Military Family Support
Year-round coordination for approved family needs, community resources, volunteer support, and trusted referrals.
Our mission
Local service built on trust, dignity, and practical action
Military families and veterans carry responsibilities that often reach far beyond the uniform. This program is being built to meet practical needs through trusted local relationships, careful stewardship, and direct community participation.
Each initiative has its own purpose, but the standard remains the same: protect privacy, respect the people being served, and turn goodwill into organized help that makes a measurable difference.
Program portfolio
Focused initiatives for different moments of need
The program is broader than one season. Each initiative is developed with clear safeguards, responsible partners, and a practical path from support to impact.
Request support
Adopt a Military Kid for Christmas
A private, thoughtfully matched seasonal program supporting children from participating military families.
Cars for Vets
A developing partnership to place mechanically sound donated vehicles with screened veterans who need reliable transportation.
Seasonal family support
Give a Marine child a gift chosen especially for them
Children age 18 and younger from participating New Orleans-area Marine families are matched through a private, unit-supported process.
- 1Participating families are identified privately
Family-readiness contacts manage eligibility and keep personal information protected.
- 2Sponsors receive a family code
Only age, interests, and approved gift guidance are shared. No surnames, addresses, phone numbers, or financial details are provided.
- 3Children receive thoughtfully matched gifts
Siblings remain together so the family experience stays coordinated and complete.
- 4Gifts are checked and organized
Program volunteers verify labeling, timing, and delivery readiness.
- 5Families share a welcoming celebration
The program may include food, activities, holiday traditions, and time together.
Volunteer and partner
There is a place for every willing set of hands
Businesses, civic groups, veterans organizations, and individual volunteers can support the program in practical, well-defined ways.
Sponsor a family
Provide coordinated gifts for one participating family while honoring the program's privacy safeguards.
Bring it to work
Organize an employee giving campaign with one point of contact and clear collection deadlines.
Volunteer
Help with gift intake, organization, wrapping, celebration setup, hospitality, or distribution.
Offer services
Contribute food, event support, transportation, storage, printing, or other approved program needs.
Veteran transportation
Reliable transportation can change a veteran's life
Cars for Vets is being developed as a partnership among vehicle donors, automotive professionals, civic organizations, and military and veterans-service resources.
The goal is to place mechanically sound vehicles with screened veterans for whom reliable transportation will create the greatest practical benefit.
Private review is available: Veterans may request transportation assistance, and community members may offer a vehicle. Every request and donation is screened before a match is considered.
Private intake
Request support or take part
Choose the path that fits. Information submitted here goes directly to the protected program portal for private staff review.
Program leadership
Local leadership, practical service, and careful stewardship
The effort is chaired by Valerie Clark, a Marine wife and Marine mom, in collaboration with military-family volunteers and prospective community partners across Greater New Orleans.
The program is developing deliberately: establish trusted operating practices, protect participating families, and build partnerships capable of supporting seasonal and year-round initiatives responsibly.