Connecting Vets to What's Theirs
Thousands of organizations help veterans. Nobody helps a veteran find the right ones. We do.
Two minutes with our Executive Director, Cory Gold. He didn't know the benefits he'd earned existed, or who to ask — the same gap every veteran hits, and the one we close.
A veteran rarely shows up with one problem — housing, a job, an ID, benefits, somewhere to sleep tonight, all at once. Most organizations solve one and hand over a list for the rest. We do the sorting.
Tell us what's going on; fifteen minutes is usually enough. We work out what you need — from housing and health care to benefits, work, and legal — then email you the organizations that fit, each with a name and a number. Two weeks later we check in, and if a door didn't open, we find the next one.
Any veteran. Any era. Any discharge. No cost.
"The veterans least likely to ask are the ones who need the most."
Some veterans are never going to call. So we go find them.
We embed in the community — shelters, local events, and the relationships that lead us to the veterans the system missed. No clipboard, no clinical lens. Real human contact first.
Once we find someone, the practical barriers come down before anything else. A ride to an appointment. A phone and a way to get online. A week somewhere safe while things get sorted. Then the work of connecting them begins.
Worth Their Weight prioritizes unsheltered veterans first, the population the desk-based referral model cannot reach. We do not turn away veterans who walk in or are referred to us. Triage is based on need.
Worth Their Weight, they put me in touch with the people I needed to get us what we need to keep our life going.
Your donation funds the outreach that finds veterans and the follow-through that connects them to what they have already earned. Donors pay so veterans don't. Every dollar you give means a veteran pays nothing.
Covers a veteran's ride to a medical appointment.
Puts a phone and a month of service in a veteran's hand.
Covers a week of emergency lodging while we sort out housing.
Funds the outreach and follow-through, from the first knock to an approved claim.
Worth Their Weight is a 501(c)(3). All donations are tax-deductible.
Questions? cory@worththeirweight.org · 833-WTW-VETS
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