The strategically selected operational partnerships we have with qualified charities play a key role in making a direct impact on the lives of Veterans and their families.
Operational Partners
Project OVAT
Project OVAT is a charitable organization that focuses on the legal and medical support of Veterans who are attempting to navigate the Veterans Administration disability programs. Veterans who are assisted by Project OVAT will not have the burden of bills, costs or fees commonly associated with their fight for what they have earned and deserve. Our organization proactively covers these costs entirely through charitable funds. Once these matters are complete, each beneficiary Veteran will join an Advisory Board and assist Project OVAT select the next Veteran to support.
Veterans Multi-Service Center
The Veterans Multi-Service Center (VMC) was founded in 1980 by local Vietnam Veterans, who built a memorial along the Philadelphia waterfront and discovered a sense of community unparalleled. Since then, their innovative programs have grown to serve over 6,500 Veterans and families annually throughout the tri-state area providing assistance with employment/training, housing, benefits/entitlements, clothing, meals, and fellowship.
Quantum Leap Farm
Our mission is to improve quality of life and inspire personal growth through equine-assisted therapies. Many service members suffer the effects of post-traumatic stress (PTS) and/or traumatic brain injuries (TBI) resulting from war. Equine-assisted therapy can significantly benefit these men and women as they heal and reintegrate into civilian life. Quantum Leap Farm’s peaceful environment provides the perfect setting for a truly healing and transforming experience for our service members.
SOF Missions
SOF Missions goal is to empower Veterans to find purpose and be resilient. SOF Missions aims to provide premier whole health programs to “at risk” Veterans; changing lives and building strong families. They offer a unique approach to combat Veteran suicide through a whole health intradisciplinary method. The Resiliency Project is a four-pillar program that addresses the areas of psychological, physical, spiritual, and social wellness.
Warrior Canine Connection
Warrior Canine Connection utilizes a Mission Based Trauma Recovery model to help recovering Warriors reconnect with life, their families, their communities, and each other. Warrior Canine Connection is an accredited member of Assistance Dogs International (ADI), a global organization that establishes and promotes standards of excellence in all areas of assistance dog acquisition, training and partnership.
Leashes of Valor
Leashes of Valor is a national nonprofit that provides highly-trained service dogs to post-9/11 Veterans to help with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI) or military sexual trauma (MST), an underlying trauma to PTSD. Whenever possible, we source dogs from animal shelters and rescue organizations. Our goal is to enrich and improve the lives of both Veterans and dogs: One leash saves two lives.
Home Base Florida
Home Base Florida is dedicated to healing the invisible wounds of war – such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), anxiety, depression, and co-occurring substance use – for Veterans, Service Members and their Families through world-class clinical care, wellness, education, and research. All services are provided at no cost to the participant or family.
Project Refit
Project Refit believes combating isolation by building the community of the future will reduce suicide rates among the military and first responder communities. Project Refit is looking to change the negative connotation around mental health. Project Refit is doing this by helping implement and support simple, make sense programs for a military member (past/present) and first responder. We incorporate family into these programs, as well as, creating programs for only military and first responders.
The Bar X Project
Our mission is to reunite Post 9/11 combat Veterans with their former units in order to reestablish the special bond forged in combat and equip them for personal and professional success. It is our belief at The Bar X Project that re-establishing the special bond forged in combat overseas is an untapped avenue to combatting PTSD and helping Marines return to normal life. Reestablishing this bond serves to remind veterans of their worth to their brothers-in-arms and help them realize their unlimited value and potential as they transition into civilian life.
Consequence of Habit (CoH)
Consequence of Habit Inc. (CoH) is a certified 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to empowering individuals and communities by bringing awareness to the impact habits have on our mental health, success and the environment. Our strategies to accomplish this mission starts with the Consequence of Habit Podcast, hosted by CoH Founder, JT Frank. CoH Podcast explores how habits relate to happiness & success, or lack thereof. JT pulls the curtains back on his own habits, good and bad, and talks to others who have made changes in their lives by changing their habits.
Defender Mobility
Our mission as a veteran charity is to give back to our military heroes. They’ve given everything to defend us and protect our freedom. It’s time to return the favor – one chair at a time! Defender Mobility, a 501(c)3 non-profit Organization is on a mission to change that. We are determined to change the future of our disabled Veterans – the ones that served with bravery and honor, and silently returned home to live peacefully with their families. Our sights are set on giving our nation’s heroes back their freedom, as they have selflessly protected ours, one chair at a time.
DOVE Transplant
Donor Outreach to Veterans (DOVE) Transplant’s goal is to find, educate, screen and support prospective living donors and then match those donors to a Veteran awaiting transplant. We promote living kidney donation through nationwide campaigns and outreach events with the aim to create a living donor registry of prospective donors. We also provide individualized support to any eligible Veteran who is actively listed for a kidney transplant at any US Transplant Center in creating an outreach campaign within their networks and community.
Operation Encore
Operation Encore is a non-profit Veterans organization that provides opportunities for Veteran and active duty singer-songwriters and musicians to take their music to the next level through artist development, professional recording, and industry-focused educational services. We seek out talent from across the military and Veteran communities to produce and highlight their original music and provide opportunities to showcase their talents and advance their careers.
Spectracare Foundation
The Spectracare Foundation is dedicated to its mission to develop and provide quality charitable, educational, and support service within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. We support and pursue research, education and training that enhances community, family and individual growth and protection from harm. We engage in public fundraising and in the design and implementation of our own program initiatives, as well as support those of like-minded organizations to accomplish shared quality impact.
Michael Strange Foundation
The foundation will provide unconditional support and services to the families of recently fallen service members by professionals in several fields and also by those who have suffered similar losses so that the healing process can begin.
The Cohen Clinic
The Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic (Cohen Clinic) at Easterseals provides high-quality and accessible behavioral healthcare focused on post-9/11 veterans, active-duty service members, their families, and caregivers in DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Trained and credentialed staff at the Cohen Clinic use evidence-based practices with a holistic approach to improve the quality of life for people with military backgrounds and their families. We also help connect veteran families to community resources and services, as necessary.
Dogs Inc
Southeastern Guide Dogs is now Dogs Inc. Your highly-skilled service dog will change your life, boost your confidence, and restore your freedom. You’ll get the healthiest, best-behaved dog with a top-notch pedigree and thousands of hours of training. And you don’t pay anything! We provide your dog, online and in-person training, lifetime alumni support, dog food, and preventative veterinary care at no cost.
Rest for Heroes
Restoration, Inc’s mission is to give veterans a new vision on life after service through mentorship and recreational therapy in the great outdoors. We provide once in lifetime retreats and a lifelong mentorship allowing the veteran couple to become more successful inside their communities. We use the SMEAC formula. A “SMEAC” is how a preplanned military operation is planned to achieve a successful outcome.
Warrior Rising
Warrior Rising empowers U.S. military veterans and their immediate family members by providing them opportunities to create sustainable businesses, perpetuate the hiring of fellow American veterans, and earn their future. The Warrior Rising team has a singular goal: transform Veterans into Vetrepreneurs. We have achieved this through carefully selecting strategic partners in business, and leveraging a vast network of young professionals and successful entrepreneurs from a wide variety of backgrounds.
Patriot Point
Patriot Point is the Military Bowl Foundation’s 294-acre retreat that provides a safe, secure and tranquil outdoor recreational retreat facility for wounded, ill, and injured active duty service members, veterans, their families and caregivers who face daily struggles related to their time spent defending our great nation.
Fort Freedom
Fort Freedom’s mission is to minimize the Veteran suicide rate, free Veterans from the imprisonment of PTSD, and guide them to a newfound sense of purpose through an intensive 12-week life-restoring program developed by Veterans for Veterans. Fort Freedom offers an intensive 12-week life-restoring program developed by Veterans, for Veterans. We take a holistic approach supported by fitness, nutrition, trauma therapy and other wellness-based services. This program provides Veterans with the tools and support needed to take control of their lives.
Amazonian Warrior Foundation
In progress of providing temporary housing through the use pop up campers to fill the gap until a more permanent housing option is available Providing Peer to Peer Support groups through the use of Board sports. Stuck points are worked through and we then come back into our body to experience the joy of One wheels, Snowboarding, Paddle boarding, and Surfing. Release of Burden Hikes allow Veterans to release burdens through a supported therapeutic hike. Check out our Release of Burden Hike tab to find out more.
Gold Star Gamers
Gold Star Gamers mission is to help kids that have suffered the loss of a military parent find hope and healing through competitive gaming. When a child loses a parent, their whole world changes. They experience a huge drop in self-esteem, are at-risk for PTSD and suicidal thoughts. The kids tend to worry about their surviving parent and experience separation anxiety. School grades go down, friends are lost, and the future becomes unknown. Through Gold Star Gamers programs, we reach these kids on their level and their terms.