Building on lessons from service in four wars, Veterans for America galvanizes new war veterans nationwide, creating an empowered community and space to share common experiences. We raise awareness about challenges facing returning veterans and promote common-sense solutions. Our website and community blogs provide an active atmosphere to share experiences among those who understand their challenges. Veterans For America’s website serves as a unique portal...

Support Our Troops is no longer a slogan. It's an action. By taking action and donating to support our injured troops, your monetary contribution will fund reintegration programs for injured service members and their families as they transition back into society. Program funding includes: Health and wellness assessments, treatments, services and support; Equipment for medical, recreational, professional purposes; Modifications to a home, office, vehicle, or...

The Coalition has provided close to $1.5 million in emergency financial funding to injured war on terror veterans and their families. This financial aid has helped to pay rent, car loans, utility bills and other short-term needs. Your gift will help to prevent homelessness, joblessness due to lack of transportation, and eliminate utility shut-off crisis.

The Coalition has built 6 disability-adapted homes for either newly blind or paralyzed veterans. The Coalition is pursuing an alliance with two other organizations that will expand both the building of homes and home repair and modification to a larger portion of disabled veterans. Your gift will support The Coalition's efforts to provide adapted homes to disabled veterans.

The Coalition has hosted two conferences for close to 200 severely wounded Veterans and their families. These all-expenses paid events have provided education, career counseling, and a forum for sharing, relaxation, entertainment, and other assistance. Contributions can help to offset the cost of providing network seminars and allow for the continued all-expenses paid conferences, i.e., Disney Road to Recovery; the total outlay of which amounted...

The Coalition has given away 142 personal computers, organized holiday parties, paid airfare for families to visit their loved ones in the hospital, and given long distance calling cards and $500 gift cards to wounded troops. Your gift will help the Coalition provide a gift to honor an injured servicemember.

In 2006, the Coalition opened an office at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and is part of the Transition Employment Assistance Management Service (TEAMS). This group provides employment and transitioning assistance to service members and their military spouses. A gift can help to provide on-job pre-occupational training, online courses, which cost $500 - $600 per service member.

The Coalition has provided more than $36,000 in emergency financial funding to injured war on terror veterans and their families. For example, through the distribution of Wal-Mart Gift Cards the Coalition has been able to provide gasoline and groceries Your donation will purchase a gift card, which can help provide the gasoline and groceries, as well as cases of diapers, baby wipes and other personal...

Your gift will provide one specialized door handle for an injured veteran. These lever-type door handles eliminate the need to grasp the handle tightly to open a door.

Your gift will provide one self-cleaning toilet to an injured veteran, which will wash and dry eliminating the need for wiping. For a person with no arms or with prosthetics it is a necessity.

Your gift will provide one roll-in shower to an injured veteran, to help maintain their dignity by enabling them to get themselves in and out of the shower in privacy without needing additional help from others.

This gift will buy a 36" wide ADA compliant door which we will install and enable a veteran to enter his home without difficulty.

This gift will provide this direct assistance to homeless veterans nationwide on the 1-800-VET-HELP line for one day. Homeless veterans and those at risk of becoming homeless can access free guidance and referrals to service providers in their communities on any telephone in the country by calling 1-800-VET-HELP. Services available include emergency and transitional housing, medical and mental health services, employment preparation and job placement...

This gift will provide supervision of the National Stand Down program for one day. NCHV is the national coordinator of the Stand Down program. The staff monitors programs nationwide, maintains the Stand Down Registry so veterans and service providers can connect with programs in their communities, advocates for federal and corporate funding support and in-kind donations, and publishes the Stand Down Manual -- a tool...

Your gift will provide one hour of staff support for this comprehensive website designed to direct veterans who need help to the people who can provide it. The NCHV website records more than 45,000 visits each month from veterans in crisis and concerned family members who want to help them. The website offers information about both VA and community service providers, eligibility requirements, veteran-specific assistance...

This gift will provide one hour of consultation with members of Congress and their staffs on laws to create, provide funding for and expand veteran assistance programs. NCHV helped create the VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program -- the largest federal homeless veteran assistance program -- and the Department of Labor Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program, and helped write the Comprehensive Homeless Veteran Assistance...

This gift will provide 2 hours of research to identify the needs of homeless veterans and innovative approaches to addressing them. This is the foundation of NCHV's education and service network building initiatives. NCHV has helped fuel the development of innovative approaches to helping homeless veterans stand tall again. Learning about new programs that work, and sharing that information with service providers across the country...

This gift will provide 2 hours of NCHV staff work with developers and funders of affordable housing for veterans with mental and physical disabilities, and low income veterans who have completed their transitional programs. Creating housing opportunities for these veterans is a new frontier in the homeless veteran assistance community. Indeed, it is the success of the nation's transitional housing assistance programs that has focused...

Your gift will provide 2 hours of staff work to help steer potential housing and service providers to resources, capital, and experts in the field who can turn vision into reality. In partnership with other national organizations such as the Corporation for Supportive Housing, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Labor, State Directors of Veterans Affairs, and municipal public assistance agencies, NCHV...

This gift will provide 2 staff hours of work in support of women veterans' programs. Development of programs designed to help women is more critical now than at any other time in U.S. history. Historically, the VA has not had to provide services for women in the numbers that are presenting themselves because of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Approximately 4% of the homeless veterans...