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GIVING BACK WITH THE INDEPENDENCE FUND
PROGRAMS WE ALL CAN GET BEHIND!
PROGRAMS WE ALL CAN GET BEHIND!
Grill Your Ass Off & The Mobility Program
The Independence Fund’s Mobility Program provides catastrophically wounded Veterans the chance to regain their independence through the use of all-terrain trackchairs. Grill Your Ass Off is hoping to donate 2 All Terrain Trackchairs in 2022. We are working to accomplish this through our Checkout Round-Up Program. (During the checkout process customers have the option to round up to the nearest dollar for donations) The Mobility Program is open to Veterans of all eras who have undergone a severe loss of mobility from a service-connected catastrophic injury or illness.
Help us reach our goal of $32,000 to donate 2 All-Terrain Trackchairs!
Grill Your Ass Off & Operation RESILIENCY
Combating Veteran Suicide
Each year, more than 6,000 Veterans take their own lives. Operation RESILIENCY focuses on the mental health and wellbeing of our Veterans in order to prevent Veteran Suicide and improve the overall quality of the life for our Veterans and their families. The Independence Fund and the Veterans Health Administration Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention (OMHSP) have partnered together in order to make an immediate impact on the lives of our Veterans and their families. The structure is a mutually beneficial manner that advances and improves Veterans’ mental health and wellbeing, and expands and promotes community collaboration to increase access to mental health resources for all Veterans and their families and prevent suicide in the Veteran community.
The partnership with Grill Your Ass Off is helping to provide peer mentorship and resource sharing through the reunions of Veterans from high casualty units. The reunion retreats will get a supply drop from the GYAO Team and will be an opportunity for each Veteran to regain the sense of camaraderie lost after leaving their unit. GYAO will also be providing entrepreneurship resources and classes. Together, The Independence Fund and Grill Your Ass Off are combating Veteran suicide and reuniting these Veterans with independence. The goal is to ensure the unit that experiences the battle together, experiences healing together.
Who is the The Independence Fund?
Founded in 2007, The Independence Fund is committed to empowering our nation’s catastrophically wounded, injured, or ill Veterans to overcome physical, mental, and emotional wounds incurred in the line of duty. We are dedicated to improving the lives of both our Veterans and their families. Through our Mobility, Caregiver, Advocacy, Casework, Operation RESILIENCY, Independence@Home and Family programs, The Independence Fund strives to bridge the gap of unmet needs for Veterans and their Caregivers.
