Blankets For Hope

Blankets For Hope is one chapter of our Warriors Christmas Tale that we organize to benefit our Veteran families that are in need.

This is a movement seeking to fill a void within communities across our nation. The number of Veterans and their families on the streets, or sleeping in their cars every night is staggering.

The Cold Hard Facts:

• Our Veterans make up somewhere between 9% - 33% of the homeless in regions of our nation.
• The largest growth population is with our recent Female Veterans.
• Common for war veterans, they get angy and punch the wall. Now a DV case, they cannot see their family and end up sleeping in their car.
• Whole familes are homeless.

The exciting part of this movement is that it allows the entire community to be a part of it and you don't have to be a Veteran to make a difference!

Blankets For Hope - a Winter Clothing Drive for Homeless Veteran Families
Considering that whole families are homeless, the need is there for winting clothing for our Male & Female Veterans as well as their Children.

A touching story: Our volunteers were receiving clothing during December's winter weather when a family walked near and then stopped. One of them, a young girl around 10 years old, looked at her family for their approval then approached our tent. She asked; "Are you accepting coats for the children of our homeless veterans?" Our team responded with, "Yes of course." She then took the coat off her back and handed it to our team. The volunteers all started to cry and got that there is hope in our nation.

Please become a Volunteer Champion and take on creating this event as a collaboration in your area. We will provide guidance and the formula for success.

Specific Event Locations:

11/5/19 Breaking News:

We are excited to share a new program that can bring great results to many Veteran Shelters across the nation. Thanks to a national partnership with You Give Goods we are able to create an online shopping drive page of new winter items. We set the recipient of the items from each drive page to different shelters/programs that focus on Veteran Families. It's very simple, an organization/business partners with NA2EVS as Sponsor (they do the marketing of that drive page) and chooses a Recipient non-profit shelter/program near them. Page visitors then buy new items (receiving immediate tax receipt for their donation) and after the last day of the drive the items are shipped to that shelter/program.

To setup a Blankets For Hope winter clothing drive page for a shelter/program near you, please communicate with Rod.Wittmier our National Director by emailing rod.wittmier at na2evs dot org.