Everyone for Veterans strives to bring communities together to support our nation’s heroes with an uncommon goal: to provide comprehensive dental services and care to those who have served our country.
Homes for our Troops is a veterans nonprofit organization that does just what you would expect. They have already built 317 homes and are currently working on 66 more, made specifically for injured veterans. These homes are fully adapted for injured vets and exceed ADA compliance standards. The goal is to help vets gain the independence they have lost.
Operation Second Chance started in 2004 and serves veterans in Maryland, Virginia, and DC. Their founder, Cindy McGrew, took her personal experience working with injured vets at Walter Reed and turned it into a developing nonprofit.
Puppies Behind Bars made this list, even though it is not technically a veterans organization, because it supplies well-trained service dogs to injured veterans. This organization has worked to improve the lives of three groups: veterans, dogs, and prisoners. Too often, each of these groups is ignored and treated poorly.
Operation Homefront works to provide relief during these times and make sure short-term money problems do not grow into more.
Fisher House Foundation covers the expenses and provides comfortable homes for families and veterans during their time recovering from injuries received during military service.
Hope for the Warriors has taken on all of these projects and provided support for the families and caregivers of these soldiers. The following programs help this organization give veterans a chance to regain their independence and live healthy, happy civilian lives.
Yellow Ribbon Fund focuses on the caregivers of severely wounded post-911 veterans. The primary goal of this veterans organization is to keep families together during the recovery process. Also, to give support to those who care for our nation’s injured service members.
Gary Sinise Foundation provides injured veterans and first responders with adapted homes and equipment, caregiver training, and mental healthcare through partnerships with other organizations. While their efforts here are admirable, the organization also focuses on something a little different from the rest.
The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) is a service organization dedicated to building better lives for all our nation’s disabled veterans and their families. Its mission is providing free, professional assistance to veterans and their families in obtaining benefits and services earned through military service and provided by the government; providing outreach concerning its program services to the American people generally, and to disabled veterans and their families specifically; representing the interests of disabled veterans, their families, their widowed spouses, and their orphans before Congress, the White House, and the Judicial Branch, as well as state and local government; overseeing a network of state-level departments and local chapters; and providing a structure through which disabled veterans can express their compassion for their fellow veterans through a variety of volunteer programs.
Paralyzed Veterans of America is the only nonprofit Veteran Service Organization dedicated solely to helping Veterans with spinal cord injuries and disorders (SCI/D), and diseases, like MS and ALS.
Vietnam Veterans of America supports the full range of issues important to Vietnam Veterans to create a new identity for this generation of Veterans and change public perception. Their motto: “Never again will one generation of Veterans abandon another.” Explore Vietnam Veterans of America locations.
AMVETS enhances and safeguards entitlements for all American Veterans who have served honorably and aims to improve the quality of life for Veterans, their families, and the communities where they live through leadership, advocacy, and services. Search 1,400 AMVETS locations throughout the country
Paralyzed Veterans of America aims to change lives and build brighter futures for seriously injured Veterans and is dedicated to Veteran service, medical research, and civil rights for people with disabilities. There are 72 National Service Offices and 32 chapters that help empower Veterans.
