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Continued Funding for Live with Hope

Continued Funding for Live with Hope

“We are thrilled to have secured a multi-year grant.”

– Eileen Greenlay, Director of Development

Securing Multi-Year Support for Women Veterans

Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services has recently been awarded a multi-year grant from an anonymous foundation to advance our key initiatives: Live with Hope, Basic Needs, and Operation Veteran Empowerment (OVE).

Purpose of the Grant

The Live with Hope programs, which focus on Housing and Basic Needs, operate through a network of partnerships with organizations and service providers. The newly secured funding enables Operation Veteran Empowerment to offer one-time, needs-based emergency financial assistance to women veterans connected to New York State who are experiencing urgent financial hardship. Assistance covers essential expenses such as past-due rent or mortgage payments, utility bills, car repairs, and other critical needs. 

Demonstrating Impact and Building the Case for Continued Funding

Throughout the first cycle of the grant, Dixon Center leveraged opportunities to demonstrate its impact through regular check-in meetings, comprehensive mid-year and final grant reports, and convenings with stakeholders. The organization’s commitment to gathering learnings, conducting data analysis, collecting survey insights, and incorporating feedback from partners resulted in compelling evidence to support requests for increased and extended funding. 

Collaboration and Data-Driven Model

During a recent meeting with the funding foundation, Dixon Center shared significant data trends and detailed how collaboration with network partners helps meet the needs of veterans and their families. The evidence-based model established in the first year, combined with a vision for expanding impact over the next two years, strongly resonated with the foundation and secured their continued support.

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Sharing Best Practices at the Driven by Success Summit

Sharing Best Practices at the Driven by Success Summit

Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services was a key and integral part of coordinating, planning, preparing for and executing a transportation industry summit in New Jersey, last week.  

Members of the Driven by Success coalition, community partners and supporters attended the summit to share lessons, exchange ideas and meet the graduates. Following a successful first cohort of program graduates, the veterans that attended are more prepared to serve and be key contributing members of their communities as small business owners in New Jersey. 

Dixon Center’s Program and Services team continues to be a key member of the leadership, strategic planning, curriculum development, recruitment and execution of this training program as we scale it for future cohorts.

John Harmon, President of AACCNJ, Eileen Greenlay, Dixon Center, Jennifer Grosick and Frank Britt with Pilot Company

Pilot Company engaging with Driven by Success graduates, owners of a small trucking business in NJ

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Partnership Forged to Expand Opportunities for Veterans & Their Families

Partnership Forged to Expand Opportunities for Veterans & Their Families

On October 14th, Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services formalized a strategic collaboration with the Texas A&M University System Office of Veteran and Military Services—an important milestone in our ongoing mission to ensure veterans and their families thrive where they live.

This new agreement brought together leaders from both organizations at the Texas A&M Veteran Summit in Fort Worth, TX, to establish a shared framework for increasing opportunities across workforce development, education, wellness, and entrepreneurship.

The Center is aligning expertise, relationships, and resources to strengthen the Texas A&M System’s capacity to connect veterans and military families to meaningful career pathways, higher education, and supportive services. In turn, the Texas A&M System—with its extensive network of universities and relationships with agencies across the state—is providing a powerful platform to amplify impact at scale.

Together, we are building a statewide model that integrates veterans into every aspect of community life—helping them learn, work, and live with purpose. By combining Dixon Center’s national reach with the Texas A&M System’s local presence and commitment to those who have served, we are demonstrating what sustainable, systems-level collaboration can achieve.

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The Fedcap Group’s Celebration of The Power of Possible Gala

The Fedcap Group’s Celebration of The Power of Possible Gala

Given that The Fedcap Group is our parent organization we are always embracing every opportunity to promote their activities, encouraging our partners and supporters to get involved in their events as well as building public awareness of their impact. To this end, we look forward to attending The Fedcap Group’s annual gala in New York City. This year is no exception.

Join Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services at The Fedcap Group’s Celebration of The Power of Possible Gala at The Plaza Hotel in New York City on December 1st.

We will be celebrating The Fedcap Group’s Community Impact Award Honoree and those individuals uplifted through our Fedcap community of support. If you are unable to attend the event, you are invited to support Fedcap’s mission by making a donation.

We hope you’re able to attend and join us. Learn more by clicking here Fedcap Gala — Celebration of the Power of Possible Gala

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Strategic Partnership Forged with BVSJ

Strategic Partnership Forged with BVSJ

September 23rd, Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services formalized a strategic partnership with Black Veterans for Social Justice (BVSJ)—a pivotal step in advancing our shared mission to ensure veterans and their families thrive where they live.

This new collaboration brought together leaders from both organizations in Brooklyn, New York, to outline a joint framework that strengthens the capacity of BVSJ and its partners to deliver comprehensive, coordinated services across the city.

Dixon Center is aligning some resources and projects around BVSJ’s services in New York City’s underserved communities. We are also sharing innovative solutions garnered from our national network. As a result together we are creating a model for scalable, sustainable collaboration that strengthens the broader ecosystem of local veteran-serving organizations.

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Building Internal & External Capacity

Building Internal & External Capacity

Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services’ is actively attending conferences and celebrations to leverage and strengthen the Center’s network of partners, supporters, community-based programs, veterans and their families. 

As an example, recently we participated in the Community Work Service’s (CWS) “City of Champions Celebration” in Boston, MA.  

After more than 10 years of working together we and CWS are still enabling veterans and their families living and working in the New England area. Of note, we and CWS are both members of The Fedcap Group.

Attending events like this is a way to build public awareness, encourage community involvement and promote community-based services that are integrating veterans into their direct services. 

We cherish these opportunities to be the voice of the veterans. To this end, we will be attending the Opportunity Finance Network’s (OFN) conference in Washington, D.C. to seek information on access to capital and technical assistance for veteran small business owners. 

If you see us make sure you say hi. 

Pictured: Craig Stenning, Executive Director, CWS & Col. Duncan Milne, USMC(Ret.), President, Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services

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Our Development Framework for 2026

Our Development Framework for 2026

The development team at Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services is leveraging our learning and analysis of the previous years to refine our fundraising strategy. 

As part of our 3-year strategic growth plan, Dixon Center’s fundraising strategy for 2026 will be to diversify resources, deepen our major donor engagement, and solely invest our time in relationship development with funders aligned with our mission.
 
We will allocate resources to our four priority funder segments and propose solutions based on the impact and outcomes they seek:

  • Major Donors: Transformational change.
  • Corporate: ROI and employee engagement.
  • Research and Policy funders: Evidence of system redesign with our partner institutions.
  • Systems-change foundations: Collaborative and scalable solution models.

Additionally, we will leverage the networks and connections of our Command Council and current donors in our engagement with prospects. We will also invest in useful tools that enhance our relationship building and the procurement of new sources of revenue.

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Strengthening Partnerships at the NASDVA Annual Training Conference

Strengthening Partnerships at the NASDVA Annual Training Conference

Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services participated in the National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs (NASDVA) Annual Training Conference in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

The Conference is an opportunity to engage, listen, learn, and collaborate with leaders in every state who are addressing the most pressing needs of veterans and their families.

Dixon Center took the opportunity to influence others, by sharing ideas, and actions that are enhancing the capacity and capability of our partners. By working side by side with state directors, we help identify emerging well-being challenges faced by veterans and their families.

We are advancing comprehensive solutions that ensure veterans and their families receive the right services at the right time.

A highlight of the Conference is Dixon Center’s recent collaboration with the New York State Department of Veterans’ Services. Working with Viviana DeCohen, Commissioner of New York State Dept. of Veterans Services, we are enhancing the capacity of community-based organizations and state agencies across New York to better support veterans, with a special emphasis on empowering women veterans.

Dixon Center’s participation at the NASDVA Annual Training Conference is another step towards ensuring that the voices of veterans and their families are heard and that solutions are developed collaboratively, across states, and within communities.

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Remembering 9/11

Remembering 9/11

Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services is participating in events around the country remembering the victims of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. 

By participating in local ceremonies, we recognize, remember, honor, and mourn those who died, and their families affected by the heinous actions.

A few of our team will visit the Pentagon Group Burial Marker in Section 64 of Arlington National Cemetery. Others will attend ceremonies in local communities or will be watching the televised 24th Anniversary commemoration ceremonies from the Pentagon, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, and the Flight 93 National Memorial (Shanksville, PA).

Members of our team have always made the annual visit on 9/11 to the Group Marker whose significance is best described by the  Monuments and Memorials narrative, “On September 12, 2002, a funeral service was held in Memorial Amphitheater for the final remains of the 184 victims of the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon. While the service honored all 184 victims, it offered special recognition of the five families who did not receive any recovered remains of their loved ones.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld offered words of condolence at the service, stating, “We remember your loss, our loss, our country’s loss, and the loss of precious lives.” Following the service, a group burial was held in Section 64. A five-sided granite group marker stands over the gravesite, bearing the names of all those who perished in the Pentagon or aboard American Airlines Flight 77.”

We hope you will have the chance to reflect and remember on the anniversary of 9/11 and that someday you will be able to visit the Pentagon Group Burial Marker. It is located off Patton Circle in Section 64 — in the southeastern part of the cemetery, closest to the Pentagon.

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Building Solutions Together in Houston

Building Solutions Together in Houston

On August 26, 2025, Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services demonstrated its leadership in action at the Easterseals Greater Houston Texas Veterans + Family (TV+FA) Convening. Working alongside our trusted training partners, we helped design, organize, and conduct this important gathering of the 16 organizations that comprise the Texas Veterans + Family Alliance Collaborative.

Dixon Center took a leading role in shaping the agenda to ensure it reflected the real-world challenges facing providers. We facilitated sessions that spurred conversations and engagement among the partners, guided breakout groups focused on improving coordination of care, and provided frameworks that helped participants identify gaps and opportunities. Our team worked hand-in-hand with the team at Easterseals Greater Houston to create a collaborative environment where every voice could be heard and every organization could contribute to solution-building.

By helping convene this gathering and driving the conversations toward practical solutions, Dixon Center reaffirmed its role as a trusted partner in capacity-building—ensuring that together, the participating organizations are better positioned to deliver lasting impact for Texas veterans and their families.

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