Our Mission
Founded in 2005, the mission of Yellow Ribbon Fund is to provide support to severely wounded, injured or ill American service members, their caregivers, and families during lengthy medical recovery and reintegration into civilian life.
Our Crossroads Program provides assistance to active duty and disabled service members and their families through lodging, temporary housing, local transportantion, and other support while the service member or veteran is receiving medical treatment away from home at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, MD.
Our Keystone Program follows the service member and family back to their hometown to provide support, encouragement, and bonding with military families with similar medical issues. The program provides wellness, educational, fitness, and social programs to aid the healing process and strengthen the family. Retreats provide respite from the daily grind of coping with medical issues.
Our recipients rely on our donors to relieve the huge financial burden caused by temporay stays in the Bethesda area for treatment and to help build a local community of compatriots in their hometown.
How Your Donations Help
- $150 Can provide rental vehicle 1 service member - one month
- $3,000 Can pay monthly rent 1 apartment in Bethesda, MD
- $250 Provide lodging to visit hospitalized service member 1 hospital visit in Bethesda, MD
- $250 Provide lodging to visit hospitalized service member 1 hotel stay in Bethesda, MD
- $1,000 Provide wellness event 10 families in the United States
- $5,000 Send to special respite retreat 1 family in the United States
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Our Impact
over 1 year ago — Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
YRF provided a free rental car, 4 months of free temporary housing, and other help to SFC Keith X and his family while Keith received emergency cancer treatment at Walter Reed Hospital.
Causes We Support
Countries We Serve
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Disabled veterans and their families face a lifetime of challenges relating to their physical injury or debilitating illness. Our programs support the veteran and their family while the veteran receives medical treatment and rehabilitation and back in their hometown to help them face and overcome the challenges imposed by their medical condition. Yellow Ribbon Fund believes a strong family unit is critical for support of the disabled veteran.