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Charities that Support the Military and Families
- Operation Shower
This caring organization hosts joyful baby showers for military families across the country. The showers are an opportunity for military families to leave the stresses of deployment at home, come together and celebrate.
- Air Force Aid Society
Assists Airmen and eligible family members in emergencies and with education costs.
- Armed Services YMCA (ASYMCA)
Uses programs and services to support military and their families. These programs range from childcare, to food services, to deployment support, and even wounded warrior support, among others.
- National Military Family Association
This organization speaks up for military families, provides resources for active duty and their families, supports children and spouses in need, and so much more.
- Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society
Financial assistance and counseling, education assistance, disaster relief, assistance for emergency travel, and more.
- Operation Gratitude
Raises morale of military men and women who are deployed or providing disaster relief, by sending care packages addressed individually to servicemembers. Operation Gratitude has sent over 1 million care packages to those serving since 2003.
- Operation Homefront
Operation Homefront strives to assist military families with critical assistance, short-term and long-term stability assistance, and programs to offer families recurring support.
- Semper Fi
Provides immediate financial support to post 9/11 wounded and critically ill service members from all branches, as well as support for family members. Semper Fi Fund wants to ensure that these service members have the resources they need for recovery and transition back to civilian life.
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- Support Military Spouses
SMS provides military spouse care packages and assistance with managing finances, finding employment, balancing family life, caring for wounded warriors and honoring the memory of our fallen heroes.
- USA CARES
Offers “a hand up not a hand out” to service members, veterans, and survivors in need, and promises a response time of 48 hours to those who apply for financial assistance. Programs include assistance for combat-injured, emergency assistance, housing assistance, and jobs assistance.
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Charities that Support Veterans
- AMVETS
Supports veterans with their transition back into civilian life. AMVETS strives to continue improving and evolving based on the unique needs of the current generation of veterans transitioning to civilian life and stays flexible in order to help veterans to the best of their ability.
- Disabled American Veterans
A charity for disabled veterans that provides physical and psychological rehabilitation programs for veterans with PTSD, traumatic brain injury, amputated limbs, and other seriously disabling injuries.
- Hire Heroes USA
Helps transitioning servicemembers, veterans, and spouses across the US find good jobs. Impact lives by helping approximately 60 people per week find sustainable jobs.
- Homes For Our Troops
Builds specially adapted homes for post 9/11 veterans with physical impairments so they can quickly transition into civilian life. This privately funded organization builds every home mortgage free and has built over 200 homes for disabled veterans, in 42 states, since starting in 2004.
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- Honor Flight Network
Honors veterans by transporting veterans to Washington D.C. to visit memorials dedicated to their service in the U.S. Military. Currently, priority is given to WWII survivors and veterans with a terminal illness.
- National Veterans Foundation
Offers assistance for veterans and their families facing crisis, including a lifeline for vets. This charity for veterans also provides outreach programs for veterans in need, providing food, clothing, transportation and other resources. Finally, National Veterans Foundation uses programs to advocate awareness for the needs of veterans.
- Navy SEAL Foundation
Focused on easing the intensity of life for Navy SEALS and their families, Navy SEAL Foundation offers programs for Active Duty SEAL, Veterans, Families, and Survivors ranging from Educational Opportunities, to Survivor Support, and more. This charity has the highest possible financial rating.