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SUSTAINING OUR IMPACT TOGETHER


As our veterans return home, each one has a unique next chapter, characterized by personal and service-related challenges, opportunities, and resilience.

At the Bob Woodruff Foundation, we invest in the next chapter for our veterans and their families. After Bob was critically wounded while reporting on the war in Iraq, the Woodruffs had a lot of help with their transition to the next chapter. Our mission is a nonpartisan expression of their gratitude and desire to ensure all veterans receive the same levels of care and support. Now 18 million strong, and growing by about 250,000 each year, our veterans are your neighbors, your frontline workers, your first responders, and your community leaders.

We navigate, organize, and invest to strengthen the veterans service landscape.

  • We use proprietary data, extensive research and enduring relationships to identify the most pressing needs of veterans and their families, and the programs that best meet those needs
    • Since 2007, we have invested over $75 million
      in best-in-class programs
    • We shape and strengthen these programs by measuring their results and helping improve their efficacy
    • Where best-in-class solutions don’t already exist, we build them ourselves, as we did with our Local Partner Network and the Veterans In-Vitro InitiAtive (VIVA)
  • We also raise awareness about our veterans’ needs, as well as the positive impacts our veterans have on communities, in the workplace, and on our economy
  • We strategically built and support a national network of organizations with resources that are accessible to every US veteran where they live and work

Veterans have earned the opportunity to write their next chapter, despite the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In April 2020, we published the first data-driven paper on COVID-19 implications for veterans. Our research yielded critical insights, including the rapid development of three conditions – emergent trauma, loneliness due to social isolation, and unplanned job or wage loss – that together would create a “perfect storm” of mental health challenges for veterans. We immediately deployed millions of dollars to support veterans and sustain the organizations that serve veterans, including by increasing virtual programming and expanding community-based tele-mental health services.

In the midst of this adversity, we have seen our veterans continue to lead and serve in different ways in communities around the country. We are inspired and ready to support.

Stand with us today to sustain and grow our impact throughout and long after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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