One Way Every Day: March 23 - The Veterans Site

In the past I have posted about The Greater Good Network and their click to give sites. You can make a difference with the click of your mouse! You can click to help a variety of different causes and they have recently added another... now you can click to help Veterans in Need. In less than five seconds. visitors to The Veterans Site can click on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button and provide meals for homeless and hungry veterans and their families. How? Each click — free to the visitor — generates funds paid by site sponsors. The funding goes to The Veteran Site's charity partners who use it specifically to provide meals for veterans.

Help veterans in need with one click. The Veterans Site

The Veterans Site provides simple, effective, feel-good ways to address hunger for veterans in need and their families: providing nutritious meals. Although veterans make up 8% of the overall population in the United States, according to a recent Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) study, 12% of the homeless population are veterans — 16% if you're counting adults only. The Veterans Site has partnered with charities across the nation to fund nutritious meals for these veterans, who selflessly served our country and have earned our respect and gratitude, and their families.

A recent study conducted by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reports that on any given night there may be over 75,600 homeless veterans in shelters and on the streets across the country. Over the course of one year (October 2008-September 2009), 136,334 veterans spent at least one night in a shelter or transitional housing program, more than 5,000 of them alongside their families.

While veterans represent 8% of the total population in the United States, they are disproportionately represented among our homeless: a startling 12% of the homeless population are veterans, or 16% of homeless adults. Most homeless veterans — over 90% — are male. About half of homeless veterans are disabled.

The Veterans Site is more than a simple, free way to give a homeless and hungry veteran a meal. It is also a vehicle to spread the word that homeless veterans are out there and that they need our help. Together, we have an opportunity to honor and assist our country's homeless veterans and their families. These men and women were here for us when we needed them. Now it is our turn to reach out to help them.

The Veterans Site is part of the GreaterGood Network, a family of click-to-give sites. When you click on the blue "Click Here to Give - it's FREE!" button, you are shown advertisements from their sponsors. Sponsors pay an advertising fee, and 100% of that fee goes to the charity partners to provide meals for veterans in need.

Please remember to click every day to help veterans in need, and spread the word!

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