Veterans

We support our veterans, past, present, and future, in a variety of ways:
  • We participate annually in Operation Paperback, collecting books and educational materials to donate to active duty families;
  • We support Vietnam Battlefield Tours, Inc., a non-profit that funds and arranges return voyages to Vietnam war sites, for veterans and their families;
  • We contribute to the fundraising efforts of the local veterans’ facility at First Avenue and 23rd Street;
  • We package Christmas gifts for both men and women soldiers at that same VA Medical Center every December, for holiday distribution;
  • We held a “knit for vets” lesson to teach knit and crochet, enabling a group of our members to produce over a dozen handmade lap blankets for VA hospital residents;
  • We organized a caroling party of musically inclined members, who visited the facility at Christmas to entertain and cheer the resident veterans.

Education & Scholarship

At Manhattan’s Xavier High School, we present to each graduating Jr. ROTC cadet, a pocket copy of the Constitution of the United States.

Each year we present to a deserving Jr. ROTC member an award and a gift check to be used toward college costs.

For many years, the Manhattan Chapter, NSDAR, recognized outstanding graduating seniors attending local New York City schools with the DAR Good Citizens awards for their dependability, leadership, service, and patriotism, presenting students with local, state, and national scholarship award opportunities through an essay competition.
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Manhattan Chapter, NSDAR, annually supports the DAR schools, and in 2017 gave a substantial donation to the Hillside School in New York.

Patriotic Commemoration

Manhattan Chapter, NSDAR, annually participates in a moving Memorial Day ceremony at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, placing a wreath at the site in memory of America’s service men and women.
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To recognize the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, Manhattan Chapter, NSDAR, partnered with the Fraunces Tavern Museum and Regents’ Roundtable members to coordinate a month-long exhibit of appropriately themed art and poetry created by high school students from all five boroughs of New York City.

Preservation

We have continued an ongoing effort to preserve the Dutch-founded 1787 Erasmus Hall Academy building located in Flatbush Brooklyn, and worked with state departments and agencies to refurbish and protect this landmarked structure.

Over the years, Manhattan Chapter, NSDAR, has planted hundreds of daffodils and tulips in the pre- and post-Revolutionary War burial ground of the nearby parent Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church (f. 1654).

We have helped to beautify the historic Morris Jumel Mansion site in Upper Manhattan, donating to their grounds a set of boxwood shrubs and a cutting from a tree from George Washington’s Mt. Vernon estate.
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In 2017, the Manhattan Chapter, NSDAR, hosted a presentation by Bill Stilwagen, founder of Vietnam Battlefield Tours, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to helping Vietnam veterans and their surviving families heal old wounds, physical and emotional, by visiting and touring battle sites in Vietnam, regardless of ability to pay. Manhattan Chapter, NSDAR, was proud to donate a substantial gift in support of this worthy organization’s work.
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