OPERATION ENDURING WARRIOR
Honor, Empower and Motivate
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Operation Enduring Warrior seeks to support wounded veterans and law enforcement professionals through programs that offer physical, mental and emotional rehabilitation. Since these programs are run by active military, veterans as well as active and retired law enforcement personnel, the programs serve both the primary recipient but also by creating a community and encouraging the type of camaraderie as seen if military and law enforcement circles, the organization support the mental and emotional help of all its members. This combats veteran and law enforcement suicide .
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
OEW Skydive
Selected wounded warriors go through sky dive training that will culminate in them achieving their US Parachute Association "A" license certification.
Community Ambassadors
Volunteer supporters who wish to assist in raising awareness and donations for OEW through spreading the word, participating in local community events wearing OEW branded gear, and promoting our social media outlets.
Race Program
Official events OEW particpates in to empower wounded warriors/adaptive athletes and raise awareness. Race program events include various distance Obstacle Course Races (OCR) from multiple well-known OCR companies to road races ranging from 5K to marathon. Adaptive athletes can also hand cycle events accompanied by a member of our Masked Athlete Team. Race program events are either led my members of our Masked Athlete Team or our Community Ambassadors.
Adventure Programs
Provide and safely facilitate opportunities for Wounded Warriors to experience and enjoy inspiring experiences, such as skydiving, surfing, scuba diving, hunting, adventure
trips, etc...
Operation Warrior Christmas
Holiday event where OEW, Community Athletes, and volunteers gather to deliver care packages to our heroes overseas and recovering wounded warriors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland and Center for Intrepid at San Antonio, TX.
Outreach
Coordinates visits to wounded warrior hospitals such as Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Warrior Transition Battalions to visit with wounded warriors, provide encouragement, support, and motivation. Through this, OEW offers opportunity to participate in one of our programs.
Where we work
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of participants engaged in programs
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of Facebook followers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
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?
Reduce veteran and law enforcement suicide, support the empowerment of wounded veterans and law enforcement personnel to continue active healthy and productive lives.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Develop Programs that are physically demanding
Build support teams for our wounded veterans
Team with supporting organizations
Empower and Motivate our wounded veterans to accomplish daunting physical tasks with the aid of the team
Create deep ties with the wounded veterans to build lasting engagements
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Operation Enduring Warrior is uniquely suited to accomplish its mission. It has created the Masked Athlete Team. Those selected to this elite group must past rigorous physical and mental challenges as part of the selection process. This creates the capability of the organization to quickly deploy a group of athletes to assist a wounded veteran through a physical challenge while ensuring that veteran's safety above all else.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Over 100 wounded veterans have been served already. Next we will expand our programs to include additional services to veterans and we will include law enforcement officers who have been injured in the line of duty.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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OPERATION ENDURING WARRIOR
Board of directorsas of 08/03/2020
Walter Romano
Operation Enduring Warrior
Term: 2013 -
Patrick Vanlandingham
Operation Enduring Warrior
Walter Romano
Operation Enduring Warrior
Stephen Mills
Operation Enduring Warrior
Mark Sells
Operation Enduring Warrior
William Pollitz
Operation Enduring Warrior
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 ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in 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