How it Works

Military and Veteran families in need of additional support this holiday season can visit the Adopt-A-Family website between September 02 – December 1, 2024 or until program is full to learn more and apply.

Volunteers interested in supporting families can register to adopt a family and then provide gifts for the children and a grocery gift card for the family to put towards their holiday meal. Businesses and individuals interested in volunteering can register starting September 30, 2024. Click here for more information on volunteering.

The following families are eligible to receive support from Soldiers’ Angels Adopt-A-Family:

• E1-E6 Active Duty Service Members
• E1-E6 National Guard/Reserves who will be activated through December 25, 2024
• E1-E6 Deployed Service Members who are currently registered with Soldiers’ Angels for Deployed Support and will be deployed through December 25, 2024
• Honorably discharged post-9/11 wounded, ill, or injured Veterans with a 10% or more VA disability rating
• HUD/VASH Veteran families

To be eligible, all Military or Veteran families must be legal guardians to one or more children (biological, legally adopted, or step-child), aged 18 and under, living in the home, and not yet graduated from high school.

Once applied, families are placed on a priority placement list. Families who have not participated in Adopt-A-Family in the past and those with the greatest need receive priority.

• 1,898 Military and Veteran families supported
• 7,684 Children Supported
• 7,265 Christmas or holiday gifts sent to families
• $704,556 in gifts provide to supported families

In 2023, nearly 1,900 families were supported through the Adopt-A-Family program. However, additional sponsors were lined up to adopt even more families. Soldiers’ Angels has also expanded support for Adopt-A-Family to include Active Duty, Guard, and Reserve families who could use the support!

The 2024 goal is to increase the number of families supported by at least 10%! Please help us reach 2,100 or more families and get them the support they deserve. Please see the outreach materials in the next block that will help you spread the word about this worthwhile campaign.

• Helping Families
  • Not every Military or Veteran family is financially positioned to give their kids the holiday celebration they deserve.
• Providing Holiday Celebration
  • With the help of the Soldiers’ Angels Holiday Adopt-A-Family program, businesses, organizations, and individuals are connected to Military and Veteran families who could use some help providing the holiday celebration their families have earned.
• Sharing Gratitude
  • Together, we are helping America show its gratitude for the sacrifices our Service Members, their families, and our Veterans are making or have made to defend our great Nation.

Since its founding, Soldiers’ Angels has built one of the largest volunteer armies in the U.S. philanthropic community, with hundreds of thousands of “angel” volunteers assisting Veterans, wounded, and deployed personnel and their families.

In 2023 alone, through the work of Soldiers’ Angels volunteers, more than*:

• 1,332,654 Service Members, Veterans, and family members were supported
• 45,722 Veterans across the country were provided with food assistance
• 34,337 care packages sent to deployed
• 193,885 letters and cards mailed to deployed, Veterans, and caregivers

• Recruitment Memo
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• Family Recruitment Flyer (Coming Soon!)
• Volunteer Recruitment Flyer (Coming Soon!)

• Press Release
• Sample Social Media Posts [for Individuals/Groups]
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• Internal Memo [for Company’s/Orgs.]
• Internal Posts [for Company’s/Orgs.]
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