NO ONE LEFT BEHIND!This is a big one, my 75th birthday. As I look over the years, I am thankful for the “miracles” that changed my life in so many ways. I have been blessed with a great family and childhood, blessed to survive Vietnam, and blessed to spend my ...
Shad Meshad Memorial Day Interview with Sirius Radio
Check out NVF Founder & President's Memorial Day interview on Sirius Radio. ...
After-Hours: When Stakes are Highest
The call came in on our Lifeline for Vets at 4:55 PM, Pacific Time, on a Friday. The counselor who took the call immediately identified it as a crisis call and turned it over to Shad Meshad, our founder and President. Three hours later ...
Going the Extra Mile for a Homeless Woman Vet
Los Angeles Police Department’s HOPE team (Homeless Outreach and Protective Engagement) held a meeting to address the difficulty getting veteran service providers to intervene with help beyond during-office-hours-referrals. Attending that ...
Help Navigating the VA
In early March, NVF social worker Mary Ann Mayer took a call from an Air Force Veteran in the Midwest. Recently discharged from a civilian hospital, he’d been sent back to the VA with a potential diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and a request ...
A Special Kind of Veteran Advocacy
The homeless Veteran calling from a mountain state didn’t let on, but our counselor sensed that he was in crisis. Between that first phone call and the most recent one, where he admitted that he’d been going to use his shotgun when he’d ...
Montford Point: a USMC Legacy
Montford Point Camp, now called Camp Johnson, is located at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Approximately twenty thousand Marines were trained at Montford Point between 1942 – 1949. All of them were African-American men. (The military ...
NVF Holds Strategic Summit
On March 16-17th, the NVF held its first-ever strategic planning summit at its headquarters in LA. This historic step forward for the Foundation included the Board of Directors and NVF staff members, and also participation from numerous ...
