Veterans Charities

The Wounded Warrior Project is a great charity providing a wide range of services to our veterans. They get federal and state level servicemember and veteran friendly laws and regulations passed.

Wounded Warriors Family Support  mission is to provide support to the families of those who have been wounded, injured, or killed during combat operations. The families of our casualties suffer in many ways: some physically, some psychologically.  

The USO  

chartered by Congress, but is not a part of the federal government. Since 1941, it has provided care packages, entertainment, and recreation-type services to military members and their families. It operates more than 135 centers worldwide, including 10 mobile canteens in the U.S. and overseas.

Services include free Internet and email access, libraries and reading rooms, housing assistance, family crisis counseling, support groups, game rooms and nursery facilities.

The Fisher House Foundation builds comfort homes for military & veteran families to stay free of charge, while a loved one is in the hospital. These facilities are located at military and VA medical centers globally.

 Thanks USA provides need-based college, technical, and vocational school scholarships and pathways to employment for children and spouses of our troops. 

The Disabled  American Veterans Charitable Service Trust supports physical and psychological rehabilitation programs that provide direct service to ill, injured or wounded veterans. The programs support everything from driver’s rehabilitation services for veterans with traumatic brain injuries, to treatment for post-service mental health services.

The Trust also helps to fund programs that provide food, shelter, and other necessary items to homeless or at-risk veterans and their familie

 Home for Our Troops Helps severely injured veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. The organization builds mortgage-free and specially adapted houses for multiple amputees and veterans with traumatic brain injuries. It also adapts existing homes for handicap accessibility. Home for Our Troops has built nearly 170 homes since its founding, with another 50 currently underway. 

Puppies Behind Bars has a great program; Dog Tags®: Service Dogs for Those Who’ve Served US® was established by Puppies Behind Bars (PBB) in 2006 to provide service dogs to combat veterans returning home from Iraq (OIF) and Afghanistan (OEF) who have suffered a physical injury, including traumatic brain injury (TBI) or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).