2025 AVVA NATIONAL CONVENTION

New Orleans, LA

August 5 through August 9, 2025

The New Orleans Marriot Hotel
555 Canal St, New Orleans, LA 70130

 


 

*IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFORMATION*

AVVA Convention registration requires the use of the AVVA Convention Registration Form NOT THE VVA FORM!

AVVA members must fill out the AVVA Convention Registration Form, and send it in on-time.  IF YOU ARE A DELEGATE WHO INTENDS TO PARTICIPATE IN VOTING ON CONVENTION BUSINESS YOU MUST ALSO FILL OUT THE DELEGATE REGISTRATION FORM! (See details below)

If you do not use the AVVA forms, you will not be properly registered, and will not be able to participate.  Please read the information on this page carefully.

AVVA CONVENTION REGISTRATION FORM 2025


 

BYLAW PROPOSED AMENDMENTS

The proposed amendments to the National Bylaws will be presented to the delegates of AVVA at the convention, to be voted up or down (pass or fail).  Use this link to see the proposed amendments to the bylaws for the 2025 Convention:   2025 Bylaw Amemdments - Proposed

 


 

2025 PROJECT FRIENDSHIP - VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA

The 2025 AVVA Project Friendship recipient has been chosen:  Volunteers of America, New Orleans, LA. 
USE THIS LINK FOR A PRINTABLE COPY



 

 

SEE THE ELECTIONS PAGE OF THIS WEBSITE FOR DETAILS ABOUT THE NATIONAL ELECTIONS

If you have any questions about the National Elections 2025 please contact the Elections Committee Chair, Nancy Montgomery via email. nmontgomery@cox.net

 


 

DELEGATES TO CONVENTION- REGISTRATION

Those persons who wish to register as a delegate to their chapter, state or at-large members must fill out the official Delegate Registration Form, and turn it in on or before June 30, 2025.  This means, if you mail the form "snail mail", it should be mailed a few days before that date, in order to be received.  The form can be saved, filled out, printed and signed, then scanned back into your device to be sent as an attachment in an email on or before June 30. These forms require signatures.  If the form is not received by the deadline the delegate will not be registered and cannot be seated at convention.   Find the Delegate Registration Form using this link:  Delegate Form or by going to the general forms page of this website.

EXAMPLE:    

Find the delegate registration form using the link provided here, or on the general forms page of this site.  Download, or save, the form to your device hard drive (it is best to use a computer/laptop).  Open the saved form and fill out all information.

Once you have filled out all of the information, print out your form and add all signatures that are required.  ( your own and if applicable, the person you are registering.)  MAKE A COPY FOR YOUR RECORDS!

You can now either mail the form with the original signatures to the National Elections Committee chair, or you can scan a PDF copy of the finished form back into your device, using your printer/scanner settings. (Be careful to choose to save as a document, or as a pdf, NOT a picture file.)  Once you have done this, the scanned copy of your form can be attached to an email to be sent to the Elections Committee chair.  Be sure to followup about 2 weeks after sending the form, to be sure it was received.

 

 


 

DEADLINES FOR THE 2025 CONVENTION

NOMINATIONS FOR AVVA NATIONAL AWARDS May 15, 2025
CANDIDATE REGISTRATION *(Snail mail postmark must be on or before March 31, 2025) April 1, 2025*
DELEGATE REGISTRATION June 30, 2025
CONVENTION REGISTRATION (For attendance to conv.) July 7, 2025
SUBMIT REQUESTS FOR BYLAW AMENDMENTS April 1, 2025*
TURN IN VISTA HOURS FOR THE 2025 AWARDS March 20, 2025*
   

* Deadline expired

 

 

 

PAST CONVENTIONS:

 

 

2021 AVVA NATIONAL CONVENTION

 

CONVENTION PHOTOS, 2021!

Click HERE to go to the slide-show of the AVVA convention photos! 


 

 

AWARDS INFORMATION:

Go to the AWARDS webpage for the 2021 Award Information!

 


THE 2021 PROJECT FRIENDSHIP - HUGE SUCCESS!

AVVA's 2021 Project Friendship resulted in a donation to the Combat Female Veterans Families United, of greensboro, NC in the amount of $16,596.00!  To all of the VVA and AVVA chapters and states, as wel as individual donors for this success.  And thanks to the AVVA 2019-2021 BOD for all of the promotion work.

 


 


 

 

AVVA 2019 National Convention, Spokane, WA

 

NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR 2019-2021: