NO ONE LEFT BEHIND!Originally from Mexico, Varela has 20 years of non-profit work experience working with inner-city communities. An Army Veteran, she was a combat field medic. Martha holds a degree in Social Work, Youth Studies, and Multicultural Studies. ...
Meet Jim White
We waited a long time to be able to add Jim to our team. One of the most-decorated helicopter pilots in the Vietnam war, White earned the nickname “Sneaky” because he was so effective extracting troops under siege in the jungle.He fills ...
Grant Maloy Smith Stars in Benefit Concert
Billboard Top Ten, American Roots and Music Row Country Songwriter Grant Maloy Smith offers an online concert on May 22, 5 PM PST and 8PM EST to benefit the NVF.Singer/songwriter Grant’s song “The Man of Steel”, is the theme song of the ...
The NVF Responds to Covid-19
Our National Veterans Foundation Team is in constant contact with the VA and other local, regional, state and federal partners to make sure we provide the most up-to-date information to Veterans and their families who call our toll-free ...
War Horse Creek to Host Veteran’s Town Hall
In his recent book “Tribe”, Sebastian Junger writes, “In humans, lack of social support has been found to be twice as reliable at predicting PTSD as the severity of the trauma itself… No one goes to war and returns unaffected, and these ...
An Unexpected Good Turn for a Navy Veteran
Texas is a big state with many small towns. A call came in from a male Navy veteran in a small rural town of 5,076 people. He and his wife were in desperate need of food. They had been managing a hotel, which had been sold. In such a small ...
Getting a Lawyer for a Veteran
A woman veteran in Arizona had been through treatment for PTSD, MST (Military Sexual Trauma) and SUD (Substance Use Disorder). Although she was clean and sober, she’d had two DUI’s before she went into treatment. As a result of that, she ...
Marine Veteran Bikers to the Rescue
A 31-year-old combat veteran who served in Iraq was battling testicular cancer. He was living in a hotel to be close to the VA hospital in Florida where he was being treated, but he was running out of money. There are areas of the country ...
