Vets Helping Heroes, Inc.

Vets Helping Heroes' primary, short and long term goal, is to raise funds for specially-trained Guide Dogs and Service Dogs and donate the funds to Special training facilities all over the United States and to ensure placement of Guide Dogs and Service Dogs, free of charge (No cost to the Veteran) to active and retired members of the US Armed Forces with life altering injuries. In addition, we aim to shorten the waiting lists for these life-saving Guide Dogs and Service Dogs; to inform legislation of the need of Guide Dogs and Service Dogs to our disabled Veterans, as well as, to educate the public in general.

We raise funds to provide funding to many Special Training Facilities all over the country for the training and placement of Guide Dogs and Service Dogs to disabled Veterans. These Special Training Facilities have been thoroughly assessed and personally visited by our Board Members. We also work to advise and generally educate the public, not only as to the need for Specially-trained Guide Dogs and Service Dogs, but to any other related aspect, such as the number of suicides per day by Veterans, 24 per day. Finally we work with local and the Federal government officials to inform legislation related to these life saving Guide Dogs and Service Dogs.

We raise these funds in many ways such as Grant Writing, several mailing per year (via regular mail and e-blasts); we do speaking events to educate people of the need for these animals and to advise them of the wonderful work we do. We do presentations by bringing Veterans/Guide Dog and Service Dog teams to events to demonstrate the amazing things these dogs were trained to do and to have the Veteran speak on how the dog has changed his life and how the dog gave him a reason to live.

To date we have raised over $7,000,000 and are very proud to have funded 450 Veteran/Guide Dog/Service Dog teams.

Vets Helping Heroes has a versatile and active Board of Directors comprised of retired high ranking Military, business professional in the fields of Law, Computers, Healthcare, Non-profit, Film Production, Sales and more. This dynamic team enables us the best advantage to achieve our goals. In addition, many of our board members are retired military with first-hand knowledge and experience of the plight of the injured that we seek to help.

We have updated our Website at www.vetshelpingheroes.org and have increased our social media presence as well.

We have a corporate office and an Executive Coordinator who works very hard to effectively keep our organization in full compliance with the laws of a 501(c)3 Charity. All of our State Registrations are up to date and we are registered in all 50 States. Our entire Board of Directors are volunteers. We are very proud to say that we keep our Administration fees as low as possible (10%).

In our short existence, Vets Helping Heroes has raised over $7,000,000 and has provided over 450 Guide Dogs and Service Dogs to active and retired disabled members of the U.S. Armed Forces. In addition, we have begun and continue to amass information allowing us to better educate the public and have been integral in bringing the need for Guide Dogs and Service dogs to the attention of the Federal Government.

What's next: We are working even harder to bring this charity to another level, raise even more funds to help and to save even more disabled Veterans. We will continue to visit and inspect more Special Training Facilities all over the United States to add them to our funding list so that we can reach and help more disabled Veterans in all areas, all over the country.