Ten organizations received grants totaling $75,000 in the 2007 Newman’s Own competition, which is sponsored by Newman’s Own, Fisher House Foundation and Military Times Media Group. Each winning program of this year is committed to helping wounded troops and their families. First place winner of $15,000 was Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation at http://www.sentinelsoffreedom.org, which mobilizes volunteers to sponsor and assist severely wounded service members in getting established in a community. The Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund, at http://www.semperfifund.org, received a $10,000 grant for its specialized equipment program, and $5,000 for its family support program. Another $10,000 award went to
A Warrior’s Wish, Hope for the Warriors, at Camp Lejeune, N.C., which grants special wishes to severely injured service members. Grants of $5,000 apiece went to the following organizations:
Life Transformed, Harker Heights, Texas, which provides a variety of assistance to wounded service members and their caregivers;
Operation VALOUR IT, Soldiers’ Angels, San Antonio, which provides specialized wireless laptops to severely injured service members at Brooke Army Medical Center;
Operation VALOUR IT, Soldiers’ Angels, Pasadena, Calif., which provides specialized laptops to major military medical centers on a national level;
Operation Vet Tech, The Volunteer Center of RI Capitol Region RSVP, Providence, R.I., which operates a computer training lab at the Providence VA Medical Center for active-duty members, veterans and their families;
Wheels for Warriors, Operation Support Our Troops, North Kingstown, R.I., which purchases and customizes vans for severely disabled service members;
Wounded Family Assistance Program, Operation First Response, Inc., Culpeper, Va., which grants up to $750 to financially strapped families of wounded members; and
Wounded Warrior Wives, Operation Homefront — Texas, Fort Sam Houston, which provides funds to assist spouses of seriously wounded service members.
