Why report these numbers?
Every hour, every dollar ALA members invest in our mission of helping veterans adds up. It not only gives each member a sense of pride in belonging to the organization, but it allows us to demonstrate our effectiveness to the world. Each small sum of numbers gets added into the collective numbers that are called Impact Numbers.
These numbers proclaim our impact and help make membership in the ALA meaningful. These numbers are also reported to The American Legion, which includes them in its annual report to Congress. To make this process easier for you, it has been simplified and the form has been condensed to include only essential information. If you aren’t sure, giving an estimate is better than not reporting at all.
How to complete the Impact Report Form
1. Each ALA member should fill out the Member Form and give it to their unit president. This usually happens in April, but please check with your unit.
2. The unit president (or their designee) compiles all of the member data on the Unit Form and adds any additional data not reported individually by unit members. This form then gets forwarded to either the district/county (if applicable) or department which compiles all the records.
3. It is more important that you report information in one section of the form only, rather than worry if you have selected the right category. For example, if you provide a service for children, it should go in either Service for Military Families (for example, camps for military children only) or Service for Children & Youth (Legion Family camps for all children), but not in both places. Just report itsomewhere.
4. Please round to whole dollar values (for example, $149.50 should be $150).
Report Simplifications
1. All service for all veterans/military whether active duty, retired, or reserve is now combined in one section.
2. Each section has better defined examples of the service that should be reported.
3. For units, districts/counties, and departments:
“Line numbers” and “Obtain Total From” columns assist in transferring data from form to form. For example, units can find the number of Volunteer Hours for Military Families on Line 5 of the Member Form.
Thank you for taking the time to REPORT your VALUABLE SERVICE and helping us TELL OTHERS about our INCREDIBLE IMPACT!
