AW2 Community Support Network
Financial Support
Each organization listed in the AW2 Community Support Network offers services that are either covered by insurance or free to AW2 Soldiers, Veterans, and their Families. AW2 Soldiers, Veterans, and Families are encouraged to contact these organizations directly for more information about the services they offer.
Federal Organizations
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation 
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation is a monetary benefit paid to Veterans who are disabled by an injury or illness that was incurred or aggravated during active military service. Disability compensation is paid monthly and varies with the degree of disability and number of dependents. Veterans with certain severe disabilities may be eligible for additional special monthly compensation.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Home Loan Guaranty
The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) home loan guaranties are issued to help eligible servicemembers, Veterans, reservists and unmarried surviving spouses obtain homes, condominiums, residential cooperative housing units, and manufactured homes, and to refinance loans. The loan may be used to buy, build, repair, alter, or refinance a home or install energy efficient improvements.
U.S. Small Business Administration
The Small Business Administration provides assistance for starting a business, counseling, guaranty loan programs, and opportunities for federal contracting through 8(a) BD and Hubzone certifications.
U.S. Social Security Administration
The Social Security Administration (SSA) delivers social security services that meet the changing needs of the public. One of SSA's premier initiatives is its commitment to provide expedited processing of disability claims filed by military servicemembers. The expedited process applies to military servicemembers who become disabled while on active military service on or after October 1, 2001, regardless of where the disability occurred.
Extenal Organizations
Air Warrior Courage Foundation
The Air Warrior Courage Foundation sponsors three primary programs: Wounded Warrior Support, IRS-529 scholarship savings accounts for children of aviators killed in performance of aircrew duties, and a Therapeutic Riding program for military children. The Air Warrior Courage program attempts to meet or assist in any valid need that is not provided for by the government, including co-pays. They assist active duty, retired, and former military personnel and their Families.
The American Legion, Department of Wisconsin
The American Legion, Department of Wisconsin is a Veterans/Community organization is based on the Four Pillars which are National Security, Veterans Affairs & Rehabilitation, Americanism and Children & Youth. They wrote the G.I. Bill and work with elected representatives to restore and upgrade scouting, baseball and more and support our deployed troops and their Families through grants and scholarships.
American Veterans (AMVETS)
AMVETS, one of the nation's largest Veterans' organizations, is proud to support AW2 Soldiers, Veterans, and their Families by offering services such as advocacy in the Department of Veterans Affairs claims process and financial assistance during recovery. AMVETS' 180,000 members at more than 1,300 posts from coast-to-coast stand ready to support wounded warriors.
Armed Forces Foundation
The Armed Forces Foundation is dedicated to providing comfort and solace to members of the United States Armed Forces community by providing financial support, career counseling services, homeowners' education, recreational therapy programs, and funding awareness projects.
Boulder Crest Retreat for Wounded Warriors
Boulder Crest Retreat for Wounded Warriors is a free, safe and healing sanctuary where our wounded warriors and their families can relax, reconnect and recover from the horrific effects of war. Our facility includes developing partnerships with local non-profit organizations who will offer various nature-focused, evidence-based, non-clinical therapy programs for the service member, their spouses and their children. Located 60 miles outside of Washington, DC, in Bluemont, VA, Boulder Crest Retreat for Wounded Warriors serves outpatients from the new Walter Reed National Medical Center at Bethesda and the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital.
Bring Everyone In The Zone, Inc.
Our mission is to provide education and support to service personnel and their Families who are experiencing the devastating effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. To train facilitators in recognizing cases that require additional services including medical referral and providing them with needed resources. We fulfill our mission through our P-C-S programs: Preparing, Caring, and Sharing. We Prepare volunteers through our professional basic intermediate facilitator training programs and have trained over three hundred facilitators since our first training in August 2008. We Care by connecting our customers to a myriad of community resources and connections that assist Veterans and leverage these resources. Since May 2009, we have collaborated to leverage funds to assist with basic needs including rent/mortgage, utilities, care repair, food, and case management services. Financial assistance is provided on a case by case (donation by donation) basis. We share through Peer support that is provided by our volunteers on a one to one or a group basis currently have over sixty groups meeting throughout the state. Our first weekly group began in August of 2008.
Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund, Inc.
The Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund, Inc., provides financial and educational assistance to surviving and severely wounded servicemembers and their Families with children at home under age 18, who have been affected by the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. Their college grants program provides scholarships for single wounded servicemembers as well. They also provide immediate emergency funding that provides assistance to Families at risk of foreclosure or loss of housing.
Combat Wounded Veterans of South Mississippi
Combat Wounded Veterans of South Mississippi is a non-profit organization that provides support to our local wounded warriors of all services to include, financial resources, assistance with VA benefits, employment, and spiritual. We collaborate with other local organizations to facilitate the needs of our Mississippi Wounded Warriors.
The Dallas Foundation: Texas Resources for Iraq-Afghanistan Deployment (TRIAD)
The TRIAD Fund at The Dallas Foundation provides assistance to current and former military personnel serving in Iraq or Afghanistan and their Families. Grants are made to non-profit agencies in North and West Texas that currently serve the military and their Families or agencies that could, with additional funding, meet unmet needs of this group, such as counseling, child care, transportation, emergency assistance, recovery programs, and physical and mental health services.
Freedom Alliance
Freedom Alliance provides broad support to Soldiers and their Families, including morale-building concerts and grants to wounded servicemembers.
Freedom Is Not Free
Freedom Is Not Free provides quality of life enhancements and financial assistance to wounded servicemembers and their Families. Freedom Is Not Free also provides children of military Families "experiences of a lifetime" though participation in annual camps.
The G.I. Go Fund
The G.I. Go Fund focuses on assisting Veterans as they transition from military to civilian life. The G.I. Go Fund offers assistance on securing employment, enrolling in Department of Veterans Affairs benefits, education advancement, and other programs. The G.I. Go Fund also offers a Transition Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Heartbeat Serving Wounded Warriors
Heartbeat Serving Wounded Warriors recognizes that the road to recovery is a long and difficult one for the wounded warrior Family and offers emergency assistance for those who qualify. Heartbeat also offers morale programs, including adopting wounded warrior Families for Christmas, new therapeutic programs, such as Back in the Saddle Warriors and Scuba Warriors, and Assignment, Recovery & Comfort kits for newly wounded personnel.
Heroes to Hometowns
Heroes to Hometowns is designed to welcome home servicemembers who are severely injured. In facilitating a positive transition home, Heroes to Hometowns inspires community pride and establishes a support network for servicemembers and their Families so they can live productive lives. Heroes to Hometowns also offers national assistance.
Hope For The Warriors
Hope For The Warriors works to enhance the quality of life for servicemembers and their Families nationwide who have been affected by injuries or death in the line of duty. Their programs offer a full cycle of support, starting with Immediate Needs financial assistance, and continuing through A Warrior's Wish, Warrior's Hope & Morale, Above & Beyond professional development, spouse/caregiver scholarships, Team Hope For The Warriors, and other programs.
The Michael J. Novosel Foundation
The Michael J. Novosel Foundation supports wounded warriors with a wide variety of services, including financial counseling and support, advocacy, and other personalized support.
Operation First Response, Inc.
Operation First Response (OFR) supports America's wounded warriors and their Families with personal and financial needs. Services are provided from the onset of injury, through recovery, and along the warrior's journey from military life into the civilian world. Financial aid varies as each case is based on individual needs ranging from rent, utilities, vehicle payments, groceries, clothing, and travel expenses.
Operation Homefront-FL
Operation Homefront provides emergency and other assistance to the military Families and wounded warriors. Through a network of over 26 chapters covering 32 states, the organization offers assistance and resource and referral.
Operation Homefront of Texas
Operation Homefront of Texas provides emergency and morale assistance for troops, their Families, and wounded warriors. They also assist when servicemembers transition from the military to the Department of Veterans Affairs system.
Operation Second Chance
Operation Second Chance provides a wide range of services to wounded servicemembers and their Families from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom to facilitate their transition back to civilian life. These services include personal visits to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, financial assistance, monthly retreats, and assistance in the modification of housing for disabled Veterans.
Operation Stand Down Rhode Island
Operation Stand Down Rhode Island is a non-profit organization that helps homeless and disabled Veterans. They provide social services, counseling, and other services. The organization's goal is to enable each Veteran to achieve self-worth and independence.
Operation Ward 57
Operation Ward 57 supports wounded warriors, their Families and medical staff at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center by providing items that assists in recovery, maintenance and morale of the hospital environment and through advocacy, education, and promotion of their circumstance.
Our Military Kids
Our Military Kids supports the children of severely injured military personnel through grants for sports, fine arts, or academic enrichment programs. Such activities help nurture and sustain the children during a parent's lengthy recovery and/or rehabilitation. Grant applications can be found at the website above.
Performance Improvement Incentives, LLC
The Performance Improvement Incentives, LLC, helps wounded warriors by partnering them with companies who honor them by featuring them at events, meetings and recognition functions. Through these events, wounded warriors are shown the honor, respect and support they need and deserve. Wounded warriors are lessons of courage, honor, and commitment who relate their experiences of men and women who serve to protect us and suffer life-changing injuries.
The Scott Rigsby Foundation
The Scott Rigsby Foundation is dedicated to inspiring, informing, and enabling physically-challenged individuals with loss of limb or mobility to live an active lifestyle. They promote the health and fitness of physically challenged individuals by improving access to equipment and resources, while advancing technology and improving the long-term transition care network. Through the AW2 Community Support Network, they seek to enable all wounded warriors to cross their personal finish lines.
Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation
Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation provides scholarships to severely wounded members of America's Armed Forces. The program helps them readjust to civilian life and prosper in their hometowns or new communities. Local volunteer teams pledge to provide mentoring and moral support, and each Sentinel pledges to use that support to reach their personal, professional, and financial goals.
Special Operations Warrior Foundation
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations personnel and their Families and full scholarship grants and educational and Family counseling to the surviving children of special operations personnel who die in operational or training missions.
Shepherd Center/SHARE Initiative
The Shepherd Center is a private, not-for-profit catastrophic care hospital in Atlanta, GA, that specializes in medical treatment for people with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), spinal cord injuries, chronic pain, and other neuromuscular injuries or illnesses. The SHARE Initiative, a military outreach effort, provides interdisciplinary evaluation and treatment services for active duty servicemembers and Veterans who have experienced these injuries in conflict or stateside.
Stress Less Heal More
Stress Less Heal More is a program dedicated to helping wounded warriors reduce stress in their lives so they can focus on healing. We can help you and your caregivers by negotiating your expenses, finding free and/or negotiated rates for alternative healing and finding additional types of support for those who don't have sufficient emotional support in their lives. If you have other needs let us know and we'll see how we can help. We have the ability to help five wounded warriors a month, but are working toward additional resources to help more warriors each month.
Swords to Plowshares
Swords to Plowshares provides a full continuum of care to low-income and homeless Veterans without discriminating on length of service, branch of service or military discharge status. Swords to Plowshares helps Veterans and their Families in the following areas: Frontline Drop-In Center for mental health services, supportive housing, employment support, legal services, and more.
United Service Organizations, Inc. (USO)
The USO is dedicated to providing world-class services and support to America's wounded warriors and their Families. From providing comfort kits to on-site recreational programs, the USO's network of care will be there, especially when needed most.