America Supports You
As a member of the America Supports You Caucus, I highly encourage you to visit this incredible organizations’ website to find out how you can support the troops and their families. This is one of the most comprehensive websites available offering a one-stop location for citizens and service members to connect with hundreds of organizations that assist in countless ways. The following organizations represent just a few of the very worthy causes in which you can participate.
America Supports You is a Department of Defense program that provides opportunities for citizens to show their support for the US Armed Forces. The program was launched in 2004 in an effort to highlight citizen support for our military men and women and communicate that support to the members of our Armed Forces at home and abroad.
This program connects individuals, organizations and companies to hundreds of homefront groups offering a variety of support to the military community. America Supports You also connects military service members and their families to homefront groups that provide assistance.
Homes for Our Troops
Homes for Our Troops is a non-partisan, non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization founded in 2004. This organization is strongly committed to helping those who have selflessly given to their country and have returned home with serious disabilities and injuries. Homes for Our Troops assist severely injured Servicemen and Women 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.
The Fisher House™ Program
The Fisher House™ program is a unique private-public partnership that supports America's military in their time of need. The program recognizes the special sacrifices of our men and women in uniform and the hardships of military service by meeting a humanitarian need beyond that normally provided by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
Because members of the military and their families are stationed worldwide and must often travel great distances for specialized medical care, Fisher House™ Foundation donates "comfort homes," built on the grounds of major military and VA medical centers. These homes enable family members to be close to a loved one at the most stressful times - during the hospitalization for an unexpected illness, disease, or injury.
Annually, the Fisher House™ program serves more than 10,000 families, and have made available nearly 2.5 million days of lodging to family members since the program originated in 1990. By law, there is no charge for any family to stay at a Fisher House operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs; and Fisher House Foundation uses donations to reimburse the individual Fisher Houses operated by the Army, Navy, and Air Force. No family pays to stay at any Fisher House!** The
Fisher House™ program also sponsors Scholarships for Military Children, the Hero Miles program, and co-sponsors the Newman's Own Award.
Operation Thank You
Operation Thank You / So Help Me God Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan organization that inspires faith, promotes patriotism, and supports the troops by providing inspirational and patriotic resources and programs that honor God, Country, servicemembers, veterans, and their families.
Projects:
• Operation Thank You is a special project to provide 150,000 troops with a signed card filled with heartfelt messages of support and encouragement.
• Remembering the Fallen is a project to support families who have lost a loved one in the war.
• So Help Me God is a special project to honor new chaplains in the U.S. Armed Forces.
America’s Vet Dogs
The VetDogs project is a new program from the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc. The VetDogs project will train and supply guide dogs for the visually impaired veteran and service dogs for those who have disabilities other than blindness. In addition, training on Trekker, an orientation aid that uses GPS technology and digital maps to help blind and visually impaired people navigate unfamiliar territory, is also being offered. The Guide Dog Foundation plans to be the standard by which the military and the VA measure assistance dog providers, and VetDogs is our way of recognizing the sacrifice made by our men and women in uniform. All of our services are provided at no cost to the veteran.
Sew Much Comfort
Sew Much Comfort provides adaptive clothing free of charge to support the unique needs of our injured service members from all branches of the military and national guard. The need for adaptive clothing continues to grow as American military members are injured serving their country. Each week, many wounded military members arrive in the States from Germany for extensive medical treatment for bullet and shrapnel wounds, burns, head and limb injuries and amputations, while tens of thousands are still in the recovery process. These medical conditions require large fixator, prosthetics and casts that are too bulky to fit under ordinary clothing or underwear. S
Sew Much Comfort is the only organization providing adaptive clothing in large volumes to attempt to meet those special needs.
Operation Homefront
Operation Homefront provides emergency assistance and morale to our troops, to the families they leave behind, and to wounded warriors when they return home. A nonprofit 501(c)3 founded after September 11, Operation Homefront leads more than 4,000 volunteers in 31 chapters nationwide. Since its inception, Operation Homefront has provided critical assistance to more than 45,000 military families in need.
Operation Homefront provides aid to families struggling not only with emergencies, but also the problems of everyday life. Existing programs include: Emergency Aid, Computer Program, Financial Assistance Program, Furniture Program, Moving support, and Social Outreach
The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors is the non-profit Veterans Service Organization offering hope, healing, comfort and care to all those who are grieving the death of a loved one in the Armed Forces. TAPS receives absolutely no government funding, but through the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, all families faced with a death of a loved one serving in the Armed Forces receive information about TAPS and our military survivor programs.
Flags Across the Nation
Flags Across The Nation makes a difference six years after the events of 9/11/2001. As a volunteer organization, Flags Across The Nation promotes patriotism through the arts. The programs foster love of the United States of America, respect for the American flag and support for our troops, wounded warriors and veterans. Flags Across The Nation creates opportunities for children and adults to get involved in creating patriotic art, letter writing, making blankets and demonstrating respect for the American flag while giving support to our troops, wounded warriors and veterans with art, letters, blankets, flags and art/photo exhibits.
