Top Seven Best Practices of HFOT’s Donors

| By Lisa Duffy
Categories: Blog, Fundraising, Home
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Top Seven Best Practices of HFOT’s Donors
Our donors are discerning and sophisticated. They want to ensure their hard-earned funds are helping a legitimate and fiscally responsible organization, so they do their homework, often consulting and relying on the guidance of professional evaluators such as Charity Navigator. If you recognize any of these habits in your own giving practices, congratulations—and thanks for …

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HFOT’s 6th Annual Celebrity Auction on eBay raises over $300,000! 

| By Teresa Verity
Categories: Blog, Fundraising, Home
Homes For Our Troops raised over $300,000 during its 6th Annual Veterans Day Celebrity Auction offered through eBay for Charity! CNN’s Jake Tapper, a longtime HFOT supporter and National Board Ambassador, along with actors George Clooney, Mindy Kaling, Don Cheadle, and fellow National Board Ambassador Wynonna Judd enlisted the help of friends, namely movie stars …

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What you give to HFOT dads

| By Teresa Verity
Categories: Blog, Fundraising, Home
An accessible living environment plays an especially crucial role for severely injured Veterans who are fathers. Receiving a specially adapted custom home from Homes For Our Troops enables them to care for their children without barriers in a safe environment. Homes For Our Troops recipient Army Specialist Brett Bondurant can tend to his newborn son …

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Thank you for your support during our 3rd Annual Day of Giving!

| By Breeana Baptista
Categories: Blog, Fundraising, Home
We raised over $260,000, during our 3rd Annual Day of Giving on July 12. If you didn’t get a chance to join us on Monday, there’s still time to help our important mission! Your support will help advance our mission of building and donating specially adapted custom homes to our nation’s most severely injured post-9/11 Veterans nationwide, …

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How to hold a fundraiser for injured Veterans in 2021

| By Victoria Weston
Categories: Blog, Fundraising, Home
Bob Riley, former Governor of Alabama, once said, “Hard times don’t create heroes.  It is during the hard times when the hero within us is revealed” Webster’s Dictionary defines a hero as a person admired for achievements and qualities, and we couldn’t think of a better way to describe our fundraisers. While the world struggled …

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