LAS POSITAS COLLEGE VETERANS
COMMUNITY SUPPORT GROUPS
BLUE STAR MOMS
- Danville Chapter
Blue Star Moms is a Danville-based organization that is a chapter of the Blue Star Mothers of America, founded in 1942 by a mother who had two sons serving in World War II. It provides opportunities for Tri-Valley mothers of sons and daughters now in the military to share concerns, needs, and emotional support. It also prepares and ships care packages.
OPERATION S.A.M.
Operation Supporting All Military is a Livermore-based nonprofit organization, serving Livermore and Pleasanton, with volunteers from throughout the Tri-Valley collecting donations for small necessities to put into comfort packages to ship to local military personnel serving in the war zone(s).
OPERATION: MOM
During World War II, a group of mothers who had sons or daughters involved in the war, formed a support group. Today, military support groups are formed within their own branches. Our group, Operation: MOM was created in the same supportive spirit with two differences. The first difference is that Operation: MOM includes all family and friends of those who are active military personnel. We serve as a support group for parents, spouses, sisters, brothers, close family, and friends of those securing our freedom, whether here or afar. The second difference is Operation: MOM includes all branches of service. Operation: MOM extends this purpose to the families of those on the battlefield, in the air, on the seas and under them and those just starting out in their military training. It is important we support one another, assist one another, and meet the special needs all of us are having or soon will experience, no matter what branch of service our loved one is in.
We also provide direct support to our military personnel who are currently deployed overseas through letters of encouragement, food packages, and other necessities that will remind our troops of how much they are supported and loved. We remind them of our great appreciation for their contribution to each and everyone of us on the home front. Our military troops will face their enemies knowing we are praying for each and every one of them, and thinking of them often. We are united as Americans, one country, and for one great purpose: FREEDOM!
The income from our products will go towards serving our troops and their families. Our greatest resource is not our financial effort, but the great belief in a strong county that binds the hearts of our volunteers to reach others for the same unified purpose.
PLEASANTON MILITARY FAMILIES
Organized in 2004, as a support group for active military personnel and their families. The group provides on-going emotional support, as well as goods and services as needed to address the needs of families impacted by key wage earners being deployed for extended periods away from home. It facilitates counseling services through local churches and nonprofits to address emotional distress, financial assistance, and services for those returning from deployment. Every returning comrade receives a special welcome home celebration.
"To provide care, comfort and support to the families of military
personnel (Active Duty, National Guard and Reserve) who live in
Pleasanton and surrounding communities as their loved ones serve in harm's way around the world--especially those involved with Operation Iraqi
Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and in the Global War on Terror."
LIVERMORE VETERANS FOUNDATION
The mission is clear and simple – support our troops, both active duty and retired.
We accept no hidden agendas or self-aggrandizement. All monies collected go to the direct benefit of the troops - any need identified by them, we try to meet. We have a Board of Directors, skilled professionals, available to provide needed support. Everything is donated and all efforts are volunteer.
LVF operates on a multi-faceted approach:
- support for our adopted units through care packages and mail
- school supplies for children in countries where our troops are deployed;
- Operation Welcome Home for our Livermore sons and daughters returning from service, where the Mayor presents a proclamation thanking them for their service - a simple, yet profound acknowledgement
- aid for Wounded Warriors, our outreach to soldiers who come home wounded and have needs that may not be met, where we provide assistance with employment, housing, transportation, mentoring
Also developing programs include the Patriots’ Walk, where Livermore intends to construct a “Patriots’ Walk”with individual bricks, each having the name of a Livermore son or daughter who has served in the military; and a future Scholarship Fund where we propose establishing a fund for the purpose of making an education available to children of our troops.
ROTARY GROUPS
CASTRO VALLEY ROTARY
LIVERMORE VALLEY ROTARY
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.
All Rotarians subscribe to a higher business and ethical standard as noted by our four-way test.
THE FOUR-WAY TEST of the things we think, say or do:
- First , is it the TRUTH?
- Second, is it FAIR to all concerned?
- Third, will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
- Fourth, will it be BENEFICAL to all concerned?
THE SWORD to PLOWSHARE ORGANIZATION
Swords to Plowshares was started in 1974 by six veterans volunteering at the Veterans Administration in San Francisco and a few others who were concerned that the needs of returning Vietnam veterans were not being addressed. They formed an organization whose guiding principle was that veterans must never again be treated as second-class citizens, such as they were after the Vietnam War, and that war in general causes wounds that last beyond the battlefield. Swords to Plowshares is a community-based organization whose programs have evolved to meet the changing needs of veterans. With the country now involved in armed conflict, Swords to Plowshares’ programs will remain among the most needed in our society.
VETERANS of FOREIGN WARS #6298
The VFW, District 14 of California is structured to be operationally efficient while providing the highest degree of control of the organization's activities by its membership which is made up entirely of combat veterans. District 14 is based out of Oakland California and services 15 Post in the Alameda County.
WOMEN'S OVERSEAS SERVICE LEAGUE
WOSL is a national organization of women who have served overseas in or with the Armed Forces. American women who had served overseas with the military forces during World War One founded WOSL in 1921.
- To keep alive and develop the spirit that prompted overseas service.
- To maintain the ties of comradeship born of that service, and to assist and further any patriotic work.
- To inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation.
- To work for the welfare of the armed services.
- To assist, in any way in our power, the men and women who served and were wounded or incapacitated in the service of their country.
- To foster and promote friendship and understanding between the United States and all other nations of the world.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS - LIVERMORE, CA
COUNCIL #4588
Fr. Patrick Power Council was founded March 30th, 1958 and has been an active part of Livermore and the St. Michael and St. Charles parishes since. It is named after Father Patrick Power, the second pastor at St. Michael parish. He served from March 4th, 1879 through February 11th, 1915, and was instrumental in the early growth of the parish, including founding the St. Michael School. The Fr. Patrick Power Council works closely with the people of both of the parishes in Livermore, as well as other councils and parishes in the Tri-Valley area, providing funds for various projects, members being active participants in their parish. etc.
The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic family fraternal service organization with 1.6 million members. It provides members and their families with volunteer opportunities in service to the Catholic Church, their communities, families and young people.
