Credit Union Donates $100,000 to Support Veterans
October 22, 2014
Hanscom AFB, Mass.� The Hanscom FCU Charitable Foundation is proud to announce a $100,000 donation to the Run to Home Base organization. The gift has launched a partnership with the Run to Home Base sponsors that will include participation in the 2015 Run to Home Base event.
"This is an amazing, exciting addition to the group of organizations that the Hanscom FCU Charitable Foundation is proud to call partners and friends," said Foundation Chairman Alan Hart. "Run to Home Base is doing crucial work to address a problem that too many of us at Hanscom are too familiar with, and getting involved was an easy decision."
Run to Home Base was introduced in 2010 by the Red Sox Foundation and the Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program. Since then participants and sponsors have raised more than $9 million to help Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and families heal the invisible wounds of war post traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury through clinical care, education and research.
The Hanscom FCU Charitable Foundation is an independent 501(c)(3)�organization, created to support Hanscom FCU members mutual interest in social welfare and betterment of quality of life. The Foundation distributes 100% of proceeds received�to an array of charitable organizations�that promote the health, education and well-being of�children, the homeless and convalescing veterans, with nothing deducted for administrative expenses.
Caption: Officials from the Hanscom FCU Charitable Foundation present a donation to the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program. Pictured are Home Base Program COO Michael Allard; Steve Wightman, Hanscom FCU Charitable Foundation Director; Karianne Kraus, Senior Director of Development of the Home Base Program; Paul Marotta, Hanscom FCU Chairman of the Board; Brigadier General (ret) Jack Hammond, Executive Director of the Home Base Program; and David Sprague, Hanscom FCU President/CEO.