The Promises Kept Veterans Charity Challenge:
Round 2 – Cast Your Vote Today!

THIS POLL IS CLOSED!

Over the course of the past year, we have received letters of interest from dozens of worthy organizations serving veterans and families in need at the community based level – where so much of the outreach and service delivery to those most in need, and most at risk, is performed.

For our second Challenge giveaway, we have once again narrowed the field down to three finalists. All will receive grants from Charlie Brown for Congress – but by voting for your favorite this week, you get to determine how much they receive!

1st Place:	$15,000
2nd Place:	$10,000
3rd Place:	$5,000

Here are the finalists for the second round of fund distribution:

• Cottage Housing Inc. (www.cottagehousing.org) creates healing residential communities where homeless people are able to support one another while accessing the full range of supportive services they need to make the transition from the streets to self-sufficiency. A significant number of Military veterans and their families are among the over 500 adults and children served annually. More than 75% of those enrolled in Cottage Housing’s award-winning supportive housing programs graduate, and eighteen alumni have moved from homelessness to home ownership. Although inflation rose by 33.1% in the last decade since these projects opened, government funding sources have not provided a single cost-of-living adjustment. Funding from the Promises Kept Initiative would be used to offset the rising costs of our services to homeless veterans.
• The Greater Oroville Homeless Coalition (gohc.home.comcast.net): helps homeless families or those who are at risk of becoming homeless, acquire, access, or maintain safe, temporary or permanent shelter---often veterans, or women with children. GOHC is composed entirely of concerned community volunteers, with fully 100 percent of every donated dollar providing direct services to the homeless in our community. According to a recent homeless census conducted with the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, a majority of the thousands of Butte County’s homeless population are military veterans, and with the help of Promises Kept Challenge funds, GOHC expects to serve several hundred during the coming year.
• Rebuild Hope (www.rebuildhope.org): is a national non-profit organization dedicated to mobilizing individual Americans to improving the financial health of severely injured soldiers, veterans and their families during their transition from military to civilian life. Rebuild Hope operates the nationʼs only online financial support network that enables individual Americans to directly and efficiently donate money to pre-qualified beneficiaries who suffered life-altering injuries since September 11, 2001. The Rebuild Hope website displays the personal profiles of individuals who need financial assistance along with their specific unmet needs and enables donors to meet those needs--100% of the dollars designated by donors for beneficiaries are distributed to them. Veterans residing in District 4 (Modoc, Sierra, Plumas, Lassen, Butte, Nevada, El Dorado, Placer and Sacramento) will be given priority for all Veteran's Charity Challenge Funds.

Remember, there is just one more challenge giveaway between now and the election on November 4th. All organizations who apply now will receive consideration for funding for our final round later this fall. And if you know an organization that is helping veterans and families in need here in Northern California, encourage them to visit our Promises Kept page to learn more about the challenge, and encourage them to write us to request consideration for funding.

NO VETERAN LEFT BEHIND!