From Sore to Soar

Organizations Supporting Military and Veteran Life

Military & Family

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Hotline for veterans 877-424-3838

Crisis line 800-273-8255 ext. 1

Advocacy & Resources

  • Active Heroes

  • Air Warrior Courage Foundation

    • Website: https://airwarriorcourage.org

    • Description: Meeting veteran and their family wherever the need is with financial assistance for medical, educational, and other extraordinary expense

  • American Corporate Partners

  • American Legion

  • Army Emergency Relief

    • Description: Zero-interest loans to soldiers and depends to help pay for emergency financial situations

  • Association of the United States Army (AUSA)

    • Website: https://www.ausa.org

    • Description: Nonprofit educational and professional development association serving America’s Army and supporters of a strong national defense, to educate, inform, and connect with soldiers, families, Army civilians, the voice for the army, and honoring those who served

  • * Children of Fallen Heroes Program

    • Website: https://www.fallenpatriots.org

    • Description: Scholarships to military families such as laptop computers to the children and spouses of military personnel who gave their lives in the ongoing conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan.

  • Children of Fallen Heroes (military, foster care, first responders)

    • Website: https://www.childrenoffallenheroes.org

    • Description: remember heroes, support groups, memorial activities, community outreach, resources and referrals, honoring heroes tour with professional parachute demonstration

  • Child Mind Institute

    • Website: https://childmind.org

    • Description: Support for children who are struggling with mental health, behavior, and learning challenges

  • Elizabeth Dole Foundation

  • Forgotten Not Gone

  • Helping Hands for Freedom (HHFF)

    • Website: https://www.helpinghandsforfreedom.org

    • Description: Emergency assistance to active duty, veterans, wounded veterans, and gold star families with honorable discharge experience dramatic life change, wounded, facing multiple deployments, killed in actions, and suffering from injuries in the line of duty. Children 18 or under must reside in the home. Assisting with emergency payments, housing costs, utilities, transit, car repairs, financial assistance

  • Hidden Heroes

    • Website: https://hiddenheroes.org

    • Description: serves combat wounded, critically ill, and catastrophically injured service members and families to inspire, and raise awareness for military caregiver issues, provides inspiration and a national registry to help find resources and support, applications for free respite care for someone who cares for a military spouse, child, parent, or friend; financial assistance through the Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation to caregivers on bring of homeless and hungry, struggling to pay bills, unexpected care costs, unpredictable benefits review application the first 10 days of each month

  • H.E.R.O.E.S. Care

    • Website: https://www.heroescare.org

    • Description: combines the power of national organizations dedicated to providing emergency financial aid, employment opportunities, and mental health care services through a network of specially trained caregivers before, during, and after deployment.

  • The Independence Fund

  • Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC)

    • Website: https://www.militarychild.org

    • Description: Supports all military-connected children by educating, advocating, and collaborating to resolve education challenges associated with the military lifestyle.

  • Military Housing Assistance Fund (MHAF)

    • Website: https://usmhaf.org

    • Description: Assists active military and veterans with purchasing a home

  • Military Child Education Coalition

    • Website: https://www.militarychild.org

    • Description: MCEC supports all military-connected children by educating, advocating, and collaborating to resolve education challenges associated with the military lifestyle. Program features include call for the Arts program, newsroom, guides for transition, milkids soar on-demand webinars

  • Military Spouse Jobs formally known as Military Spouse Corporate Career Network

    • Website: https://www.militaryspousejobs.org

    • Description: To increase job placement and career development for military spouses and family members through the elimination of employment obstacles. Increase job placement and career development for military spouses and family members through the elimination of employment obstacles.

  • The My Career Advancement Account Scholarship Program for Spouses (MyCAA)

    • Website: https://mycaa.medcertify.com

    • Description: $4000 spouse scholarship for active duty military, national guard and reserves on title 10 military orders (E1-E9, W-1 to W-2, and 0-1 to 0-3) used to pursue careers

  • Operation Homefront

    • Website: https://operationhomefront.org

    • Description: Provides veterans with the opportunity to move into an operational home front home, must be able to cover certain expenses such as property taxes, insurance, warranty, HOA fees, and $100 per month toward closing costs. OH also provides financial assistance to help military families get through their short-term, financial struggles such as emergency payments, help for food, utilities, car repair, vision care, and other financial assistance

  • The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

    • Website: https://www.nctsn.org

    • Description: Guidance and resources to support and navigate stress and trauma, find treatments and include a course on child and family stress intervention and information on deployments

  • Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (NMCRS)

    • Website: https://www.nmcrs.org

    • Description: Helps active duty and retired sailors and marines with financial assistance for emergency payments, food, healthcare, housing, utilities, financial assistance, financial education, loans and grants

  • Navy Seal Foundation

  • Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (NMCRS)

  • Packages for Warriors

  • Project New Hope

  • Semper Fi Fund

    • Website: Semperfifund.org

    • Description: Financial support that arise from hospitalization and recovery, adaptive housing, adaptive transportation, service member and family support, education and career transition assistance, PTS and TBI support, America’s Fund, Team Semper FI

  • Soldier’s Angel - Deployed Adoption Team

    • Website: https://soldiersangels.org

    • Description: Matches soldiers with an angel, sending 4 letters and one care package a month until the service member returns home

  • Salvation Army for Veteran Families (SSVF)

    • Website: https://www.salvationarmyusa.org

    • Description: Assists low-income veterans and their families in obtaining permanent stable housing through case management, peer mentoring, and advocacy, linkage to resources, training in life skills, coping skills, housing preparation, budgeting, credit counseling, legal services, job preparation, and employment search, financial assistance addressing housing barriers, mediation between landlord and tenants

  • Stand Beside Them

    • Website: https://www.standbesidethem.org

      Description: Free coaching in career development, leadership life and relationships, small business development, health and wellness

$ Funding Opportunities

  • Army Emergency Relief (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • Children of Fallen Heroes (see above) -

  • Helping Hands for Freedom (HHFF) (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • Hidden Heroes H.E.R.O.E.S. Care (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • The Independence Fund (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • The My Career Advancement Account Scholarship Program (MyCAA) (see above) - Scholarship for college

  • Operation Homefront (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • Salvation Army for Veteran Families (see above) - Financial Assistance

  • Semper Fi Fund (see above) - Financial Assistance

    * Tool Kits & More

  • Children of Fallen Heroes (see above) - computers

  • The National Child Traumatic Stress Network - course

  • Soldier’s Angel (see above) - care packages for soldiers

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