Project Promise Launched

I've been a longtime supporter of the Project Valour-IT/Soldier's Angels charitable fundraising drives to help raise money to assist in the purchase of voice controlled laptops for soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen injured in the line of duty. Now, there's a new effort to expand fundraising in the form of Project Promise:

Project Promise Soldier is a new non-profit dedicated to helping soldiers. The group is simple in mission and broad in scope. Project Promise recognizes that there is an unspoken promise we, as citizens, make to care for our veterans and their families. Project Promise’s mission is to be part of the network of organizations that care for our wounded soldiers; to give something back to those who serve and protect our country and our citizens and to keep that unspoken promise.

Project Promise is a non-profit organization formed to collect money to aid several agencies that work with wounded soldiers. Beneficiaries of Project Promise will be: The Rhode Island VA, Soldier’s Angels/ValourIT, The New England Homeless Veteran’s Shelter and The Wounded Warrior Project.

As the organization grows, it is Project Promise’s intention to fund individual grants to soldiers and their families to help them get back on their feet when they return home.

All donations made to Project Promise are tax deductible.

The group is having a kick off event, November 7th – November 12th—to coincide with Veterans' Day. Donations raised during that period will go to Soldiers' Angels/Valour IT, the Rhode Island VA and the NE Homeless Veteran's Shelter.

It looks like a worthy cause, so if you are so inclined, check them out.