Goldman Sachs Gives
Goldman Sachs Gives is a donor-advised fund – a public charity that maintains individual accounts for donors who recommend grants to qualified non-profit organizations from their accounts. Established in 2007, Goldman Sachs Gives enables Goldman and its people to leverage their donations to charities in the communities where they live and work, or elsewhere around the globe. The focus of this contribution is on those areas that have been proven to be fundamental to creating jobs and economic growth, building and stabilizing communities, honoring service members and veterans and increasing educational opportunities. In 2011, Goldman Sachs Gives announced a new $20 million, five-year commitment to fund a network of nonprofits helping wounded and disabled veterans return to civilian life. As part of this commitment, Goldman is a major supporter of the ongoing Rush University-led Vets Prevail roll-out.
The Robin Hood Foundation
The Robin Hood Foundation, a public charity, targets poverty in New York City, touching the lives of more than 650,000 low-income New Yorkers. Relying on its own data-driven system for measuring impact, Robin Hood invested over $110 million in over 200 community-based organizations in 2010. It also provided these partners extensive technical assistance. Robin Hood works with a coalition of federal, state and city agencies and a cohort of nonprofit organizations on an initiative to connect low-income veterans to supportive housing, job-training programs, health care, counseling and other services to ease their transition to civilian life. Prevail is a key partner in this initiative, contributing its expertise in serving the significant mental-health needs of returning veterans.
McCormick Foundation
The McCormick Veterans Program (MVP) honors the service and sacrifice of America’s Veterans by maximizing the value they provide to their families, communities, and country. Together with government agencies, philanthropies, and committed individuals, MVP supports organizations that assist Veterans in overcoming their unique challenges and successfully re-entering life at home and work. The McCormick Foundation has helped support testing and early pilots of the Prevail model in the military community, and continues to work with Prevail to find new contexts in which to leverage the model.
Give an Hour
Give an Hour (GAH) is a 501(c)(3), founded in 2005 by Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen, a psychologist in the Washington, D.C., area. The organization’s mission is to develop national networks of volunteers capable of responding to both acute and chronic mental health conditions that arise within our society. To date, GAH has developed a network of over 5,000 mental health professionals willing to donate at least an hour of their time each week to provide free mental health services to military Service Members and Veterans. This represents the world’s premier network of volunteer mental health providers. GAH’s professionals provide counseling to individuals, couples and families, and children and adolescents, offering treatment for anxiety, depression, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injuries, sexual health and intimacy concerns, and loss and grieving.
Rush University Medical Center
Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) is a not-for-profit academic medical center. For more than 170 years, RUMC has been leading the way in developing innovative and often life-saving treatments. Today, it is a thriving center for clinical research, with physicians and scientists involved in hundreds of research projects developing and testing the effectiveness and safety of new therapies and medical devices. Dr. Stevan Hobfoll, Chair of the RUMC Department of Behavioral Sciences and an international expert in the effects of military stress and trauma, was integral to the development of Prevail’s flagship military programs. RUMC is currently leading a major national roll-out of the Vets Prevail program, which is aligned with the institution’s desire to expand its activities in preventative care and its ever growing commitment to veterans programs.