Quick Facts

About the Coalition to Salute America’s Heroes

The Coalition to Salute America’s Heroes was created in 2004 to provide emergency financial aid to our severely wounded troops and their families in crisis.   We focus on helping servicemen and women who have been severely burned, blinded, paralyzed, brain damaged or suffered other debilitating injuries while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Already the Coalition’s generous donors have responded with emergency financial aid and other services to more than 21,000 cases from our disabled GIs.

In the process we have provided them with more millions of dollars in support services and emergency aid to avoid evictions, foreclosures, utility cutoffs, car repossessions and other financial disasters.  We also provide their families with food, clothing and other basics.

In addition to the Coalition’s Emergency Financial Aid Program, other programs include:

Thanksgiving “Thank You” Meal Program:
This Thanksgiving hundreds of disabled GIs will receive a $60 gift card to enable them to feed their families over the four-day Thanksgiving weekend, or perhaps take their families out to dinner. The 2009 Thanksgiving Season is the third year in a row our donors and wounded GIs have participated in this popular program.

$500 Christmas gift card program:
The Coalition’s $500 Christmas gift card program surprises wounded GIs right before Christmas with $500 so they can provide their children with presents from Santa.  Over the past four Christmas Seasons, our donors have provided a total of 4,752 Christmas gift cards.  And during the 2009 Christmas Season our goal is to deliver a $500 gift card to hundreds more severely wounded troops and their families.

Road to Recovery Conferences:  Over the past four years more than 500 disabled troops and their families have attended these unique, all-expense-paid educational events. 
Over a four-day period our severely wounded troops learn how to cope with their injuries, receive career counseling and attend educational seminars as they start putting their shattered lives back together.   Several have even landed jobs at the event’s Career Fair.

Wounded Troops Foreclosure Fund:  To help our disabled GIs who face losing their homes or getting evicted during the ongoing home foreclosure crisis, the Coalition created a Wounded Troops Foreclosure Fund.  So far our generous donors have rushed emergency aid to more than 200 seriously injured servicemen and women facing eviction or foreclosure.