Soldiers’ Angels Community Partners

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION

Soldiers’ Angels is a national charity providing aid and comfort to the men

and women of the United States Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast

Guard, and their families and to improve the lives of a growing veteran

population.

“May No Soldier Go Unloved” encapsulates the motivation behind Soldiers’

Angels. The volunteers of Soldiers’ Angels work tirelessly in service to the organization and the veterans and military families we support. encapsulates the motivation behind Soldiers' Angels. The Angels work tirelessly to care and concern for

• 501(c)(3), tax-exempt nonprofit

• The largest volunteer network of any military charity in the country

• Provided over $90M in aid to military and veteran families

• Maintains an efficiency rating of 85%, which is above that of the

average nonprofit organization

• Fully Accredited by the Better Business Bureau

• Provided support to over 100,000 service members, veterans and

family members in 2013 alone

• Organized over 150 luncheons at VA Hospitals serving over

20,000 veterans, their families and VA Hospital staff.

• Provided sack lunches to over 2,000 homeless veterans.

• Provided hygiene kits and other necessity to over 10,000

veterans

Key Strengths:

WHAT ARE COMMUNITY PARTNERS?

Community Partners partner with Soldiers’ Angels to help us provide support to military families, wounded warriors,

deployed service members and veterans.

Community partners are often civic groups, businesses, churches, schools, scouts, sororities and youth groups who

have a desire to serve military families through Soldiers’ Angels.

In order for our organization to keep overhead low, we rely heavily on our volunteers and community partners.

Community partnerships are renewed each year and run from Jan 1 – Dec 31 of that year.

Community partners will be featured in a special section on our website.

INTERESTED IN BECOMING A COMMUNITY PARTNER? You can become a community partner in one or more of the following ways:

1. By setting up a collection drive at your school, church, or business to collect old cell phones, iPods, printer

cartridges, and other items to send to Funding Factory for recycling.

The link below contains a list of items eligible for collection for this program:

http://www.fundingfactory.com/programs/recycling/qualifying_items.aspx

A group must set a goal and collect a minimum of 20 items to be considered a community partner. Once the

collection drive is completed and at least 20 items have been collected, they can be sent to the Funding

Factory directly.

Please click the link below to print a pre-paid mailing label to send items to the Funding Factory.

http://www.fundingfactory.com/goal/soldiersangels.

2. Organize a collection drive and collect items on Soldiers’ Angels wish list.

Collect at least 50 items from the wish list. Once collected, contact Soldiers’ Angels to

receive an address to mail the items. Do not ship them to the headquarters in San

Antonio, unless advised by the staff to do so.

These items are used in care packages, hygiene kits, sack lunches for homeless vets and

to stock VA snack bars.

3. Collect monetary donations. It costs Soldiers’ Angels approximately $15 to mail each care

package and $45 to stuff and mail a care package. Community partners can organize

fundraisers to collect monetary donations to offset the costs of mailing and stuffing these

packages.

To be a community partner, groups are asked to raise a minimum of $150 from monetary

collections during the calendar year in which the group is participating.

Churches often take special offerings, schools and other groups often do coin

collections, car washes, bake sales and other events to raise funds for Soldiers’ Angels!

Community Partner Application Form

Group or Business Name: _____________________________________ Point of contact name and phone number: ____________________________________ Group or Business Address: Street:__________________________________________________________________ City: __________________________ Zip: _________________________ Please check the following ways your group will participate as a community partner: _____ Collect products for recycling (cell phones, iPods, printer cartridges) Our goal is to collect ________ number of items. _____ Host a collection drive to collect snacks and food items. Our goal is to collect ______ number of items. ______ Collect monetary donations for Soldiers’ Angels. Our goal is to collect _____ dollars for Soldier’s Angels. Our participation year will be Jan 1- Dec 31, 20________.

For more information about our Community Partner Program,

please contact:

Jennifer M. Cernoch, Ph.D.

Vice President of Operations

Soldiers’ Angels

2700 NE Loop 410, Suite 310

San Antonio, TX 78217

P: (210) 629-0020

C: (210) 748-0506

E: jcernoch@soldiersangels.org