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Heal with Honor Update

Heal with Honor Update

An Update on how Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services is helping Veterans and their Families Heal with Honor.On August 10, 2022, 5 million veterans became eligible for benefits and increased services from the VA when the PACT (Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics) Act was signed into law.

This is what it means to impact the lives of veterans and their families and is but one example of Dixon Center’s work under our focus area, Heal with Honor—developing solutions that focus on the eight dimensions of wellness: mental, physical, social, environmental, occupational, spiritual, intellectual, and financial; ensuring that veterans and their families not only survive, but thrive.

In recent months, along with working with other partners in passing groundbreaking legislation, like the PACT Act, Dixon Center: has placed a spotlight on the importance of wellness during the Bob Woodruff Foundation’s GotYour6 Summit in New York City; led a convening of organizations who are partnering with Easterseals Greater Houston in delivering wellness services to veterans and their families throughout southeastern Texas; successfully advocated for keeping open a vital VA medical center in western Massachusetts; and assisted organizations develop proposals to Mission Daybreak, the VA’s program to develop suicide prevention solutions that meet the diverse needs of veterans.

Our emphasis is on the positive. We are working with organizations able to support veterans heal with honor. We partner with local and national organizations to help them find and focus on the overall well-being of veterans and their families. We help them develop programs that work, making them even more impactful.Deploying influence, ideas, and actions, we assist those organizations scale their impact and ensure that the right services reach veterans and their families at the right time.To learn more about increasing impact and assisting veterans Heal with Honor, please contact Colonel (Ret.) Sam Whitehurst, VP, Programs & Services, at swhitehurst@dixoncenter.org.

 

Photo One: Rosie Torres, Burn Pits 360, at a press conference supporting veterans exposed to burn pits.

Photo Two: COL (R) Sam Whitehurst, Dixon Center, at the GY6 Summit.

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Working Together for Our Veterans

Working Together for Our Veterans

At Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services we work with thousands of organizations and individuals nationwide who assist with our noble purpose of making the lives of our veterans and their families better.
 
One of the most impactful organizations we work with is our very own, The Fedcap Group, and its array of top-tier nonprofit agencies dedicated to advancing the economic well-being of people with barriers. Dixon Center works every day with the companies of The Fedcap Group to help them integrate veterans and their families into their vast offering of capabilities focused on knocking down economic barriers.

Just recently we focused efforts on helping Fedcap Serving Maine stand up their new organization, Veterans Forward, an organization designed to provide critical assistance to create a sustainable future for Maine’s veterans, service members and their families.
 
Dixon Center continues to work with Community Work Services to assist in the integration of veterans of the Boston area into their programs so that veterans may gain a level of economic security and opportunity.
 
These are just a few examples of how Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services works across The Fedcap Group to ensure that veterans and their families can succeed in the communities where they live.  If you would like to learn more about our work within The Fedcap Group or with other organizations across the nation, contact our President, Retired Marine Colonel, Duncan S. Milne at dmilne@dixoncenter.org.

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Donors Share in 10 Years by Continuing Commitments

Together, we are Reaching America.  On July 13, 2012, Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services celebrated 10 years of live-changing operations and programming.  

Our donors responded to this celebration with their continued commitment to our Nation’s veterans and military families. Their gifts and investments enabled our ability to impact more than 2.4 million individuals and organizations. Dixon Center is thankful to all those who made a commitment to continue to increase their impact on the future for the Nation’s veterans and military families. Want to have an impact on our next ten years? You can. Your generous, tax deductible donation to Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services is making a positive difference in the lives of veterans and their families.

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Veterans Forward-Communities Assisting Veterans, Maine Edition

Veterans Forward-Communities Assisting Veterans, Maine Edition

Maine is a big state with a small population, but it is blessed with one of the highest per capita population of veterans of any state in the union. The rural nature of the state and distances required to travel create challenges when it comes to access to services and supports for veterans of the Pine Tree State. With the assistance of Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services, Veterans Forward has been created by Fedcap Serving Maine. Veterans Forward provides veterans, service members, and their families critically needed support in emergency situations such as housing, substance use treatment, home heating assistance, food and clothing, and job training across the state of Maine.

Veterans Forward couldn’t have arrived at a more critical time.  The challenge of living on a fixed income forces many of our veterans to make hard choices between food, fuel, and medical care.

It is Summer now but with Winter always just around the corner in Maine, these choices can have real life and death considerations. Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services stands at the ready to help organizations like Veterans Forward in Maine and those like it across the nation assist veterans and their families so they can thrive in their communities.

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Opportunities for Veteran Entrepreneurs in the Federal Marketplace

Dixon Center for Military & Veterans Services, Service Before Self, a podcast that tackles the evolving needs of veterans and their families, based on the belief that veterans can succeed in the community where they live.Listen to Veterans Helping Veterans Become Entrepreneurs with Colonel (Ret., USMC) Scott Jensen, Executive Director, National Veteran Small Business Coalition (NVSBC).  NVSBC provides nationally recognized training, networking, and advocacy for veteran small business entrepreneurs in the federal market to ensure they are procurement ready and have enhanced access to opportunities to start, operate, sustain, and grow competitive and strong businesses serving Federal agencies and other government contractors.

In this episode, your host, Retired Army Colonel Sam Whitehurst, Dixon Center Vice President of Programs & Services, and Scott, discuss the opportunities available in the $30 billion a year in federal contracting that is set aside for veteran small business owners. Scott shares insights on keys to successfully navigating the federal marketplace and how NVSBC is a true partner in assisting veteran entrepreneurs through mentorship, training, and networking. As Scott puts it, “NVSBC is veterans helping veterans become small business owners!”Subscribe To/Follow Service Before Self Podcast

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Save the Date: Annual Holiday Reception

Save the Date: Annual Holiday Reception

Save the DateDixon Center for Military and Veterans ServicesAnnual Holiday ReceptionTuesday Evening, December 13, 2022 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm ESTWashington, D.C.

Please Save the Date of our Annual Holiday Reception and Awards Ceremony.

About this Event

We hope that you will save the date for our annual holiday reception and award ceremony. We use this time every year to thank our friends, families, supporters, and donors. Every year we recognize special individuals and organizations with our four awards:

The Eugene and Ruth Freedman Leadership Award

The Herbert and Carolyn Metzger Service Award

The Michael “Mick” Yauger Point Man Award

The Lou Lowenkron Commitment to Veterans Excellence Award

Please Save the Date and we look forward to another successful event. Watch for more information and announcements.

Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Servicesc/o The Fedcap Group633 3rd Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017www.dixoncenter.org

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Donors React to Memorial Day & Basic Needs

Thank you to our donors who throughout the month of May made donations to Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services. These donors made memorial gifts in remembrance of a loved one who has passed away. By giving a donation in memory of a family member or friend, these donors are recognizing a special individual while also affirming their shared values and commitment to our nation’s fallen over Memorial Day Weekend. In June, we were honored to receive investments supporting Women Veterans Emergency Financial Assistance. This crisis intervention program recognizes the unique financial challenges women veterans face in creating stable, fulfilling lives for themselves and their families as they reintegrate into civilian life.  Our donation process is simple and quick. In just 30 seconds, your donation will be on its way to enable our veterans and their families to succeed where they live. And again, thank you to our nearly 2,000 donors.  

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10 Amazing Years

10 Amazing Years

Tomorrow, Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services will celebrate 10 years of impact.This is an exciting time for our team. It is the opportunity to double-down on our noble purpose: to make the lives of our veterans and their families better. 

This is the chance to build upon the success across our 3 pillars, 13 programs, and 356 projects over the past 10 years and to recommit ourselves.

Our Commitment:

  • We Listen – We know that the needs of our veterans are evolving, not disappearing
  • We Collaborate – We believe that every organization and individual can effectively integrate veterans and their families into their existing community-based programs.
  • We Adapt – We know that every veteran, military member, and their families are unique, and we respect and honor their differences by remaining flexible in our response.
  • We Respond – We work with other to develop and deploy solutions before problems become and crisis.
  • We Persevere – We know the importance of never giving up on our veterans and their families to ensure they reach their full potential.
  • We are Transparent – We are disciplined in our fiscal responsibility, with regular disclosures about financial and operational performance and impact.

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See How You’re Enabling Veterans & Their Families

This July 13th, we celebrate our 10th Anniversary.

With a decade of impact under our belt you can check out examples of our 356 projects by swiping across our 13 programs while visiting the landing pages of our 3 work pillars – Work with Purpose, Heal with Honor, and Live with Hope – on our website. We are very proud of our achievements over the past 10 years.

Please donate today to Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services and make a positive difference in the lives of veterans and their families. Don’t just make an investment. Have an impact.

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Celebrate & Share Your Patriotism On July 4th

July Fourth celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It’s a showcase for patriotism. But what does all of this really mean? 

Patriotism comes from the heart. It’s what you believe and what you care about. It’s a sense of belonging and part of the culture one embraces. 
In the military, service members and their families live it during each and every mission they undertook.

Many of those who served are now veterans. They fought for our country, our families, our neighbors, our community, and our buddies on the left and the right. We will all be celebrating the Fourth and checking on each other. 

Some of our team will spend the morning at Mount Vernon, home of George Washington, who led the military movement for independence. Close to 246 years later, members of our Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services served on multi-national military teams committed to carrying forward this belief, participating in the fight for three other countries (Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan) to have independence. In the afternoon, we will join co-workers, friends and family celebrating our 10-year anniversary of continued service to veterans and military families so that we all can live happy, productive, independent lives. 

Embrace the day! What will you be reflecting on while you recognize our nation’s freedom and your own patriotism?

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