Monthly Archives: November 2020

I Challenge you!

I challenge you! This year has been a challenge for many of us. I am thankful for the love of my family and friends, that I have remained employed and that I have a roof over my head and food on the table. During this holiday season, you can help those less fortunate by helping a veteran who is homeless by joining me in the CARDBOARD CHALLENGE. Veterans Matter – National Homeless Veterans Housing Program , they are working to stamp out veteran homelessness.

The Cardboard Challenge is simple: use cardboard and any other supplies to create your own unique sign, donate $10, and then challenge two friends to do the same. Here’s mine! Go to veteransmatter.org and click DONATE. I challenge you!

WALK TO END VETERAN HOMELESSNESS

Here’s the latest update from Veterans Matter – National Homeless Veterans Housing Program.  It’s not too late to join Veterans Matter for a virtual walk to end veteran homelessness on November 11, 2020. Those who are called to help homeless veterans can register and participate in individual or small group walks.

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE AND REGISTER TO JOIN THE VIRTUAL WALK.  Get involved in the walk and help combat veterans homelessness. 

During the Month of November, Above Artistic will be donating $3 of EVERY T-shirt sold to this awesome organization. Check out our Veteran’s Collection!

All Gave Some, Some Gave all

Above Artistic Partners with Veterans Matter!

https://veteransmatter.org/

Above Artistic is EXTREMELY excited to be partnering with @VeteransMatter for the month of November, spotlighting Veterans homelessness. Veterans Matter has placed 4,000 veterans since the organization was first founded in 2012!

The mission is simple, house as many veterans as we can, as fast as we can.

In 2012, Veterans Matter was launched in Toledo to house 35 local veterans and expanded nationally with the support of Dusty Hill of ZZ Top, John Mellencamp, and Mitch Albom, who wanted to help house veterans in their home states.

Veterans Matter – National Homeless Veterans Housing Program is a systems-level non-profit organization that works directly with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and local VA homeless programs to provide rental deposits and the veteran’s portion of the first month’s rent for chronically homeless veterans engaged in the HUD-VASH program. Using evidenced-based best practices, Veterans Matter has now housed over 4,000 veterans and over 1,400 veteran’s children in 25 states.

Want to help?  DONATE HERE!

During the month of November, Above Artistic will donate $3 from EVERY T-SHIRT SOLD ONLINE to Veterans Matter. Being a Veteran family, we are very passionate about this cause and are honored to be partnering with such a great organization.

November Cause – Veterans Homelessness

According to Volunteers of America, There are many factors involved in veteran homelessness – shortage of affordable housing, difficulty in finding a job with a livable wage that utilizes their military experience, dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and access to health care.   

Stars and Stripes says although the homelessness rate among veterans have been decreasing over the past 10 years, one homeless veteran is one too many.  Although The HUD-VASH program has vouchers for veterans to use, many veterans don’t take advantage of them because of the rising cost of housing and housing related expenses in some parts of the country.

This Month, we are shining a spotlight on Veteran Homelessness.  Being a Veteran family (Karen was in the Navy Nurse Corp and her father was a Marine), we want to work with organizations to raise awareness of veteran homelessness and provide links to resources and websites that can help. 

Here are some charities/non-profits to help homeless veterans.

We are active members of several Facebook Veterans-related groups and here are some of the charities/non-profits and other organizations we found to be good resources:

We are still talking with several organizations and will be announcing the organization we will be partnering with during our November Cause – Veterans Homelessness. Above Artistic is a T-shirt Company with a Cause and we will be donating $3 of every shirt sold online to our partner.  Check Back to see who our partner will be!!

Above Artistic Team

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