Organization / Grant Amount |
Grant Description |
Organization Description |
Fisher House Foundation, Inc.
Rockville, Md.
fisherhouse.org
Grant: $22.5 million
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1) Support to construct and furnish
eight Fisher houses, which provide
critically needed, no-cost lodging
and support for visiting families
of those wounded in Iraq and
Afghanistan, who are being treated
or are recovering at major Veterans
Affairs Hospitals and military medical
centers around the country.
2) To provide additional support of $2.5 million to
construct
more Fisher houses as described above. |
Because members of the military and their families are stationed worldwide and must often travel great distances for specialized medical care, Fisher House Foundation builds "comfort homes" on the grounds of major military and Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers. These homes enable family members to be close to a loved one during stressful times like hospitalization and rehabilitation for an unexpected illness, disease or injury. Annually, the Fisher House program serves more than 10,000 families, and have made available nearly three million days of lodging to family members since the program began in 1990. |
Homes for Our Troops
Taunton, Mass.
homesforourtroops.org
Grant: $13 million
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Four-year support to build customized homes for severely injured veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, that accommodate their specific physical disabilities and needs. |
Founded in 2004, Homes for Our Troops assists severely injured servicemen and servicewomen by coordinating and funding the process of building new homes or adapting existing ones for handicap accessibility. |
Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund
New York
fallenheroesfund.org
Grant: $22.25 million
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1) To support the provision and maintenance of physical rehabilitation software and equipment for the Center for the Intrepid, a new $40 million world-class, state-of-the-art physical rehabilitation center at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.
2) To provide state-of-the-art facilities and equipment for the world’s most advanced treatment and rehabilitation of combat-related traumatic brain injury, post traumatic stress, depression and other mental health outcomes of war at the new National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) on the grounds of the Bethesda Naval Hospital. |
Begun in 2000 under the auspices of the Intrepid Museum Foundation and established as an independent nonprofit organization in 2003, the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund has provided close to $60 million in support for the families of military personnel lost in service to our nation and for severely wounded military personnel and veterans.
A family is happily reunited outside of the Center for the Intrepid. (Photo courtesy of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund)
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Returning Heroes Home Inc.
San Antonio, Texas
returningheroeshome.org
Grant: $1,460,161
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Support to build the Warrior and Family Support Center (WFSC) Therapeutic Gardens, providing unprecedented access to the outdoors for the severely injured and burned OEF/OIF patients and their families at Brooke Army Medical Center and Center for the Intrepid; and to purchase both educational and recreational equipment for the WFSC, for use by patients and their families during long and grueling hospital stays. |
Returning Heroes Home, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 to build and support the new Warrior and Family Support Center, serving patients of the Brooke Army Medical Center and Center for the Intrepid at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. The organization’s board of directors includes local activists, business leaders and retired military personnel who worked tirelessly to partner with the U.S. Army and raise funds for the center, which opened in September 2009. |
Veteran Homestead Inc.
Fitchburg, Mass.
veteranhomestead.org
Grant: $4.5 million
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For construction of the Northeast Veteran Training and Rehabilitation Center, a LEED-certified residential,
educational and therapeutic
community utilizing the clinical,
educational, recreational and
psychosocial support resources of
the Mount Wachusett Community
College campus in Gardner, Mass.
The center will provide customized
therapies and life skills support
to injured and traumatized OIF
and OEF veterans and their families
making the transition back to
civilian community life. |
Veteran Homestead, Inc. was founded in 1993 to provide long-term residential care and individualized medical, psychological and spiritual care to previously homeless veterans who are injured, ill, elderly, disabled or otherwise in need. It operates five facilities in New England and Puerto Rico, including a small, sustainable, organic working farm in New Hampshire that provides a therapeutic program helping veterans reintegrate into society and the workforce. |
