We are excited to share our 2024 Impact Report! As our recent growth trend continues, 2024 saw Hero’s Bridge reach more veterans across the nation, secure more donations and sponsorships, deliver more meals, drive more miles, and make more visits than ever before....
Hero’s Bridge has had an incredible month! During Give Local Piedmont, we enjoyed a 25% rise in donations, greatly uplifting our mission. We’re deeply grateful to everyone who contributed and to the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation for championing...
Last month, we proudly celebrated our Vietnam Veterans during the annual 5K Run/Walk—and what a celebration it was! The turnout this year was simply amazing. We were especially pleased with the event’s new location. Participants enjoyed the flat, out-and-back course,...
This year marks the 15th anniversary of my father’s passing. He was a career Marine who served two tours in Vietnam. As we finalize the details for our 7th annual Vietnam Veterans 5K—now just a few days away on March 29—I find myself reflecting on what he would...
Spring is in the air… finally. I have enjoyed this week’s warmth and have thrown open the windows at home to welcome the fresh air. The recent Arctic winds made it uncharacteristically cold for prolonged periods of time, ice storms wreaked havoc on trees,...
I couldn’t have imagined a more uplifting end to 2024. Watching Warrenton Town Hall erupt with applause, seeing people embrace, and witnessing tears of joy will forever be etched in my memory. While I know the real work is just beginning, the monumental milestone of...
This year has given us so much to be grateful for. Hero’s Bridge mission advocates have supported our Village project for over a year—a project designed to provide senior veterans the opportunity to live their twilight years with dignity and grace, in a...
Hero’s Bridge remains hopeful as the Village project moves forward to the Warrenton Town Council and urges Council members to closely examine the well-documented affordable housing crisis our town is facing and to recognize that the Village project represents a...
Read the full September newsletter. Thank you to everyone who attended our first public hearing last week. With this complex project, it is easy to concentrate on stormwater management, sidewalks, and architectural details; however, we must remain focused on the...
Read the August newsletter. Hero’s Bridge continues the arduous process of requesting that the land proposed for the Village project be rezoned. The process is lengthy, time-consuming, and costly. For months, we have met with lawyers, engineers, and town zoning...
Since record-keeping began, Hero’s Bridge volunteers and staff have visited veterans 8,020 times! Look at the rest of our monthly and all-time numbers in this month’s newsletter.
Becoming a Hero Helper is simple and impactful. Just visit our website and select the Monthly Hero Helper Club option to set up your recurring donation. Every dollar you contribute directly supports the well-being and dignity of our older veterans. Pledging a...
Affordable housing can be built. It takes social entrepreneurs and philanthropists to brave the obstacles and the opposition. Reporter Tim Carrington with the Rappahannock-based Foothills Forum explains how the Hero’s Bridge Village illustrates the potential for...
This month, we are excited to unveil our monthly impact report. Each month, our supporters will see how their donations impact our programs and, more importantly, our veterans. Furthermore, the impact report will also present all-time statistics for the impact of each...
It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction to start a ripple of change. Check out the ripples we made! Last month, we… Welcomed 8 new Veterans representing WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam Era, and Desert Storm. Spent 129 hours with veterans from 52...
Hero’s Bridge operates with four core values. I would like to share them with you: Always remain centric to the older veteran No red tape No passing the buck Never leave a man behind Eliminating bureaucratic red tape enables Hero’s Bridge to provide...
Let me introduce myself… While many of our newsletter subscribers are well-versed with the Hero’s Bridge mission and suite of services, we gain new followers with every newsletter. With this being the first newsletter of the new year, it seems like a...
Happy Holidays from Hero’s Bridge! I would like to wish all of our veterans and their families, our volunteers, our supporters, and our team members a wonderful holiday season! We have enjoyed spreading the Christmas spirit with care and attention to senior...
It’s hard to believe that we are back in the holiday season already. It seems like only yesterday that I was thinking about all that I have to be thankful for, and really, the list hasn’t changed very much over the past year; it has only been amplified. First and...
This Halloween season, I find nothing scarier than navigating the anti-veteran rhetoric this political season regarding the Hero’s Bridge Village. Of course, we want to hear from the community about things that may affect them, such as parking, traffic,...
