About Veterans1

Based in the Washington, D.C., area, Veterans1 is unlike other veteran service organizations (VSOs).

• We are a volunteer-run organization. We have no employees or staff. That allows us to devote more of your contribution dollars to providing benefits and programs to veterans and their families.

• We do not run programs. We work with organizations that have an existing program – or a concept or plan – that will help veterans or their families. We provide research, grants or in-kind services and fundraising assistance. As we match volunteers and available resources with VSOs, we look for groups that are not duplicating something that another organization is already doing well. Veterans1 also looks for groups with realistic budgets and low overhead so that contributors know that their money goes primarily to veterans and their families.

• We advocate on behalf of veterans and the families by educating Congress, the White House and federal departments and agencies.

Some of the groups we are working with now are a Colorado-based group that wants to take veterans’ job fairs nationwide; a group that wants to offer college assistance to children of veterans; and a Bulgarian volunteer-run effort that provides entertainment for U.S. servicemen and women stationed in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

In response to suggestions and recommendations from contributors, we are investigating providing humanitarian aid and medical supplies to refugees in war zones where U.S. forces have departed.

“For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.”

- Former Georgia Senator and Governor Zell Miller