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Unfortunately, there is a hidden disease that plagues our country’s heroes and warriors: neglect. My name is Hunter Magher and in the years past I have spent time in voluntary service at organizations like Glide Memorial Church and St. Anthony’s, where a large majority of impoverished visitors were veterans. It was during these volunteer visits that I began to cultivate a passion for helping the people who risked their lives for our country. I started by volunteering at the VA hospital for the last few weeks of summer. During my time at the VA I worked in a department called the Veterans Experience Center where Vets can get their basic needs met on a daily basis. While the VEC was doing a terrific job with the little staff they had, there were still large deficiencies with very basic daily items like clothes. After my time at the VA was over I knew that I had to provide assistance to the friends that I had made in the VEC like Bill and Valeria. So, I came up with the idea of donating new sweatshirts and sweatpants to veterans as small tokens of appreciation towards their unimaginable sacrifice in the hope that they start to feel less ignored by our society. This voluntary service is called Sweats For Vets.

In less than two months, Sweats for Vets received total donations of $18,500 which allowed us to purchase 550 new sweatpants and 570 sweatshirts for our veterans (almost triple my initial goal of 200 of each). I am so grateful for all of the support shown to our veterans and to this fundraiser. I look forward to furthering this campaign in the future with more opportunities to donate basic supplies to our veterans. Remember, we are the Land of the Free because of the Brave.

Sincerely,

Hunter Magher

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“Never was so much owed by so many to so few.”

Winston Churchill

Contact Sweats for Vets

325A Infantry Terrace, San Francisco, CA 94129, USA

sweatsforvetssf@gmail.com

(415) 297-2420

To Donate: https://givebutter.com/wju4ry

We are a 501c3 corporation.

Blog Post:

The Amazon black arrow covered my dining room. It looked like we had new wallpaper of drabby, brown cardboard boxes with the Amazon logo emblazed everywhere. The boxes were stacked to form a maze so that we could reach the dining room table, which became the command center. This is where the high-level marketing, operations, and planning occurred. High-level and intense meetings went down here. The Magher family formed our own non-profit…..Sweats for Vets.

My son Hunter conceived the idea. He volunteered at Glide, St. Anthony’s, and the VA Hospital. His question…., why are so many veterans without warm clothing? These brave men and women fought for our country; now they live in poverty or, worse, are homeless in the country they fought for. The solution is to raise money and donate new clothing to the SF VA.

It is a great plan, but how to execute? The whole family got involved. We found we all had unique qualities to add to our budding foundation. Hunter was our idea generator, Joseph was Chief Marketing Officer, Allie executed on record keeping, Henry was our operations guy, and I tried to keep it all going. It was a fun family project. Boxes came in daily. The Amazon drivers were particularly annoyed with our house. We would get orders of new sweats and have to repackage and condense them. The boxcutter became our friend. Ultimately, we had over 1,000 new sweatshirts and sweatpants blanketing our walls. We raised $18,500. It was a gift. Certainly, it was a gift for the veterans in need and a bonus of bonding for our family.

Sweats for Vets is a success, and we want to capitalize on this momentum with our second campaign. Our goal is to exceed our last campaign. We gained non-profit status, so there is no stopping us now. Check out our website: https://www.sweats-for-vets.com/.

Tricia Magher