§ 30302. Purposes

The purposes of the corporation are—

• (1) to operate as a not-for-profit corporation exclusively for charitable, educational, patriotic, and civic improvement purposes;
• (2) to promote the welfare of blinded veterans so that, notwithstanding their disabilities, they may take their rightful place in the community and work with their fellow citizens toward the creation of a peaceful world;
• (3) to preserve and strengthen a spirit of fellowship among blinded veterans so that they may give mutual aid and assistance to one another; and
• (4) to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom and to encourage loyalty to the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the States in which they reside.