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A living map of organizations serving veterans, transitioning service members, and military families — built for advocacy, connection, and navigation.
- 214 organizations
- 163 nonprofits
- 23 for-profit
- 28 government
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13 organizations
CCHIPS Community. 🤝 Peer
501(c)(3) dedicated to empowering women in Special Operations and advancing their vital role in conflict resolution — a lane virtually no other organization serves. Three programs: Gather (critical care, community, and training for women SOF Role Models), Engage (mentorship, sponsorship, and digital tools amplifying Role Models to inspire the next generation), and Connect (building a global network of women leaders). Has evacuated and supported 40+ Afghan Female Tactical Platoon counterparts, brought Role Models into schools across the country, combated silos in the women of Special Operations community since 2021, and produced the documentary series Guerrera honoring sacrifice and unity.
Cost and access not yet verified
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Serves: Special Operations, Women veterans
HCHIPS Help. 👨👩👧 Family
Founded in 2008 by Heidi Janson after reading about soldiers feeling forgotten overseas — Brides Across America has gifted over 28,000 free wedding dresses to military and first responder brides. Operation Wedding Gown events are held nationwide twice a year — around July 4th and Veterans Day — at partner bridal salons across the country, where qualifying brides are assisted by stylists and leave with a dress the same day. A BAA Outlet store in Andover, MA stocks 1,000+ gowns in sizes 00-24 starting at $99. Eligibility: the bride or fiance must be active duty or a veteran within the past 5 years, or a first responder. Valid military ID or documentation required. Registration opens on the BAA website before each event cycle.
Cost and access not yet verified
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Serves: All veterans, Military spouses, Women veterans
HCHIPS Help. 🏠 Housing
Founded in 2010 by Army veteran and cancer survivor Jas Boothe after Hurricane Katrina — the only national nonprofit solely dedicated to providing homeless women veterans and their children with safe and suitable housing. An estimated 55,000 homeless women veterans in the U.S. on any given day; women veterans are more than twice as likely to become homeless as civilian women. H.O.M.E. program: transitional housing, on-site case management, food, clothing, transportation, child care assistance, and employment support — with a strict policy that mothers and children stay together. S.A.F.E.: Savings Assessment and Financial Education preventing homelessness through budgeting, saving, and emergency financial assistance. Next Uniform: professional clothing and career preparation. The program has served thousands of women veterans and children since 2011.
Cost and access not yet verified
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Serves: Homelessness, Military children, Women veterans
HCHIPS Help. 👨👩👧 Family
One of the oldest women-veteran-serving nonprofits in the country and the only organization delivering critical childcare assistance specifically for this community. Serves honorably or generally discharged women veterans and their children with four core supports: emergency financial stipends for rent, utilities, car repairs, and basic needs; childcare stipends for working or student mothers of children ages 0-5, usable with any licensed provider of the mother's choosing; warehouse distributions of diapers, hygiene supplies, and children's goods; and Warrior Connect information, referrals, and warm handoffs to partner agencies. Also runs Women Veterans Lead leadership development. Eligibility requires being employed or enrolled in school (or working with an approved employment partner) and demonstrating financial need. Financial and childcare assistance currently covers residents of California, Virginia, New York, and New Jersey; the referral and community programs reach more broadly. Has impacted over 7,500 women and children, with 98% of financial-assistance clients remaining housed at 12 months.
Cost and access not yet verified
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Serves: All veterans, Military children, Women veterans
ICHIPS Identity. 🤝 Peer
Texas-based nonprofit dedicated to helping women veterans help themselves — providing the means for self-knowledge and self-renewal after service. Programs: STARS (financial resiliency — comprehensive Whole Health program with financial experts and Texas State Certified P2P Mental Health Specialists, culminating in a certificate and unlocking new resources), Coffee and Conversation and Table Talk Color Me Camo (peer-led groups for women veterans to share, reset, and move forward together), holistic wellness (physical health, nutrition, mental health, stress reduction, and mindfulness), and resource navigation through a network of community partners. Texas Veterans Commission grantee ($250,000 awarded 2025). Emergency financial assistance for rent, mortgage, and utilities available monthly through the TVC Fund for Veterans' Assistance.
Cost and access not yet verified
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Serves: Women veterans
HCHIPS Help. 🏠 Housing
Connecticut-based nonprofit serving 1,800+ veterans since 2002 with transitional housing (42-bed men's program), Connecticut's first and only transitional home exclusively for homeless female veterans and their children, permanent supportive housing, clinical mental health and substance use treatment, and vocational training and job placement. VA Connecticut Healthcare System partner. All programs VA-referred.
Cost and access not yet verified
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Serves: Homelessness, Women veterans
CCHIPS Community. 🤝 Peer
Founded in 2010 by Army veteran Mitchelene BigMan — White House Champion of Change recipient — dedicated to empowering Native American women veterans and active duty service members worldwide. A virtual organization with members stationed globally, serving as the first all-female Native American color guard in the country. Programs: readjustment support and cultural reintegration for transition to civilian life, mental health and wellness resources, career readiness programs, cultural preservation and advocacy through educational programs and community events, and benefits navigation with tribal veterans services officers. Open to non-military and non-Native allies as support members. Because Native American women are the fastest-growing population of veterans and serve at some of the highest rates per capita of any demographic group.
Cost and access not yet verified
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Serves: Native American, Women veterans
CCHIPS Community. 🤝 Peer
Founded in 2005 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center by retired Navy Captain Ed Nicholson — the nation's leading nonprofit using fly fishing as therapeutic intervention for veterans. More than 7,000 veteran participants actively healing annually across 45 states, supported by nearly 4,000 volunteers. Programs include fly fishing, fly casting, fly tying, and rod building — beginner to advanced. All equipment and fishing trips provided at no cost. VA MOU and DoD hospital partnerships enable direct referrals as therapy. A specific commitment to women veterans is woven into the program design. Receives no government funding.
Cost and access not yet verified
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Serves: Disability/Wounded, All veterans, Women veterans
CCHIPS Community. 📣 Advocacy
The only national organization advocating for and supporting both currently serving service women and women veterans, regardless of rank, branch, or years of service. Founded in 2007 by women veterans struggling to get VA claims approved, incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 2009. Early work established that post-traumatic stress resulting from sexual assault should be recognized by VA the way combat stress is — a change that reshaped MST claims. Today combines legislative and policy advocacy on combat integration, harassment and assault, reproductive health care, and veterans benefits with direct support: one-on-one case management, VA claims navigation, mental health and housing referrals, vetted pro bono legal referrals from military law experts, and a confidential 24/7 emergency assistance hotline at 888-502-8755. Programs are designed and led by women veterans.
Cost and access not yet verified
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Serves: All veterans, LGBTQ+, Women veterans
HCHIPS Help. 🏠 Housing
The largest nonprofit provider of housing and supportive services to homeless and at-risk veterans in the country, operating on a Housing First model. Runs emergency and shelter beds providing low-barrier access, transitional housing in supportive therapeutic communities, and permanent supportive housing, alongside wraparound career services, mental health and wellness care, and case management. Since launching a dedicated housing development division in 2017 has been building multi-family buildings, large residential campuses, tiny home communities, and individual affordable housing units in cities nationwide. Serves veterans and their families. Intake line: 877-548-7838.
Cost and access not yet verified
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Serves: All veterans, Homelessness, Women veterans
PCHIPS Purpose. 🚀 Entrepreneurship
Online and in-person training program for women veterans and female military spouses interested in starting businesses.
Cost and access not yet verified
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Serves: Military spouses, Women veterans
CCHIPS Community. 🤝 Peer
Northern Virginia's dedicated peer network for women veterans — building community, connection, and sisterhood for women who served in the greater NoVA region. Provides a local complement to national women veteran networks: regular gatherings, peer support, advocacy, and a community of women who understand military service from the inside. Fills the geographic gap for women veterans in the DC-metro area who need local connection rather than national programming.
Cost and access not yet verified
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Serves: Women veterans
CCHIPS Community. 🤝 Peer
Nationwide peer support network specifically for women veterans — structured small-group meetings led by trained women veteran Peer Leaders, offered locally and virtually. Since 2017 has trained 298 Peer Leaders, run 215 groups, and served 1,444 women veterans. Welcomes all women veterans regardless of era, branch, rank, length of service, or discharge status. Developed with VA National Center for PTSD researchers and backed by peer-reviewed research. Also runs the BRIDGES transition program for women service members.
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Serves: Women veterans
