Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund Grants
The following is a list of grants that have been made from the fund to aid military personnel of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Programs are nationwide and support is for one year unless indicated otherwise in the grant purpose.
Capital Projects
Organization |
Grant |
Grant Description |
Fisher House Foundation, Inc.
Rockville, MD
www.fisherhouse.org
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$20 million |
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. |
Homes for Our Troops
Taunton, MA
www.homesforourtroops.org |
$13 million |
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. |
Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund
New York, NY
www.fallenheroesfund.org |
$2,250,000 |
To support the provision and maintenance of physical rehabilitation software and equipment for the Center of the Intrepid, a new $40 million world-class state-of-the-art physical rehabilitation center at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. |
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Core Operating Support
Organization |
Grant |
Grant Description |
Coming Home Project
also known as Deep Streams Institute
San Francisco, CA
www.deepstreams.org
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$1.8 million |
Three-year support to expand programs that help heal the emotional wounds of veterans experiencing PTSD and other mental and emotional symptoms of combat trauma, and to provide critical educational and emotional support to those who care for them. |
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA)
New York, NY
www.iava.org |
$4,222,967 |
IAVA received grants to support three of IAVA's activities.
1.) Two-year support and $1 million to expand programs and services that empower OEF and OIF veterans to effectively speak out and use the media to document their wartime experiences and advocate for policies that improve the well-being of combat troops, and to help one another transition successfully to civilian life. and three-year support.
2.) Support and $3,222,967 for IAVA’s sponsorship of the IADIF-funded Ad Council campaign to raise awareness about the impact of the war on the troops, their families and their communities; and to provide partial general operating support to IAVA to ensure that it remains a viable operation throughout the three-year effort.
Read more about the grant. |
Jacob’s Light Foundation, Inc.
Port Jefferson, NY
www.jacobsprogram.org |
$250,000 |
To support programs and services that help meet emerging and urgent material and emotional support needs of active-duty and veteran OIF and OEF personnel.
Read more about the grantee. |
Navy Marine Corps Relief Society
Arlington, VA
www.nmcrs.org |
$1,905,000 |
Three-year general support of the Combat Casualty Assistance/ Visiting Nurses Program, which delivers professional case management and critical emotional and physical support to Marines and sailors injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Support services range from hospitalization to an extended resettlement period once troops are home. |
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Direct Service
| Organization |
Grant |
Grant Description |
American Pain Foundation (APF)
Baltimore, MD
www.painfoundation.org |
$256,248 |
Two-year support for programs and services of APF’s Military/Veterans and Pain Initiative that helps Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, their families and their caregivers learn more about, gain access to and successfully utilize resources that help manage or abate pain resulting from combat-related injuries. |
Armed Services YMCA of the USA (ASYMCA)
Alexandria, VA
www.asymca.org |
$1,828,575 |
Support and $400,000 to replace 10 15-passenger vans and purchase new vans and buses for activities involving service members and their families impacted by deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan; summer camp opportunities for children of junior enlisted Iraq and Afghanistan military OEF and OIF personnel; and three-year support and $1,428,575 to expand Operation Hero, a program to support the academic, social and emotional needs of schoolchildren whose families must relocate due to OEF and OIF deployment. |
California Department of Veterans Affairs
Sacramento, CA
www.co.san-joaquin.ca.us/veterans/yount.htm
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$5,622,000 |
Three-year support for the Pathway Home, a new residential outpatient, case-managed treatment program for returning California OEF and OIF veterans with service-related physical and psychological injuries, located at the Veterans Home of California-Yountville (VHC-Yountville). The Pathway Home will be managed as an independent program at Veterans Home of California as a project of Tides Center, with oversight by the California Department of Veterans Affairs. |
Comfort for America’ s Uniformed Services (CAUSE)
Herndon, VA
www.cause-usa.org |
$210,700 |
To design, outfit, implement and manage informational, recreational and entertainment-based lending libraries at three medical centers serving wounded OEF and OIF personnel. |
Mercy Medical Airlift
Virginia Beach, VA
www.mercymedical.org |
$3 million |
To support Mercy Medical Airlifts’ Air Compassion for Veterans program, which provides critical medical air transport service to troops, veterans and their families affected by military deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. |
National Veterans Foundation, Inc. (NVF)
Los Angeles, CA
www.nvf.org
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$1.2 million |
To expand the awareness, capacity, and use of the NVF's national Helpline and Los Angeles County service programs for veterans of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to develop both public awareness of the critical issues facing today’s veterans, and veterans’ awareness of NVF’s programs and services. |
National Veterans Legal Services Program
Washington, D.C.
www.nvlsp.org
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$3,958,147 |
Three-year support to train, coordinate and mentor volunteer attorneys nationwide to represent former and current OEF and OIF service members in need of legal help with significant disability discharge issues or obtaining their rightful benefits. |
New Directions, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
www.newdirectionsinc.org
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$2.75 million |
Three-year support for Operation Welcome Home, a comprehensive prevention program for Southern California-based OEF and OIF veterans and their families at risk of homelessness. |
ONE Freedom, Inc.
Boulder, CO
www.onefreedom.org
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$850,000 |
To support therapeutic and educational programs and services that help veterans of OEF and OIF understand, manage and heal from significant combat-related trauma and stress. ONE Freedom currently serves veterans in California, Colorado, Maryland and Washington and plans to expand nationwide in 2008. |
The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation
Alexandria, VA
www.pentagonfoundation.org
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$1.5 million |
To expand the Asset Recovery Kit emergency relief program, an effort to steer needy military personnel and their families who have been deployed to Iraq and/or Afghanistan away from predatory lenders and toward personal economic improvement. |
Project Return to Work, Inc.
Boulder, CO
www.return2work.org
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$1,034,837 |
Two–year support to expand both automated and in-person job counseling, training and placement services to severely injured and disabled military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. |
The Salvation Army, Southern California Division
Los Angeles, CA
www.salvationarmy-socal.org
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$1,337,367 |
Three–year support to expand case-managed housing, substance abuse recovery and integrated services to homeless OEF and OIF veterans and their families through the Liberty Program in Los Angeles County. |
Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation
Denver, CO
www.sentinelsoffreedom.org
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$2 million |
Two-year support to place permanently disabled OEF and OIF veterans in carefully developed “caring communities” nationwide, and financially support their
reintegration needs.
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Sesame Workshop
New York, NY
www.sesameworkshop.org
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$6 million |
Three-year support for the Talk Listen Connect 2 program that provides a broad range of critical support and education tools and resources to at least 400,000 families and caregivers with young children struggling to cope with multiple deployments and/or parents who return home changed from military service in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
Swords to Plowshares
San Francisco, CA
www.swords-to-plowshares.org
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$5,173,673 |
Support and $1,625,768 for the Iraq Veteran Project, which helps OEF and OIF veterans and their families access Veteran Affairs entitlements, medical benefits, and other critical services for their unmet deployment-related needs through free professional legal advocacy and case management; and three-year support and $3,547,905 to develop, plan and implement the new Coalition to Support Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, an effort to build infrastructure within the military support field through networking, training, professional development, conferences and other opportunities. Swords for Plowshares' services are primarily focused in Northern California but are offered nationwide. |
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
Washington, D.C.
www.taps.org
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$551,585 |
To support two Good Grief Camps for children and families of deceased Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom service members, and to hire and support a child services specialist.
Read the grantee profile. |
TIRR Foundation
Houston, TX
www.tirrfoundation.org
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$3 million |
Three-year support TIRR Foundation’s Project Victory, a collaborative outpatient rehabilitation and community reintegration program that provides cognitive, physical, psychological, vocational and educational services to aid OEFand OIF veterans who have sustained moderate to severe traumatic brain injury resulting from deployment. These services are for Texas and Louisiana veterans. |
United Through Reading (formerly Family Literacy Foundation)
San Diego, CA
www.unitedthroughreading.org
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$810,000 |
Three-year support to expand United Through Reading’s Military Program, an effort to strengthen the emotional bonds, communication and morale of military families facing combat-related separation by enabling parents to read aloud to their children on videotape. |
Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation
Kansas City, MO
www.vfwfoundation.org
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$1 million |
To increase the scope and volume of immediate financial assistance to OEF and OIF families in crisis through the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ Unmet Needs program; and to support the National Veterans Service program, which helps veterans returning to eight core military bases throughout the nation to apply for and secure critical VA benefits. |
Veterans Village of San Diego (formerly Vietnam Veterans of San Diego)
San Diego, CA
www.vvsd.net
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$974,520 |
Three-year support of Warrior Traditions, a multi-agency, case-managed professional and peer support service program for OEF and OIF active duty personnel and veterans and their families facing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), homelessness, substance abuse and other trauma-related symptoms. These services are for military personnel and veterans in San Diego and the surrounding communities. |
Vets4Vets
also known as Deep Democracy
Tucson, AZ
www.vets4vets.us
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$1,156,000 |
One-year support and $556,000 to significantly expand Deep Democracy’s Vets4Vets program, offering intensive training for, provision of, and ongoing support to peer-to-peer emotional and mental health support groups for OEF and OIF veterans exclusively in communities nationwide; and $600,000 to further expand current programs and services throughout 2008. |
Zero To Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
Washington, D.C.
www.zerotothree.org
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$3,918,786 |
Three-year support of Coming Together Around Military Families (CTAMF), a program to strengthen the resilience and coping capacity of young children and families who experience trauma and loss as a result of a family member's deployment in Iraq or Afghanistan; and to expand the project to include support and dissemination of CTAMF materials to National Guard and Reserve communities nationwide, and further the project’s reach into the military communities that currently participate. |
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Policy and Advocacy
Organization |
Grant |
Grant Description |
Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust
Cold Spring, KY
www.dav.org/cst |
$1.5 million |
To support activities that advance the Disabled American Veterans’ legislative agenda, addressing the short- and long-term needs of sick, injured and disabled American war veterans and their families during the tenure of the 110th Congress, that do not constitute lobbying under Section 4911 of the Internal Revenue Code. |
National Military Family Association
Alexandria, VA
www.nmfa.org |
$250,000 |
To support charitable advocacy efforts in support of military families affected by deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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Public Awareness
Organization |
Grant |
Grant Description |
The Advertising Council
New York, NY
www.adcouncil.org |
$3.3 million |
Three-year support for a nationwide English and Spanish media campaign to raise awareness of the impact of the OEF and OIF wars on the troops, their families and our communities. |
Brave New Foundation
Culver City, CA
www.bravenewfoundation.org |
$4,000,730 |
Three-year support to raise awareness of the impact of OEF and OIF wars on military personnel and their families by telling their personal stories through the creation and broad electronic distribution of professionally produced visual media. |
National Public Radio
Washington, D.C.
www.npr.org |
$4,143,440 |
Three-year support for expanded international, national and local news and feature coverage on the impact of deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan on American military personnel and their families. |
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Regranting and Financial Assistance
| Organization |
Grant |
Grant Description |
California National Guard Financial Assistance Fund (CNGFAF)
Sacramento, CA
www.calguard.ca.gov
/oc/j1/cngfaf
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$600,000 |
Eighteen-month support to expand and promote the use of the California Military Financial Assistance Fund, available to members of the California National Guard currently or formerly deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan and their families. |
Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund
Oceanside, CA
www.semperfifund.org |
$5 million |
Support to provide financial assistance to Marines injured in Iraq or Afghanistan and their families.
Read the grantee profile |
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation
Alexandria, VA
www.mcsf.com |
$1.5 million |
Three-year support for college tuition and financial assistance for children of Marine and Navy parents whose OEF and OIF deployments have resulted in significant financial hardship for their families. |
Michigan National Guard Family Fund, Inc.,
Lansing, MI
www.mi.ngb.army.mil/
family/FinAsst.asp |
$500,000 |
To expand financial assistance and case management services to needy Michigan National Guard families impacted in OIF and OEF. |
Operation Homefront, Inc.
Santa Ana, CA
www.operationhomefront.net
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$5.9 million |
To expand emergency financial assistance and provide mental health counseling and recovery services to American military personnel and their families who are experiencing hardship as a result of deployment to Iraq and/or Afghanistan. |
Our Military Kids, Inc.
McLean, VA
www.ourmilitarykids.org |
$3 million |
Three-year support of fine arts programs, sports and recreational activities, academic tutoring and other enrichment programs that help children of deployed and veteran National Guard and Reserve OEF and OIF troops stay focused and perform at their grade levels during stressful periods when their parents are deployed and/or recovering from war-related injuries or illness. |
The Texas Resources for Iraq and Afghanistant Deployed (TRIAD) Fund
Dallas, Midland and
San Antonio, TX
The Dallas Foundation
www.dallasfoundation.org
Permian Basin Area Foundation
www.pbaf.org
San Antonio Area Foundation
www.saafdn.org |
$15 million |
Two-year support and $5 million each to three Texas community foundations: The Dallas Foundation, Permian Basin Area and the San Antonio Area Foundation to develop and implement the TRIAD (Texas Resources for Iraq and Afghanistan Deployed) Fund, a collaborative statewide re-granting program that identifies and makes grants to support local nonprofit organizations providing programs and services that address unmet needs of Texas-based military personnel and their families impacted by deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. |
USA Cares, Inc.
Radcliff, KY
www.usacares.us |
$2.5 million |
Two-year support to dramatically expand the size and scope of financial aid to families impacted by deployment in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, and to provide general operating support to USA Cares as it expands resources in service to the target population. |
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Research
Organization |
Grant |
Grant Description |
RAND Corp.
Santa Monica, CA
www.rand.org |
$3,550,000 |
To conduct nonpartisan analysis, study and research of the needs of and services for military personnel suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and other mental health or emotional injuries and consequences associated with deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan, through a study entitled: "Mental, Behavioral and Cognitive Impacts of Deployment: PTSD, TBI and Other Mental and Emotional Health Injuries."
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