Give What Every Service Member Deserves: Respect and Support
You can thank the brave individuals and their families that keep our communities safe by supporting our initiatives.
When you donate, you can choose to support:
Financial Assistance for Service Members
Your support provides financial grants (that do not need to be repaid) to current Vermont service members and their families to assist with housing, rent, food, and other essential family needs.
Green Mountain Boys 50
Special events, programs, and professional development opportunities for Vermont military members through the non-profit, volunteer committee, Green Mountain Boys 50.
The Vermont National Guard at Work in Vermont Communities
- Army Aviation supported Vermont State Police in a search for a missing person in Cavendish, Vermont by dispatching a UH-72A helicopter to support this June 2022 mission.
- 160,000+ ready-to-eat meals distributed to communities suffering economically from the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of a partnership with the Vermont Foodbank.
- 80,000+ COVID-19 vaccines administered to Vermonters in every county in Vermont. Vaccines were given to all FDA eligible age categories.
- 1.7 million (and counting) COVID-19 test kits assembled and shipped to Vermonters in need, as well as critical supplies to health care facilities and pharmacies around Vermont as part of the Strategic National Stockpile.
- 24,000+ calls to Vermonters with positive COVID tests and/or contact tracing to share proper protocols to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
- 450-bed hospital built at the Champlain Valley Fairgrounds in Essex Junction, Vermont during the COVID-19 surge. The facility housed 20 patients in the beginning of the pandemic and was resurrected in the event of need in a secondary surge. These efforts offer an overflow facility for non-acute COVID-19 positive and negative patients, freeing up critical space in our healthcare system to treat patients in need.
- Support to the UVM Medical Center when their computer systems were affected by a Cyber Attack in 2020.
“I have always prided myself in being a survivor and I am sure I would have pulled myself out from under eventually, but the financial pressure on top of everything else was taking a tremendous toll on my emotional well being at a time when I really needed to be focused. Your generosity has enabled me to be able to focus at my temporary job while looking for more permanent employment.”
