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Financial - American Soldier Foundation
The American Soldier Foundation was created to assist soldiers on extended active duty and their dependents, and the dependents of those lost in the line of duty. Military life often places a difficult burden on families, both financially and emotionally. We believe that the lives of the men and women keeping our country safe should not be any harder than they have to be. It is in that spirit that we offer our support. They fight for us - let's fight for them.
The Foundation can provide grants or interest-free loans for: food, rent or utilities, funeral expenses, family/marriage counseling, medical expenses, financial planning, personal needs when pay is delayed or stolen, education planning and scholarships, fines or legal expenses, business planning, liquidate or consolidate debt, home purchase or improvements, purchase, rent or lease
Financial - Brave Aid
Brave-Aid is a non-profit, charitable organization who humbly accepted the laudable and challenging mission of securing and providing funding for the service men and women of the United States Armed Services who are in need via a gaggle of financial maladies including but not limited to financial assistance for: the recovery from or maintenance of combat related injuries, housing and emergency day-to-day expenses, and assistance to the families of fallen service professionals.
Financial - Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund
The CFSRF was founded in order to provide support to surviving US military children and spouses that have lost a loved one in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars or whose service member has sustained a serious disability. Our objectives are to help US military children and spouses with college grants as well as provide financial assistance to those families in need of help with housing, utilities, food and clothing. Often, when a loss occurs in these families, what was a two person income becomes one. The financial hardships placed on these families are very difficult to deal with. Their lives are devastated and forever changed. We are determined to help make the last wishes of those lost to the casualty of war possible by assisting their families with their needs.
Financial - Fallen Patriot Fund
The Fallen Patriot Fund of The Mark Cuban Foundation was established to help families of U.S. military personnel who were killed or seriously injured during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Financial resources are vital to enhancing the sustainability of the family unit who has suffered a loss because their loved one sacrificed him/herself for freedom. Within that group, grant recipients will be selected in accordance with criteria established by The Mark Cuban Foundation. All proceeds will be disbursed.
Financial - Freedom is not Free
Since its establishment in 2005, Freedom is not Free has raised funds to serve,support, and increase awareness with the aim of easing our heroes' and their families' burdens.
We have assisted with travel expenses for families of fallen heroes...arranged the venue and accommodations for a surviving spouse conference.
Financial - Killed in Action Fund
In the pursuit of liberating these victims of oppression in Afghanistan and Iraq, the ultimate sacrifice is being made by hundreds of America's finest young military personnel. Many leave behind a spouse and small children. It is the goal of the Enduring Freedom KIA Fund to give financial aid to those needy and deserving families.
Financial - Massachusetts Military Hero Fund Basic Needs Program
The Basic Needs Program of the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund offers limited emergency financial assistance for military families whose ability to provide for themselves has been compromised by the grief of losing a service member in a time of war. Often times, military benefits are not made available to all family members who need them. The Basic Needs Program can fill in the benefits gap for these families, while at the same time, offering referrals and advocacy in order to address the obstacles to financial self sufficiency. The Basic Needs Program can be the bridge for missed rental/mortgage payments, utility bills and other basic necessities.
Financial - Navy Seal Fund
The Navy SEAL Warrior Fund is a non-profit organization tasked with a mission to:
- Support the widows and children of US Navy SEALs killed or injured in combat or training
- Assist wounded SEALs where special needs must be met
- Provide support to the active duty SEALs, who are away from home answering the call of duty, and their families back home
Financial - On Behalf
Our organization is dedicated to direct action. We raise funds for those wounded veterans and military families experiencing a financial crisis, but we also go further by offering a way to connect businesses and professionals from around the United States, looking to provide a personal service or fun activity, with wounded veterans and the families of the fallen.
Financial - Operation Family Fund
Our mission is to assist the injured and families of the those who have been injured or killed as a part of the Global War on Terrorism, whether domestic or abroad, military or civilian, with financial grants for transitioning to their new circumstances and achieving financial self-sufficiency.
Financial - Our Fallen Soldier
Our Fallen Soldier, was founded on August 1, 2006 following the loss of our son, brother and uncle Sgt. Kyle Colnot who was KIA 22 April 2006 outside of Baghdad, Iraq.
The focus of this organization is two fold, to honor Kyle and his 4,953 Brothers and Sisters in arms who have paid the ultimate price for their country and the liberation of others. This is done by offering free web pages where each and every fallen hero can be remembered.
Secondly to provide financial support for the loved ones left behind. We have assisted several families, sponsored camps for the children and spouses of our fallen, supported Fisher House, The Wounded Warriors Battalion and several soldiers who are members.
Financial - Soldier Memorial Fund
Makes contributions and donations to soldiers and their families. Objectives:
- To make annual awards to Armed Forces Members who have distinguished themselves in their service to our country.
- To commend future members of the Armed Forces with leadership awards to assist their entry into the service.
- To award family of an Armed Forces member who has been wounded or lost in combat.
- Conduct the annual Christmas/Holiday Gift Drive for members of the Armed Forces serving in combat areas.
Financial - Special Ops Warrior Foundation
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides full scholarship grants and educational and family counseling to the surviving children of special operations personnel who die in operational or training missions and immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations personnel and their families.
Financial - The American Soldier Foundation
The American Soldier Foundation helps widows (ers) and orphans of soldiers who died while on active duty or after they retired with grants or interest-free loans.
Financial advisor - Army Emergency Relief
Widows whose spouses are killed or died while on active duty are offered free lifetime membership with AAFMAA Financial Advisors. This will entitle widows to an array of specialized services at no cost to them. AAFMAA Financial Advisors has expertise in the area of government survivor benefits. AAFMAA Financial Advisors will provide the widow a printout reflecting the survivor benefits (social security, SBP, and VA or DIC) the family can expect to receive. AAFMAA Financial Advisors will also include an explanation of the benefits and be available to answer the families' questions about the benefits. Widows will receive an annual printout reflecting projected benefit amounts each year as increased by COLA and notified throughout their lifetime of any law changes that affect their survivor benefits. Widows only need to activate these services by contacting AAFMAA Financial Advisors at MemberServices@aafmaaFinancial.com or call 1-888-707-1850. The CAO may also activate the widow's lifetime support by contacting AAFMAA Financial Advisors.
Financial advisor - Massachusettes Military Heroes Fund
The Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund staff will assist family members with obtaining social services, insurance payments and other benefits which can be difficult to navigate.
The Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund can offer referrals to resources for mental health providers, military benefit advocates, legal services and financial/estate planning.
Scholarships - American Patriot Scholarship (MOAA)
As a result of the terrorists' attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the MOAA Scholarship Fund established the American Patriot Scholarship to help children of uniformed services personnel-officers and enlisted- who died while in Active service as a member of the Regular, Guard or Reserve Forces.
Scholarships - Armed Forces Children's Education Fund
The United States has become the leader in the world in the war on terrorism. Unfortunately, the battle against terrorism doesn’t come without the sacrifice of the lives of some of our military men and women.
For this reason, those associated with Armed Forces Children’s Education Fund (AFCEF) feel it is our moral obligation to provide some form of assistance to the families left behind. This education fund for the children of those fallen heroes is just a small way for Americans to say “thank you” for the ultimate sacrifice made in the name of freedom.
Scholarships - Children of the Fallen Patriots Foundation
Providing college scholarships and educational counseling to military children who have lost a parent in combat or training.
Scholarships - Folds of Honor
The greatest measure of respect that we can bestow upon a fallen hero is to support that service member's family. Folds of Honor Foundation is a legacy foundation designed to provide scholarships for dependents and spouses of service members that have been killed or disabled as a result of their military service.
Scholarships - Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund
The Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund honors the bravery and dedication exhibited by Americans in our Armed Forces who have sacrificed life or limb defending our country by providing educational scholarships to their children. Thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Guardsmen have been killed in the War on Terror.
Thousands more members of our Armed Forces have been permanently disabled, leaving their families in difficult financial situations. Their children – the sons and daughters of America’s military heroes – (many of whom are now young) will be eligible for a Freedom Alliance Scholarship in the years to come.
Freedom Alliance has established a permanent Scholarship Trust Fund to aid the children of these brave Americans so that we will be able to help the children of American heroes when it is their turn to attend college.
Scholarships - Hope for the Warriors
Hope For The Warriors awards scholarships to US military spouses of Wounded and Fallen Warriors. The purpose of the scholarships is to identify, recognize and reward exceptional spouses for their strength, fidelity and resolve despite adversity and to aid in their continued education at a reputable, accredited college or trade school as they assume critical roles in the financial well being of their families.
Scholarships - Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry Scholarship
The children of military personnel who died in the line of duty since Sept. 11, 2001 can apply for an educational scholarship similar to the new Post-9/11 GI Bill. Benefits are retroactive to Aug. 1, 2009.
The scholarship, which is administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs, are named after Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry, 28, a Texas native who died in Iraq in 2006 while disarming an explosive. He was survived by three young children. “The Fry scholarship represents this nation’s solemn commitment to care for children whose mothers and fathers paid the ultimate price for our country,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki.
VA begins accepting applications for the Fry scholarship on May 1, 2010. For more information or assistance applying, call toll-free 1-888-GIBILL-1 (1-888-442-4551), or visit the VA GI Bill Website at www.gibill.va.gov.
Scholarships - Scholarships for Military Children
The Scholarships for Military Children Program was created to recognize the contributions of military families to the readiness of the fighting force and to celebrate the role of the commissary in the military family community. If your mother or father is active duty, reserve/guard, or retired military personnel or you are the survivor of a deceased member, and you have a military dependent I.D. card you can apply! You must be planning to attend a college or university on a full-time basis.
Scholarships - Special Ops Warrior Foundation
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides full educational scholarships, not grants, for surviving children of fallen Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps special operations personnel. Funding includes tuition, books, fees, room and board.
One of the major aspects that makes the Warrior Foundation different from other scholarship foundations is our proactive approach to getting our students into college. We actively stay in touch with each of our families and students throughout the formative years through birthday cards, graduation cards, and invitations to events across the country. We have a school psychologist on our staff helping those families who need assistance with learning disabilities, academic challenges, and other counseling needs.
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