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Warrior Care Organizations
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Air Compassion for VeteransAir Compassion For Veterans, based in Virginia Beach, Va., works with Mercy Medical Airlift to ensure that no financially-needy veteran or active duty military member or their family members are denied access to distant, specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation for lack of a means of long-distance medical air transportation. The group provides flight free of charge for those who qualify. The Aleethia FoundationThe Aleethia Foundation supports newly injured troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Bethesda Naval Medical Center, both in the Washington, D.C., area, with short-term therapeutic recreation by getting them out of the hospital environment for meals, movies, sightseeing, and visits to interesting sites. American Soldier FoundationThe Soldier Foundation, based in New York City, supports military members on active deployment, and their families, and service members retired for age or disability, included those wounded in action. The foundation serves to assist soldiers financially, including medical expenses. |
Angels of Mercy
Angels of Mercy photo Angels of Mercy is a charity sponsored by American Legion Post 270 of McLean, Va. Through the program, veterans provide material support for wounded warriors and their families, including those in combat hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan. They also visit troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center and provide for their long-term needs. |
Armed Forces FoundationThe Armed Forces Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., through its Injured Support Services program, supports wounded warriors and their families with regular hospital visits to National Naval Medical Center, Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the H.H. McGuire Veterans Affairs Hospital. The program provides monthly dinners, free lodging for wounded warrior families and arranges celebrity hospital visits. Azalea Charities Aid for
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Back in the Saddle Bit by BitBased on Colorado ranches, Back in the Saddle Bit by Bit (BITS) treats combat wounded service members for injuries and post traumatic stress disorder with the use of horses. Under the supervision of certified doctors, therapists and instructors, BITS works to raise wounded warriors’ self-esteem, coordination, problem-solving, balance and strength through horseback riding, including opportunities for showmanship. Blue Star RidersBlue Star Riders is a nonprofit corporation to honor and support those wounded during a time of war. Members visit hospitals and outreach centers; they also attend funerals for fallen heroes and veteran events in efforts to raise awareness of the fallen and wounded warriors. |
Bob Woodruff Family FundThe Bob Woodruff Family Fund helps to ensure that wounded warriors and their families have access to a lifetime of state-of-the-art treatment options, education, employment opportunities and other long-term support to help them reintegrate into their communities. A board of volunteers governs the fund, founded by journalist Bob Woodward after he suffered a traumatic brain injury from a roadside bomb in 2006 in Iraq. Bryan McDonough Military Heroes FoundationThe Bryan McDonough Military Heroes Foundation supports soldiers adjusting to life with the physical and psychological wounds of war. |
Building Homes for Heroes
Building Homes for Heroes photo Building Homes for Heroes is a nonprofit organization that raises money from corporate sponsors and other donations to build homes handicapped-accessible homes for disabled wounded veterans in dire need. |
Comfort for America’s
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Defenders of Freedom
Defenders of Freedom photo Defenders of Freedom is a nonprofit organization that raises money to support deployed troops and wounded warriors and their families, providing encouragement, emotional and physical support. |
Disabled Sports USADisabled Sports USA is a nonprofit organization established by disabled Vietnam veterans to serve troops injured and permanently disabled in war by providing a nationwide sports rehabilitation program that includes activities such as winter skiing, water sports, fitness and special sports events. Enable AmericaEnable America is a nonprofit organization that sponsors VetConnect, a program designed to enhance existing rehabilitation programs for wounded veterans and to actively engage local civic, business, and community leaders in the reorientation of wounded warriors to their communities. |
Family and Friends for Freedom Fund
Family and Friends for Freedom Fund photo The mission of the Family and Freedom Fund is to provide financial aid to wounded U.S. Marines and their families, including those who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder as a result of combat service, and for troops serving in other branches of the military as the need arises. |
Fisher HouseFisher House™ Foundation donates "comfort homes," built on the grounds of major military and Veterans Administration medical centers, so that family members can be closed to wounded or ill warriors undergoing medical treatment. Freedom is Not FreeFreedom is Not Free is a charitable organization that provides grants to individuals and to organizations that offer programs that benefit wounded warriors, their families and the families of the fatally wounded. Give an HourGive an Hour is a nonprofit organization that provides free mental health counseling to wounded warriors, active-duty servicemembers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families. Golfers for FreedomGolfers for Freedom is a nonprofit organization that provides aid and comfort to wounded veterans recuperating at the Balboa Naval Hospital, including clothing, blankets, amenities and direct requests. |
Grateful American Coin
Grateful American Coin photo Grateful American Coin is a nonprofit organization that raises money to help wounded warriors through the sale of specially designed coins, donating 100 percent of the net proceeds of the purchase to an organization of your choice that supports wounded warriors. |
Helping Our Heroes FoundationHelping Our Heroes Foundation is a nonprofit organization that assists wounded warriors by providing patient advocates, identifying and funding educational opportunities, coordinating specialty counseling (financial assistance, career, housing, etc.) and assisting with emergency funding. Hire Heroes USA
'Creating The Opportunity' video Hire Heroes USA is a nonprofit organization that offers free skills and career matching to link wounded veterans and transitioning troops to partner companies with job openings. |
Homes for Our Troops
"Welcome Home for SGT Eric Edmundson"
video Homes for Our Troops is a nonprofit organization that assists severely injured troops and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and coordinating the process of building a new home or adapting an existing home for handicapped accessibility. |
Injured Marine Semper Fi FundThe Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund is a nonprofit organization that provides financial assistance and quality of life solutions to U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors injured in combat, training or who have a life-threatening illness by helping families to defray expenses incurred during hospitalization, rehabilitation and recovery, as well as with the purchase of specialized equipment, adaptive vehicles and home purchases and modifications. Intrepid Fallen Heroes FundOriginally founded to provide grants to families of fallen heroes, the nonprofit Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund changed its mission to one of serving severely wounded warriors with the passage of a new benefits law. The IFHF now operates a state-of-the-art physical rehabilitation program at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. |
Lakeshore Foundation – Lima Foxtrot ProgramsThe nonprofit Lakeshore Foundation’s Lima Foxtrot Programs provide a comprehensive program of fitness, recreation, sport and transition support for recently injured U.S. military personnel. Landstuhl Hospital Care ProjectThe Landstuhl Hospital Care Project is a nonprofit organization that provides comfort and relief items for military members who become sick, injured, or wounded from service in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan. Donated items are distributed to patients at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) in Germany, the largest American military hospital outside the United States; to field hospitals in Afghanistan and Iraq; and to Veterans Administration facilities in the United States. |
Mental Health Self-Assessment ProgramThe Mental Health Self-Assessment Program® offers troops and their families anonymous, mental health and alcohol use self-assessments online, via the phone, and through special events held at installations. The program is designed to help people identify their symptoms and get help before a problem becomes serious. Mikes Guardian Eagle FoundationThis nonprofit organization, founded in memory of Michael Lehmiller, who was killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 21, 2005, offers financial assistance to military personnel who are in need due to deployment, injury or death as well as courses in financial responsibility and debt-free living. |
Military Spouse Pinnacle Foundation
Deb Kloeppel is pictured in this photo with her husband, The Pinnacle Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides occupational training to develop easily transferable job skills, career guidance and rapid job placement for transitioning wounded warriors and their families, and military spouses. The Pinnacle Foundation is affiliated with the Military Spouse Corporate Career Network. |
Operation Family FundOperation Family Fund is a nonprofit organization founded to assist the injured and families of those who have been injured or killed as a part of the Global War on Terrorism, whether domestic or abroad, military or civilian, with financial grants for transitioning to their new circumstances and achieving financial self-sufficiency. Operation First ResponseThe Mission of Operation First Response Inc., a nonprofit organization, is to support wounded veterans and their families with personal and financial needs including rent or mortgage payments, utility payments, vehicle payments and repairs, groceries, clothing and transportation to medical facilities. Operation Helping HEALOperation Helping HEAL Inc. is a nonprofit organization that provides financial assistance to wounded service men and women returning from current overseas military operations. Operation HomefrontOperation Homefront is a nonprofit charity that provides emergency assistance and support to benefit the morale of troops and wounded warriors, including an emergency aid program, a computer program to allow families to keep in touch, a financial assistance program, a furniture donation program, moving services and a social outreach program. |
Operation Life TransformedOperation Life Transformed is a nonprofit organization that provides funding for virtual or classroom credited training and education for wounded servicemembers and their caregivers, and military spouses. Operation Second ChanceOperation Second Chance is a nonprofit organization that assists wounded service men and women with recovery and rehabilitation, helps modify houses to accommodate disabled veterans and facilitates the transition of wounded warriors into civilian life. Operation Support Our Troops IllinoisOperation Support Our Troops Illinois’s mission is to support the needs active-duty deployed troops and wounded warriors at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany by providing care packages of items not readily available in the field along with personal letters, cards and notes of support. |
Operation: Quiet ComfortOperation Second Chance is a nonprofit organization that assists wounded service men and women with recovery and rehabilitation, helps modify houses to accommodate disabled veterans and facilitates the transition of wounded warriors into civilian life. Our Military Kids
"OMK - From the Heart"
video Our Military Kids provides support to the children of deployed and severely injured National Guard and Military Reserve personnel through grants for enrichment activities and tutoring that nurture and sustain the children during the time a parent is away in service. (Has video) |
Paws for Patriots
Paws For Patriots™ Program video Sponsored by Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc., Paws for Patriots serves veterans blinded or otherwise injured in Iraq and Afghanistan by partnering them with professionally trained guide dogs and therapy dogs. Veterans with visual impairments receive 26 days of instruction at SGD’s Palmetto, Florida, campus – and lifetime follow up and support. Pentagon Federal Credit Union FoundationThe Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation is a nonprofit national charity working to meet the unmet needs of military personnel and their families in the areas of financial literacy, housing and the support for wounded. |
Project TLC: Serving Those Who ServeProject TLC delivers "Guardian Angel Bags" to cheer injured service members transitioning through Germany. Project VictoryThe Institute for Rehabilitation and Research Foundation the Memorial Hermann|TIRR Challenge Program have joined together to provide rehabilitative care for military service members injured in Afghanistan and Iraq. The program, Project Victory, seeks to enable soldiers with a traumatic brain injury regain skills and functions that were lost through their injury. Purple Heart (Military Order of the Purple Heart of the USA)The mission of the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the USA is to provide service, welfare and rehabilitation assistance to wounded, disabled or handicapped veterans and their widows, orphans or survivors. |
Road 2 Recovery
Mike McNaughton running with President Bush Sponsored by the Fitness Challenge Foundation in partnership with the Veterans Administration Volunteer Service Office, Road 2 Recovery hosts spinning and outdoor cycling programs as rehabilitation to help veterans recover from mental and physical war injuries. Program participants include world champion cyclists Greg LeMond, Mari Holden and others. |
Salute Military Golf Association
Redskin Great Brig Owens, Joey Bozik, and OGP Owner Tim Landres. Photo from SMGA The Salute Military Golf Association, based at Olney Golf Park in Maryland, provides rehabilitative golf experiences -- equipment, lessons and tournaments -- for veterans wounded in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan in a program that has been recognized by the PGA of America. Sentinels of Freedom
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Serving Those Who ServeServing Those Who Serve is an extension of Rebuilding Together, a nonprofit group that rebuilds and refurbishes homes for low-income homeowners. Serving Those Who Serve modifies and repairs the homes of servicemembers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sew Much ComfortSew Much Comfort provides adaptive clothing free of charge to support the unique needs of injured service members. The custom-made clothing accommodates medical devices and situations, including casts, prosthetics, burns and shrapnel wounds, provides ease of use, increases personal independence and minimizes the visual impact of the medical condition. Silver Star Families of America
Silver Star Families of America video Silver Star Families of America supports injured veterans of all military wars and conflicts by providing assistance to individuals, as well as educating the public about war injuries and advocating for disabled veterans. |
Soldiers' AngelsSoldiers' Angels has 200,000 volunteers in more than 20 different teams and programs who provide assistance to the wounded, continuing support for veterans, remembrances and comfort for families of the fallen, and immediate response to unique difficulties. They also provide letters, care packages and comfort items to the deployed, and support for their families here at home. Soldiers ProjectThe Soldiers Project is a nonprofit organization provides free psychological treatment to military servicemembers: active duty, National Guard, Reserves and veterans who have served, or expect to serve, in Operation Enduring Freedom and/or Operation Iraqi Freedom. Treatment also is offered free of charge to servicemembers’ families and loved ones. Still Serving VeteransStill Serving Veterans helps returning war veterans re-integrate into the American workplace and communities through counseling, coaching, guidance, job assistance and help with securing Veterans Administration benefits. Strikeouts for TroopsFounded by San Francisco Giants’ pitcher Barry Zito, Strikeouts for Troops is supported by the donations of major league baseball players who donate money for every strikeout, homerun or RBI secured. The money raised is used to help wounded veterans treated at military hospitals nationwide and pays for airfare and lodging for family members, personal items, holiday meals and babysitting services. Support Our Soldiers AmericaSupport Our Soldiers America provides free vacations for wounded warriors to its country retreat vacation spot about 30 miles from Galveston, Texas. |
Tee It Up For the Troops
"Tee It Up for the Troops - KARE 11" video Tee It Up For the Troops salutes Iraq and Afghanistan veterans by, each year, marking the closest Friday to Sept. 11 as a National Day of Golf. Money raised from the event finances support for veterans of those wars. |
U.S. Army Wounded Warrior ProgramThe U.S. Army Wounded Warrior Program, formerly known as the Disabled Soldier Support System, is an outreach program that provides severely wounded soldiers and their families with a system of advocacy and personal support. AW2 integrates existing programs -- in and out of the Defense Department -- to provide personalized services for soldiers wounded in the war on terror. U.S. Welcome Home FoundationThe United States Welcome Home Foundation is a nonprofit organization that serves as a broker of services with organizations providing funding, services and resources for military service members, veterans and their families. The organization also sponsors educational and therapeutic retreats to mitigate and manage the effects of physical, social, spiritual and economic wounds suffered as a result of combat service. |
USA Cares
USA Cares video USA Cares exists to help soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines through financial tu m ujough times. The nonprofit group provides grants to the families of servicemembers who are deployed in support of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. USA Cares assistance includes preventing home foreclosures and evictions and helping with other bills during a financial crisis. |
Vacation for VeteransVacations for Veterans is a nonprofit organization created to provide recently wounded veterans of the United States Armed Forces with a week of free lodgings donated by a vacation homeowner. Vet Dogs
Vet Dogs photo by Christopher Appoldt America’s VetDogs, a subsidiary of the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, offers guide and service dogs to veterans of all eras. A major component of the program is to provide service dogs to members of the military recently wounded in combat. The group also has deployed therapy dogs in Iraq working in conjunction with the U.S. Army to relieve combat stress in the field. |
Veteran Love and Appreciation FundVeteran Love understands that there can be a substantial delay in the discharge from active duty and the payment of VA benefits. This is where Veteran Love steps in to help by providing for veterans’ essential, day to day needs. Veterans Airlift CommandThe Veterans Airlift Command provides free air transportation to wounded warriors, veterans and their families for medical and other compassionate purposes through a nationwide network of volunteer pilots and aircraft owners. Veterans' Families United FoundationVeterans’ Families United Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded by the mother of a veteran who served in Iraq to assist returning veterans and their families in healing through by providing a comprehensive list of support services and resources and a family support network. Warrior FoundationThe mission of The Rick Roberts Warrior Foundation, a nonprofit organization through the Navy League, is to help wounded and disabled military veterans. |
Watering Seeds OrganizationWatering Seeds Organization is a nonprofit organization created to provide recreational and athletic opportunities for physically challenged individuals and veterans, raising awareness and funding to provide adaptive sports equipment education and training. Wounded EOD Warrior FoundationThe Wounded EOD Warrior Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides resources and support for wounded explosive ordnance disposal personnel and their families, including providing plane fare, accommodations, food vouchers and associated travel expenses so that military families can care for their loved ones at military medical facilities. Wounded Heroes FoundationThe nonprofit Wounded Heroes Foundation provides care packages to injured men and women of the armed forces, and through charitable contributions, provides financial and other assistance in situations where the military is not equipped or unable to assist. The Yellow Ribbon FundThe Yellow Ribbon Fund, a nonprofit organization created in early 2005, assists injured servicemembers and their families who care for them while they recuperate at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center. |
The 4E NetworkThe 4E Network -- enable, encourage, engage, empower – supports veterans returning home to New Jersey from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
The 9-11 Help America FoundationThe 9-11 Help America Foundation identifies and helps the specific needs of military families affected by the terrorism of Sept. 11, 2001. |
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