Exchange Club of Jackson to Help House Homeless Veterans
Club Partners with Veterans Matters to Host “11/11@7” Community Rally
Jackson, Tennessee – The Exchange Club of Jackson will host a “11/11@7″Rally to increase awareness about homeless veterans within the community, and across the country, as well as to raise funds to help house those homeless veterans and their families. As the name suggests, the Rally will be held from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Veterans Day, at Mulligan’s 1037 Union University Drive. Community members and the media are invited to participate in the “11/11@7” Rally and help support this important cause.
Through a national partnership between The National Exchange Club, to which the Exchange Club of Jackson belongs, and Veterans Matter, the club will join other Exchange Clubs in simultaneous events being held across the country. Exchange Clubs and communities throughout the United States will join together in an effort to end homelessness for 2,000 veterans by raising a portion of the $1.5 million needed for the push. The funds raised will go directly to Veterans Matter, a nonprofit program dedicated solely to moving homeless veterans into safe, permanent housing.
The United States currently maintains a population of nearly 50,000 veterans, and veterans’ families, living in shelters and on its community’s streets. Funds raised through the “11/11@7” walks and rallies will directly benefit these American heroes by providing deposits/first month’s rents of veterans approved for HUD-VASH housing vouchers through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This simple, but meaningful, gift will allow homeless veterans and veterans’ families to finally cross the threshold from surviving on the streets to living in their own homes.
“The National Exchange Club is proud to partnership with Veterans Matter, a grassroots nonprofit with a 100% success rate of housing veterans in a government program that has a 91% success rate in keeping veterans housed,” says Tracey Edwards, Executive Vice President, The National Exchange Club. “Exchange recognizes the tragedy that so many servicemen and servicewomen, those who’ve fought to protect us, have been forgotten. Exchange’s members are proud to step up and help provide a solution to this senseless social problem.”
“We are honored to partner with The National Exchange Club, as it, too, is actively dedicated to caring for the men and women who served, as well as the most vulnerable people in all communities,” says Ken Leslie, Founder, Veterans Matter. “Exchange and Veterans Matters are declaring this a ‘State of Urgency’ because there are veterans and veteran families with children waiting, right now, for housing. They simply need help getting over the threshold.”
For more about this great program to help our veterans – click to VeteransMatter.org
