Pike, Cold Spring, KY, 41076. It's that easy to help so many in need.

There are also free information brochures and posters available for DAV and Auxiliary members who want to help spread the word about the Trust to others. To request information or materials, send a request to DAV Charitable Service Trust, 3725 Alexandria Pike, Cold Spring, KY 41076. Information may also be obtained by calling toll-free 877-426-2838, extension 3316, or e-mail your request to [e-mail].

Please join others who contribute to the Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust through your CFC, United Way or other workplace giving campaign. Make today the day you help, every day.