Charities We Support
Air Compassion For Veterans
The mission and purpose of Air Compassion for Veterans is to ensure that wounded warriors and/or their adversely affected family members have on request access to charitable airline travel (or other forms of specialized medically related long-distance air/ground transportation) for purposes of medical consultation, evaluation, counseling or treatment including the many and diverse important activities involved in recovery, rehabilitation and reentry into a productive and fulfilling civilian life. Older veterans and/or their dependents needing travel for distant essential specialized medical care are similarly served.
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American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial
To honor the extreme sacrifices made to help sustain America’s values and to ensure these extraordinary actions are preserved…forever.
Center For American Values
To honor the extreme sacrifices made to help sustain America's values and to ensure these extraordinary actions are preserved...forever.
Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation
The mission of the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation is to perpetuate the Medal of Honor’s legacy of courage, sacrifice, selflessness and patriotism and to provide direct support to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society and its exclusive membership of living Medal of Honor recipients.
Disabled American Veterans
DAV empowers veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. It is dedicated to a single purpose: fulfilling our promises to the men and women who served. DAV does this by ensuring that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them; fighting for the interests of America’s injured heroes on Capitol Hill; and educating the public about the great sacrifices and needs of veterans transitioning back to civilian life. DAV, a non-profit organization with 1.2 million members, was founded in 1920 and chartered by the U. S. Congress in 1932.
Fisher House Foundation
Fisher House Foundation is best known for the network of comfort homes built on the grounds of major military and VA medical centers. The Fisher Houses are 5,000 to 16,800 square-foot homes, donated to the military and Department of Veterans Affairs, where families can stay while a loved one is receiving treatment. Additionally, the Foundation ensures that families of service men and women wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan are not burdened with unnecessary expense during a time of crisis.
Iraq or Afghanistan are not burdened with unnecessary expense during a time of crisis. Located in close proximity to the medical center or hospital it serves, each Fisher House consists of between 8 and 21 suites, with private bedrooms and baths. Families share a common kitchen, laundry facilities, spacious dining room and an inviting living room with a library and toys for children. Fisher House Foundation ensures that there is no fee to stay in a Fisher House. Since inception, the program has saved military and veteran families an estimated $165 million in out of pocket costs for lodging and transportation.
Fisher House Foundation operates the Hero Miles Program, using donated frequent flyer miles to bring family members to the bedside of injured service members. To date, Hero Miles has provided over 24,000 airline tickets to our military and their families. The Foundation also manages a grant program that supports other military charities and scholarship funds for military children, spouses and children of fallen and disabled veterans.
Ft. Worth Air Power Foundation-Sky Ball
To provide financial assistance to military families on a case-by-case basis, to financially support deployment and welcome home receptions and comfort gatherings for the families of deployed military and to provide financial support for the Welfare and Relief projects of the units assigned in North Texas. In addition, the Foundation supports the soldiers that have been wounded in battle and that are recuperating at military hospitals in Texas. This support comes in the form of care packages and other gifts, delivered in person by members of the Airpower Council. These visits and the tokens left behind serve to remind these brave men and women that their efforts and sacrifices are not in vain and that they are not forgotten.
GI Film Festival
The GI Film Festival, a 501(c)3 non-profit public education foundation, is the first and only film festival in the nation dedicated to the American Armed Forces. Our mission is to honor the successes and sacrifices of American GIs through the medium of film. For five days, over Armed Forces Weekend, we bring Hollywood and the military together to create a venue for artists to tell the story of the American veteran, both past and present. In 2010, the GI Film Festival was the recipient of the American Legion’s National Commander’s Public Relations Award, previously given to Tom Brokaw, Tim Russert, Lou Dobbs and Jack Valenti, to name a few prior recipients. On Veterans Day Weekend 2010, the GI Film Festival launched a brand new primetime television series on the Discovery Network’s Military Channel featuring GI Film Festival films. The Military Channel currently reaches 57 million homes nationwide.
Hope For The Warriors®
The mission of Hope For The Warriors® is to enhance quality of life for U.S. service members and their families nationwide who have been adversely affected by injuries or death in the line of duty. Hope For The Warriors® actively seeks to ensure that the sacrifices of wounded and fallen warriors and their families are never forgotten nor their needs unmet.
Independence Fund
To provide the tools, therapies and guidance that those veterans severely injured in the War on Terror are otherwise not receiving.
Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund
The Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund is nonprofit set up to provide immediate financial support for injured and critically ill members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families. We direct urgently needed resources to post 9-11 Marines and Sailors, as well as members of the Army, Air Force or Coast Guard who serve in support of Marine forces.
Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, a national leader in supporting the men and women of the United States Armed Forces and their families, has provided over $120 million in support for the families of military personnel lost in service to our nation, and for severely wounded military personnel and veterans. The Fund most recently opened the National Intrepid Center of Excellence to support the research, diagnosis, and treatment of military personnel and veterans suffering from traumatic brain injury.
Operation Gratitude
Tens of thousands of American Service Members are deployed in hostile and remote regions of the world, including the Middle East, Afghanistan, and on ships throughout international waters. The physical conditions they must endure are difficult and they may be separated from loved ones for long periods of time.
Operation Gratitude seeks to lift morale and put smiles on faces by sending care packages addressed to individual Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines deployed in harm’s way, to their children left behind and to Wounded Warriors recuperating in Transition Units. Operation Gratitude care packages contain food, hygiene products, entertainment items and personal letters of appreciation, all wrapped with good wishes of love and support.
Through Collection Drives, Letter Writing Campaigns and Donations of funds for shipping expenses, Operation Gratitude provides civilians anywhere in America a way to express their respect and appreciation to the men and women of the U.S. Military in an active, hands-on manner.
Operation Homefront
Operation Homefront (OH) provides emergency financial and other assistance to the families of our service members and wounded warriors.
Through generous, widespread public support and a collaborative team of exceptional staff and volunteers, we aspire to become the provider of choice for emergency financial and other assistance to the families of our service members and wounded warriors. Where there is a need we do not provide, we will partner with others for the benefit of our military families.
Operation International Children
Operation International Children (formerly Operation Iraqi Children) is a grass-roots program founded in early 2004 by actor Gary Sinise and author Laura Hillenbrand and joined in partnership with People to People International. Sinise and Hillenbrand created OIC to give concerned Americans a way to reach out to the war-stricken children of Iraq by supporting our troops in their efforts to assist them. Working directly with troops, OIC has delivered well over a quarter of a million school supply kits, along with more than half a million toys and thousands of blankets, backpacks, pairs of shoes, Arabic-language books, and sets of sports equipment, all of which have been distributed to children. OIC has expanded its mission, sending school supplies to Afghanistan and other nations, where American troops are distributing them to children in need.
Operation Support Our Troops America
Founded in 2003, Operation Support Our Troops – America has been a grassroots effort that’s blossomed into one of the largest volunteer based non-profit military support organizations in the country. We are dedicated to providing comfort and care at home and away to our active duty military, families and veterans. This is accomplished by providing a link between the citizens and military personnel so that everyone has the opportunity to express their support. This allows us to send comfort packages of items that are not readily available to our troops in their deployed locations, along with personal letters, cards and notes of support from the community at large. We are also dedicated to supporting our wounded service members, families and veterans through programs, support and facilitating awareness in various communities as to the needs of our troops.
People To People International
The purpose of People to People International is to enhance international understanding and friendship through educational, cultural and humanitarian activities involving the exchange of ideas and experiences directly among peoples of different countries and diverse cultures.
Snowball Express, Inc.
To create hope and new memories for the children of our fallen military heroes who have died while serving our country since 9/11.
Stephen Siller Tunnel To Towers Foundation
The Foundation has established In the Line of Duty Programs for Firefighters, First Responders, and Military & In the Name of Love programs for children in need, who have lost one or both parents, to make a lasting and positive difference in the lives of others.
TAPS-Tragedy Assistance Program For Survivors
TAPS provides ongoing emotional help, hope, and healing to all who are grieving the death of a loved one in military service to America, regardless of relationship to the deceased, geography, or circumstance of the death. TAPS meets its mission by providing peer-based support, crisis care, casualty casework assistance, and grief and trauma resources.
ThanksUSA
ThanksUSA is a non-partisan, charitable effort to mobilize Americans of all ages to “thank” the men and women of the United States armed forces. We’re doing that by providing need-based college, technical and vocational school scholarships for their children and spouses.
The FDNY Family Transport Foundation
We are dedicated to helping the Fire Family in its time of need by providing transportation to the families of injured, ill or deceased New York City Firefighters. We are also dedicated to promoting the greater good of the New York City Fire Department.
Every October, we host the Annual Blue Mass for Police Officers and Firefighters. Every September, we help and support the Annual Father Mychal Judge Walk of Remembrance. We are indebted to those who made the supreme sacrifice on 9-11-01. We honor them with the creation of Engine 343, which bears the names of the 343 New York City Firefighters, with three bronze plaques affixed to the inside of the hosebed.
United States Veterans Art Program
To increase the representation of veterans in the arts community.
We will achieve this mission by considering the following objectives:
- To provide “Artistic Tools” (musical instruments, painting supplies, art scholarships, cameras, computers, etc.) to wounded service members; and to bring visibility to the power of art and how it might bring cathartic inner solace for those Americans who have sacrificed in service to their country.
- To provide “Artistic Tools” (through veteran initiatives) to selected individuals who wish to continue their pursuit of artistic expression but are unable to do so, due to some aspect directly related to the consequences of war.
- To provide opportunities for US Veteran artists to collaborate with Vietnamese artists on artistic projects; to offer encouragement and support for the collaborative process particularly across cultural boundaries; and to positively bring together new and existing audiences to discover or rediscover the cultural and artistic traditions of both countries.
United Service Organization, Inc. - USO
The USO (United Service Organizations) lifts the spirits of America’s troops and their families millions of times each year at hundreds of places worldwide. We provide a touch of home through centers at airports and military bases, top quality entertainment and innovative programs and services. We also provide critical support to those who need us most, including forward-deployed troops and their families, wounded warriors and their families, and the families of the fallen. The USO is a private, non-profit organization, not a government agency. We rely on the generosity of our volunteers and donors. To join us in this patriotic mission and to learn more about the USO, please visit www.uso.org