Support Military Moms: The Charities

The Support Military Moms Event kicks off Saturday, Armed Forces Day. In addition to featuring some great miltiary friendly companies and small businesses owned by military moms, I hope to raise some money for a few of my favorite charities that support military families. I know the economy sucks (trust me, I know) but that means these charities need our help NOW more than ever.

In addition to the fact that these organizations are obviously worthwhile and do great work for military families, I’ve got another (much less noble) reason you should donate: you earn one extra entry into every Support Military Moms Event giveaway for every dollar you donate. In other words, donate $15 to Snowball Express and you earn 15 extra entries into every Support Military Moms giveaway. And trust me, the giveaways are great and you want the extra entries.

Now, let me introduce you to the worthwhile charities for which I hope you will open your heart (and wallet) and give. Fisher House, National Military Family Associatioin and Operation Snowball.

Fisher House
The Fisher House Foundation donates “comfort homes,” built on the grounds of major military and VA medical centers. Because members of the military and their families are stationed worldwide and must often travel great distances for specialized medical care, these homes enable family members to be close to a loved one at the most stressful times – during the hospitalization for an unexpected illness, disease, or injury.

There are 38 majestic comfort homes on the grounds of military and VA medical centers across America. (And, in fact, one is being constructed at the base where my husband is stationed.) Each year, they offer more than 210,000 days of lodging to more than 10,000 families in a nurturing environment that allows military and veterans’ families to face a medical crisis together. Here families can focus on the healing process, free from the financial concerns of finding an affordable place to stay, in an unfamiliar city, while a loved one is hospitalized.

Donate to the Fisher House.

National Military Family Association, Military Family Fund
The goals of the NMFA are to educate military families concerning their rights, benefits and services available to them and to inform them regarding issues that affect their lives and to promote and protect the interests of military families by influencing the development of implementation of legislation and policies affecting them.

Your gift to the Military Family Fund will support many of the programs and benefits so vital to military families. Our Association will always need funding to represent the family perspective as changes in the military lifestyle, needs that evolve over time, and extraordinary situations arise.

Donate to NFMA, Military Family Fund.

Snowball Express
A charity for the children of our fallen military heroes, Snowball Express started in early 2006 with a simple idea: Provide hope and new memories to the children of military fallen heroes who have died while on active duty.

Snowball Express sponsors the largest gathering of its kind in the country. Children ages 5 to 18 (with a parent or guardian) who have lost a parent gather to meet other children just like themselves, all expenses paid. This is not a family vacation but a time to meet and simply have “fun” with other children in the same situation. Your donation to Snowball Express will go toward the funding of SBE IV being planned for December in Dallas, Texas.

Donate to Snowball Express.

Please let me know of your donation by sending me a quick email. From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!