Code of Support Foundation
They Stood For Us. We Stand With Them.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Out of the 22 million veterans in the U.S., an estimated 30% of veteran families are in crisis and require critical assistance from one or more service providers to ensure they have wrap-around support for their needs. Currently, there are tens of thousands of nonprofits and thousands of local and federal government resources available to help veterans and their families, all with varying scope and eligibility requirements. However, the Code of Support Foundation (COSF) recognizes that even with all the available resources many service providers are still having extreme difficulty finding the right resources for the veterans they were assisting. COSF realized that the quantity of the resources was not the problem. The real challenge was effectively navigating, identifying and leveraging the thousands of these resources to fulfill the unique, complex, and often multiple needs of veteran families' looking for assistance.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Case Coordination
Code of Support Foundation’s (COSF) team of trained case coordinators and veteran peer navigators provide personalized, holistic long-term assistance to struggling service members, veterans and their families (SMVF). We serve all generations across the nation, regardless of discharge status.
PATRIOTlink
Code of Support Foundation’s PATRIOTlink is a cloud-based resource navigation platform that enables a real-world connection between support organizations and veteran service providers, transforming how they share information and support veterans in need.
Education and Engagement
COSF works to increase public awareness and appreciation of the service, sacrifice and challenges facing our troops, veterans, and their families. We ask Americans to move beyond caring, to committed and involved, and provide them opportunities to do just that.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Caregivers, Families, Veterans
Related Program
Case Coordination
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Number of military service members, veterans, and their families served by our case coordination team.
Number of health outcomes improved
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Caregivers, Families, Veterans
Related Program
Case Coordination
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Amount of individuals served whose well being score was higher than their initial score after engaging with Code of Support Foundation.
Number of low-income households who have received utilities assistance to keep the lights, heat and/or water on in their homes
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Caregivers, Families, Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
Case Coordination
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Decreasing
Number of clients referred to other services as part of their support strategy
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Caregivers, Families, Military personnel
Related Program
Case Coordination
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric indicates the number of applications we recieved that we passed to partner organizations that could best serve their unique needs.
Number of users who have access to free, direct, vetted resources.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
PATRIOTlink
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric indicates the number of users that have created accounts on our PATRIOTlink plaform.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our efforts are focused on promoting and cultivating the COLLECTIVE IMPACT of those serving service members, veterans, and their families. COSF's integrated Case Coordination model, supported by our PATRIOTlink database solution, significantly increases and facilitates coordination between service providers and organizations across sectors and locales to better serve the veterans they work with.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The majority of support organizations have a restrictive scope and eligibility criteria so that many service members, veterans, and their families find themselves falling through cracks. Our PATRIOTlink technology solution allows community-based organizations and government agencies such as DoD and VA agencies to better communicate, collaborate, and work smarter not harder to better serve the veterans they work with.
PATRIOTlink empowers service providers to engage with other organizations, enabling thousands of service members, veterans, and their families to access the resources they need to stabilize and thrive. In facilitating connections between support organizations, COSF serves as a force multiplier in the veteran support space at both the tactical and strategic levels.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
COSF is uniquely positioned in its role as a driver of national collaboration by facilitating and increasing collective impact in the veteran support space.
PATRIOTlink is a strategically populated provider assistance tool that empowers service providers to easily navigate and find resources for the service members, veterans and families they are assisting. Our team of PATRIOTlink program specialists performs a thorough vetting and profiling process on each active resource, spending approximately 90 minutes per organization. They ensure that each profile represents program capacity, includes services provided and is tagged based on eligibility criteria (i.e., service era, disability rating, discharge status, deployment history, population assisted and geographic coverage). This allows a service provider to perform searches that result in resources their client qualifies for, significantly reducing the amount of time it takes to find the often multiple resources their client needs.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
To date, Code of Support has assisted over 3,500 service members, veterans, caregivers and military families who have faced the most critical needs through our Case Coordination Program. In 2019, the most common needs faced by our clients include: financial assistance and budgeting, affordable housing assistance, transportation, mental health and peer support, and unemployment. In 2020, Code of Support will continue to assist new clients in similar situations, while continuing to follow-up with past clients to ensure they are maintaining self-sustainability.
Since it's inception in 2018, PATRIOTlink, our resource navigation platform, has growth expotentially. At the beginning of 2019, the plaform had a mere 580 users. As of December 2019, PATRIOTlink usership grew to nearly 10,000. In 2020, Code of Support is confident that the success of PATRIOTlink will continue - reaching 20,000 users by the end of the year.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.)
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Code of Support Foundation
Board of directorsas of 01/26/2024
Hon. Robert M. Speer
Speer and Associates, LLC.
Term: 2020 -
Sheri Thompson
Walker & Dunlop
Term: 2020 -
Robert Mangone
BrandCore LLC
Kevin Sheehan
Multiplier Capital
Rebecca Stewart
Prestige
Shawn Olds
Campaign Partners
Sheri Thompson
Walker & Dunlop
Brian Detter
Artis
Elizabeth El-Nattar
Harmonic Solutions
Diedre Windsor
Windsor Group LLC
Melissa Glynn
Prometheus Federal Services
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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