DONATION / LEND A HAND

Below is a list of Donation Sites and Lend a Hand websites that can make a huge difference in our Military and their Families lives. Please view all of these websites so you and the people you know can make a difference!


 

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  DONATION SITES

 
  • Army Emergency Relief
    AER is the Army's own emergency financial assistance organization and is dedicated to Helping the Army Take Care of Its Own. AER provides commanders a valuable asset in accomplishing their basic command responsibility for the morale and welfare of soldiers.

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  • Military Heroes - SUPPORT FOR MILITARY HEROES
    Our soldiers have demonstrated heroism, we are determined to demonstrate compassion. 100% of your contribution will be used to support the wounded and their families. We work directly with military family medical centers to determine needs, especially at Walter Reed and Brook Army Medical.

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  • USACares.us
    USA Cares exists to provide military families with financial support and other critical resources in their time of need. Using the experiences we have learned with Kentuckiana Cares, USA Cares maintains a "call center" dedicated to the millions of Americans who have service members in their family. We also have a family support account created with money generously donated to us, exclusively for use in supporting military families in the same tradition as Kentuckiana Cares. Trained and experienced Family Resource Coordinators mentor, coach and are the friendly voice that help those families that may not even know the right question to ask. USA Cares’ assistance center is located in Radcliff, Kentucky; it serves a military that is serving in over 120 locations around the globe.

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  • Walter Reed Society/MEDCOM NOW
    Six weeks ago, the first edition of Walter Reed Now brought you the highlights and the latest information on progress to restore Walter Reed Army Medical Center to its rightful place as the “Crown Jewel” of Army Medicine. The sixth edition published April 30, 2007, was the latest. Moving Forward, we bring you MEDCOM Now – a newsletter highlighting the challenges and success of Army Medicine. Click on the “Donations” button to find out how you can help. Various types of donations are needed – It is only through the generosity of our compassionate donors that the Society can offer this support to our troops and their families. While the Society, staffed almost exclusively by volunteers, is unable to accept gifts of goods and merchandise, a Support Fund has been established to assist wounded warriors from OIF/OEF and their families during their treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Please send monetary contributions, payable to Walter Reed Society and noted for the OIF/OEF Support Fund.

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  • Wounded Warriors Project
    Wounded Warriors Project Provide Comfort for a Wounded Warrior Your generous donation to the Wounded Warrior Project enables us to help the thousands of wounded soldiers returning home from the current conflicts and to provide assistance to their families. As the number of wounded steadily increases, it is easy to see how the needs of these brave individuals also increase. Your tax deductible gift will provide comfort to wounded, ease the financial burden on their families, and speed the recovery process.

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  • Fisher House
    The Fisher House program is a unique private-public partnership that supports America's military in their time of need. The program recognizes the special sacrifices of our men and women in uniform and the hardships of military service by meeting a humanitarian need beyond that normally provided by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Read more at - http://www.fisherhouse.org/aboutUs/aboutUs.shtmlOnline Giving - Making a donation through our secure server is fast and easy, and when we receive your donation, we will send you an acknowledgement in the mail for tax purposes.Online donations can be made "in honor of" or "in memory of" an individual or organization. The prompts for these designations are on the second screen of the online form. If donors provide a name and address for an acknowledgement letter, the Foundation will notify that person or organization of the gift.
  • Operation Homefront
    Operation Homefront provides emergency and morale assistance for our troops, the families they leave behind and for wounded warriors when they return home.  A nonprofit 501(c)(3), Operation Homefront leads more than 4,500 volunteers in 30 chapters nationwide and has met more than 105,000 needs of military families. Operation Homefront provides aid to families struggling not only with emergencies, but also with the problems of everyday life.  Existing programs include:
    * Emergency Aid- Provides food, baby care items, vehicle donation and repair.
    * Computer program - Allow children and spouses to stay in touch with their loved ones.
    * Furniture Program - Donates household and baby furniture; working-order appliances.
    * Moving - Provides physical labor for families when a serive member is deployed.
    * Social Outreach - Offers Adopt-a-family opportunities, Thanksgiving/holiday baskets, back-to-school supplies.
    * Community - Rebuilds the challenged social network of the military community by bringing it to our online magazine where it is convenient to everyone, no matter the time or location.

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  • Faces of the Fallen
    It has been over two years since Faces of the Fallen, an exhibition of 1,319 portraits of American military killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, opened. More than 200 artists from across the country created the portraits as gifts of admiration and respect with the intent of eventually returning the art work to the next of kin. Since then, more than 650,000 friends, comrades in arms and family members of the fallen, as well as strangers from across America and overseas, have visited the exhibit.
  • Hero Bracelets
    Take a hero into your heart.  Wear one on your wrist.  We want to thank you for choosing HeroBracelets to honor those who serve our military.  Our goal with these bracelets is twofold. 

    First, to honor those serving, wounded in combat or killed in action. Wearing a HeroBracelet is a profoundly simple way to show your respects to these brave men and women.

    Second, we want to support the work the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund has done to build The Center For The Intrepid in San Antonio. It is, without a doubt, the finest facility ever built for the rehabilitation of those wounded in combat.  Read more...

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  • T.A.P.S – Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
    Each year, hundreds of American families face the tragedy of the death of a loved one serving in the Armed Forces. The families left behind include loving parents, siblings and young spouses and school age children. In many cases, these families must move immediately away from their friends and support systems and rebuild a life that was once devoted to military service but is now focused on just surviving their traumatic loss.Where can these young American families turn for the support system that they deserve when they have, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, “laid so costly a sacrifice on the altar of freedom”? They can, and most often do, turn to TAPS.

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  • Military Exchange Prepaid Calling Cards
    The Department of Defense Military Exchanges have been authorized to sell the following prepaid calling cards to individuals and organizations who wish to purchase these cards for our troops serving overseas in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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  • Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
    Founded in June 2004, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is the nation's first and largest group dedicated to the Troops and Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the civilian supporters of those Troops and Veterans.

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  • Marine Corps University Foundation
    Generations of Marines have proven to be elite warriors because they are always ready. Being part of this country's premier fighting force requires more than mere physical fitness, it calls for mental fitness -- the sharpest minds. The Marine Corps University Foundation's mission is to give Marines the tools to excel in the Corps and in life by providing resources that enhance and enrich their professional military education and leadership.

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  • Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund
    Since September 11, 2001, United States Marines have been on the front line of the War on Terror. Their bravery and dedication have had a price. Many have been wounded, some seriously, and some resulting in lifelong disabilities. Because of medical advances, Marines are now surviving injuries that were not survivable in past wars. They face extended hospital stays and months if not years of recovery and rehabilitation.

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  • Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society – Hurricane Relief and Donations
    The Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society remains sincerely concerned for the safety and welfare of our Sailors, Marines and their families whose jobs have them in the Gulf Coast region of the country. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Society opened a number of its offices in the region and established temporary offices nearby.

  • Freedom Is Not Free
    American military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan have exceeded 28,000, with over 3,500 fatalities. 80% of the wounded are in the 18-30 age range and face an entire life-time of recovery. FREEDOM IS NOT FREE, with the support of donors, aims to ease our heroes' and their families' burdens. The generosity of supporters like you enables us to offer grants to worthy recipients, to participate in the funding of valuable programs, and to ease the immeasurable weight being shouldered by so few for the benefit of all of us. FREEDOM IS NOT FREE programs and grants are made possible solely by the generosity of donors.

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  • USO Cares - “Operation USO Care Package”
    The United Service Organizations, Inc. (USO) is enlisting support of individuals around the world to support the troops through Operation USO Care Package. These packages are being delivered to members of the U.S. Armed Forces deployed around the world to show them they have not been forgotten and to provide a ‘touch of home’. With a donation of $25 you can sponsor a care package.

  • USO
    The USO is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide morale, welfare and recreation-type services to our men and women in uniform. The original intent of Congress – and enduring style of USO delivery – is to represent the American people by extending a touch of home to the military.

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  • Marine Memorial Supports Scholarship Donations
    Donations will be matched dollar for dollar while funds last! The Marines' Memorial Association received a generous grant from an anonymous donor to support our Scholarship Program. All donations toward the Scholarship program starting 01 August 2006 to 30 June 2007 will be matched dollar for dollar while the grant has funds to match your donations. Our goal is to create additional scholarship funds that will be awarded to students who are in need of assistance and have displayed excellence in their studies. This matching program will generate the necessary funds to help us accomplish this.

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  • National Military Family Association
    GOALS - To educate military families concerning their rights, benefits and services available to them and to inform them regarding the issues that affect their lives and...To promote and protect the interests of military families by influencing the development and implementation of legislation and policies affecting them.

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  • Armed Services YMCA
    How local community YMCAs can help military families http://www.asymca.org/ymca-families.html

  • Armed Forces Trust Relief
    With the continued war on terror and a prolonged engagement in Iraq, many of the men and women serving our country are facing personal and financial hardships. Family budgets are strained and those who remain at home face a mounting workload. The large activation of Reserve and National Guard personnel has further strained the resources needed to take care of our troops and their families. With the generous support of the National Association of Broadcasters, the four Military Aid Societies — Air Force Aid Society, Army Emergency Relief, Coast Guard Mutual Assistance, and Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society — have come together to address these escalating needs by creating The Armed Forces Relief Trust.

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  • America Supports You
    Computer Donations: http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/AmericaSupportsYou/comp_donation.html
    How you can Receive Help/ How we Support You: http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/AmericaSupportsYou/phone_cards.html

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  • National Emergency Fund
    Donate Contributions to the National Emergency Fund. The National Emergency Fund program is perhaps one of the most visible illustrations of “veterans helping veterans” that the Legion has to offer.

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  • Navy UDT – Seal Museum – Birthplace of the Navy Frogmen
    THE Navy UDT-SEAL Museum NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT... The Navy UDT-SEAL Museum is currently fundraising for the construction of a brand new museum at the Birthplace of the Navy Frogman.

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  • The Breast Cancer Site
    Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and it is completely free with no strings attached. Click on "donating a mammogram" for free (pink window in the middle).
 

 



  LEND A HAND SITES

 
  • Lets Say “Thanks” - to support our Troops
    This website gives you an opportunity to send a free printed post card to U.S. Military Personnel stationed oversees showing your support and appreciation for their service to our country. Read more at... http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1024.html

  • Operation Gratitude
    Hundreds of thousands of American troops are deployed in hostile and remote regions of the world, including the Middle East, Afghanistan, Africa, Guantanamo Bay and on ships throughout international waters. The physical conditions they must endure are difficult and they may be separated from loved ones for long periods of time. OPERATION GRATITUDE seeks to lift troops' morale, and bring a smile to their faces by sending care packages to service members overseas. OPERATION GRATITUDE care packages contain food, toiletries, entertainment items and personal letters of appreciation, all wrapped with good wishes of love and support.

  • USO Cares
    The USO will soon be distributing its one millionth Operation USO Care Package. Initiated in 2001 by the USO of Metropolitan Washington, the Operation USO Care Package program distributes care packages to service members deploying to Afghanistan, Iraq and other overseas locations, as well as troops arriving and departing on rest and recuperation (R&R) flights. Care packages can contain prepaid international calling cards, refreshments, disposable cameras, toiletries, compact discs and other items requested by service men and women.

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  • A Million Thanks
    A Million Thanks is a year-round campaign to show our U.S. Military Men and Women, past and present, our appreciation for their sacrifices, dedication, and service to our country through our letters, emails, cards, prayers, and thoughts.

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  • Subscriptions For Soldiers
    Subscriptions for Soldiers is an exciting new program that gives you a chance to personally show the hardworking men and women in America’s armed forces how much you truly appreciate their sacrifice. For only $10 each you can send gift subscriptions to active service members serving at home and around the world. We have gathered thousands of requests for magazine subscriptions from our servicemen and women and now we need your help!

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  • America Supports You
    This website has numerous websites that enable you to help our soldiers in need. Please look at them to see where you can best help.

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  • A Soldiers Wish List
    Items our soldier really need. Help by showing this website to friends, family, schools to help “make a difference” for our soldiers that are fighting for our country.

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  • Military.com – “Support Our Troops”
    Looking for ways to support and honor U.S. military servicemembers and veterans who protect our security and freedom? In years past, you could wrap up a care package and mail it to "Any Service Member" for the holidays, but with increased mail restrictions, the Pentagon is asking people to help through financial contributions, letter-writing and e-mail, purchasing authorized pre-made care packages, or volunteering time through non-profits.
    Below are links to programs that offer aid to our military -- everything from care packages to emergency services to military family support. Show your pride in our armed forces today, either by purchasing a gift or card for a servicemember, or donating to programs that support our military.

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  • Military Exchange Prepaid Calling Cards
    The Department of Defense Military Exchanges have been authorized to sell the following prepaid calling cards to individuals and organizations who wish to purchase these cards for our troops serving overseas in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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  • Any Soldier.com
    Sergeant Brian Horn from LaPlata, Maryland, an Army Infantry Soldier with the 173rd Airborne Brigade was in the Kirkuk area of Iraq when he started the idea of Any Soldier to help care for his soldiers. He agreed to distribute packages that came to him with “Attn” Any Soldier” in his address to soldiers who didn’t get mail. Brian later completed a tour in Afghanistan and is not home, but AnySoldier.com continues larger than ever.Any Soldier Inc. started in August 2003 as a simple family effort to help the soldiers in one Army unit, thus our name. Due to overwhelming requests, on 1 January 2004 the Any Soldier effort was expanded to include any member of the Armed Forces in harms way. If you would like to give your support to our Soldier in harms way, but have no idea of what to send, who to send it to, or how to send it?

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  • Army Families Online
    The Well-Being Liaison Office (WBLO) assists the Army Leadership with its constituent communities — Soldiers (Active-Duty, National Guard and Army Reserve), Civilians, Retirees, Veterans and their Family members — to ensure the effective delivery of Well-Being programs to the Army by providing focused representation of constituent interests and attitudes as they relate to Well-Being.

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  • Knitting Helmet Liners
    SPRINGFIELD, IL: During the Civil War civilian volunteers tore cotton into strips to supply the army's with bandages. In both WWI and WWII, volunteers rallied to provide our fighting forces with handmade wool gloves, socks and stocking caps to keep the Soldiers dry and warm. Today, Soldiers stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo are exposed to winds and bitter cold during the winter months.