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Important Update: Changes to Our Hands Up 4 Our Heroes Program

Give 2 Those has recently refined its guidelines, leading to significant changes in our Hands Up 4 Our Heroes program. Our direct monetary support is now more targeted, focusing on specific areas of need rather than a broad range of expenses.

As part of this shift, Give 2 Those will no longer cover costs related to:

Medical bills
Rent or mortgage payments
Personal or car loans
Credit card balances
Child support, tax liabilities, or legal fees
Home improvement projects
Cable/internet bills
Elective medical procedures

We understand these changes may impact those who previously relied on broader financial support. However, this adjustment ensures that we responsibly allocate our funds and continue making a meaningful difference in the areas where we can have the greatest impact.

Once our yearly funds for Hands Up 4 Our Heroes are fully allocated, we cannot overcommit or divert resources from other vital programs. This approach allows us to maintain the stability and sustainability of our organization while still supporting our heroes through other key initiatives.

Though our direct financial support is now more focused, Give 2 Those remains deeply committed to honoring and assisting those who serve, save, protect, and sacrifice.

In thanks to your support Give2Those has also been able to ship over 300 pounds of goods to Military Members Deployed

• Provided Financial Assistance to Gold Star Family

• Provided over 150 pounds of goods to Deployed Troops

• Provided Financial Assistance to Active Duty Military Member

• Provided Financial Assistance to Gold Star Family going through hardship

• Fallen Worcester Firefighter Christopher Roy’s daughter through the "Ave Roy Fund”

• Provide gift cards to military families in need at Christmas

• Provided Financial support to the Leisure Knoll Veterans Club "Operation Christmas Cheer Care Packages"

• Provided items for the Old Bridge AFROTC care package for deployed military members.

• Essential items provided to help the Coast Guardsmen in need stationed across all units on Cape Cod

• Provided gifts for Operation Military Smile

• Provided toys and baby items to American Legion Riders Chapter 78 Hyde Park

• Provided Financial Assistance to Active Duty Military Member who lost everything in a house fire.

• Provided Financial Assistance to Veteran get service dog.

• Provided Financial Assistance to a Combat Veteran with two (2) children during hardship

•Provided Financial Assistance for First Responder during hardship

• Provided Services for Veterans home

• Distributed funds to Old Bridge AFROTC

• Distributed funds to Old Bridge Municipal Alliance

• Provided Financial Assistance to a Veteran with a debilitating diseases hit with hardship

• Active Duty Military Family Gift Card support during hardship

• Persian Gulf War Veteran Gift Card support during family medical treatment hardship

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Florida Gold Star Family going through hardship.

• Provided Financial Assistance to Veteran family hit with hardship

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Gold Star Family hit with medical hardship

• Provided Immediate Support to Gold Star Family

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance for an Illinois Firefighter who lost everything in a house fire

•Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to a Massachusetts Gold Star family member hit with hardship

•Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Veteran hit with hardship

• Provided holiday gifts for Operation Military Smile

• Provided holiday gifts for American Legion Riders

• Provide gift cards to military and first responder families in need at Christmas

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Veteran-Retired Officer Family

• Provided Financial Assistance and Support to Vietnam Veteran-Retired Firefighter

• Provided a Ramp for Vietnam Veteran-Retired Firefighter

• Provided Financial Assistance and Support Military Family hit with sudden tragedy start of 2020

• Provided Gift cards to Active Duty Police Officers

•Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Active Duty Military Members family hit with tragedy

•Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Police Officers Family hit with sudden tragedy

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Disabled Veteran

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Gold Star Family

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance for an Active Duty Member in Massachusetts who lost everything in a house fire

•Spreading Kindness and Thanks to those who served through the You've Been Ducked with Dunkin Gift Card

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Gold Star Family

• Provided 50 pounds of goods to Deployed Troops

• Provided Memorial Bracelets to Gold Star Families of Fallen Military Members

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Combat Veterans Family due to sudden tragedy

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Marine Veteran

• Provided Assistance to Vietnam Veteran (Medical)

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Army Veteran

• Joined Forces with American Legion Riders to fulfill Christmas Wishes

• Provided Assistance to Military families during Christmas time

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Military Family

• Provided support to Vietnam Veteran

• Provided Support Care Gift Basket to Massachusetts State Trooper Wounded in the Line of Duty

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to EMT family struck with tragedy

• Provided Support/Comfort Care Gift Basket for EMT First Responder family

• Provided Support/Comfort Care Gift Basket for Active Duty Military Family

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance Veteran in Texas

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to Gold Star Family

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance OIF/OEF AF Veteran

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance for Korean War Veteran Funeral Expenses

• Provided Dunkin Gift Cards to members of the 101st Field Artillery, MA

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance Afghanistan Veteran in New Hampshire

• Provided Immediate Financial Vehicle Assistance to Vietnam Veteran

•Provided Immediate Assistance to send Iraq Veteran to Texas Sanctuary that Helps Veterans with PTSD

• Provided Dunkin Gift Cards to our First Responders who serve our communities.

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance to National Guardsmen family hit with sudden tragedy

• Provided Immediate Financial Assistance Florida Veteran

• Provided grocery support to Gold Star Family

• Provided Multiple care packages to a unit deployed overseas

• Provided Support/Comfort Care Gift Basket to Retired Veteran

• Provided Support/Comfort Care Gift Basket Fallen Firefighters Family in CT

• Provided Support/Comfort Care Gift Basket Firefighters family hit with tragedy

• Provided Immediate Assistance & Support to a WWII Veteran N.H

• Provided Support to Marine Veteran Service Dog

• Provided Care Package items for Homeless Veterans

•Provided Immediate Assistance to Active Duty Army Service Member hit with sudden crisis

•Provided Immediate Assistance to Army Veteran hit with sudden crisis

•Provided Immediate Assistance to Marine hit with sudden crisis

•Provided Immediate Assistance to Army Veteran hit with sudden hardship

•Provided Immediate Assistance to Florida Police Officer hit with sudden hardship

• Provided military family Assistance at Christmas

• Giving Thanks to our Men and Women in Blue during the Holidays

• Provided Immediate Assistance to Gold Star Military Family

• Provided Support to a military family who lost everything in a house fire New Years Eve

• Provided Support to a Marine Veteran

• Provided Financial Assistance to Active Duty Military Member getting ready to deploy.

• Honored military Family at Bourne National Cemetery

List Continues beyond what is listed.

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Testimony Story: From Marine Veteran Tom

As a recent recipient, I want to express how truly grateful and thankful I am to Heather and Give2Those. I started the year out without water: well pump went right before Christmas and I was having problems with the new one .. April hot water heater goes and a week later pressure tank for well pump goes (insert Big scream - because I just got even in May from the well pump). The mortgage co didn’t care the program they have is a joke .. defer mortgage payments for 3 or 6 months, but on month 4 or 7 You Have to have all 4 or 7 payments.....Yeah Right on disability.I tried getting ahold of VA rep in town with no luck , not unusual.. just frustrating because they don’t seem to know how to return calls , again not unusual (the VA Doctors don’t either). So I took it upon myself to make my own program and use my mortgage payments Towards Needed things , pressure tank , hot water heater and installation $$. So I’d be behind and play catch up, nothing new, just old and tiresome. In comes Joe with a phone call what’s going on and everything, after telling him what’s been going on and what I had to do and everything he tells me he knows exactly who to contact and he’ll make a call. While I knew about Give2Those my thinking from having frontal lobe damage has slowed down, I didn’t even think about contacting them even just to see if they could point me in the right direction..

Thank you again for everything. I’m caught up and ahead, able to relax and breathe. To Joe , Heather , Give2Those and everyone Thank you, Semper Fidelis

***** Please Note this is one of Give2Those programs and we do our best to help those in need of support that falls under Hands Up 4 Our Heroes. Give2Those allocates funds to each of their programs based on the demands and needs. Our team works hard through events, and spreading the word for our mission to get participants to events, donations in and sponsorships but due to demand we are not always able to accommodate everyones request once we have expended all of our available funds/resources within the year and Give2Those.org does not pull funds from other programs.