Philanthropy
The Tom Deierlein Foundation
The purpose of the Tom Deierlein Foundation is to help needy families and children both nationally and internationally with their most basic living needs including medical care. We will raise funds in the US and then use them to arrange for medical treatment and/or purchase critical daily items such as clothes, food, water, school supplies, vitamins, as well as toys, etc. We will partner with local organizations, institutions, and people to locate and distribute these goods and services to those in need. Our initial recipients will be Iraqi children affected by the current war. This is a grassroots organization. All participants in this fund are volunteers, 100% of donated funds will go to those children and families in need.
Wounded Warrior Project
The Wounded Warrior Project aims to help veterans by: providing free assistance to obtain benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs and other agencies; representing veterans on state and federal legislative issues; working with business and government leaders to ensure veterans are given equal opportunity in hiring; and providing outreach to modern veterans through programs and services that address their unique needs.
USSOCOM Care Coalition
The USSOCOM Care Coalition's mission is to provide SPECIAL OPERATIONS Warriors and their families a model advocacy program in order to enhance their quality of life and strengthen SPECIAL OPERATIONS readiness.
Yellow Ribbon Fund
The Yellow Ribbon Fund was created in early 2005 to assist our injured service members and their families while they recuperate at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center. Our mission began when the father of an injured Marine introduced two of our volunteers to staff at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval and they told us what needs were not met by other donors.
In little over three years contributions made through the Yellow Ribbon Fund have provided the following for injured service members and their families: over 700 free rental cars spanning more than 35,000 days; over 9,000 free taxi rides; over 2,800 free hotel room nights; 38 families have used our five apartments for almost 3,000 nights; hundreds of free tickets to sporting games, concerts and plays, and hundreds of lunches, dinners, golf games, duck and goose hunts, fishing trips, and other activities.
VetConnect
VetConnect is designed to enhance existing rehabilitation programs for wounded veterans and to actively engage local civic, business, and community leaders in the reorientation of wounded warriors to their communities. VetConnect supports the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the many private organizations that address the needs of wounded warriors through the operation of programs that help them adapt everyday routines to their disability, enable them to further their education or vocational training, and, in some cases, help them secure jobs with government and private employers.