Our Disabled Veterans Need Our Help
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Two Questions...
1. Do you have a dog?
What's it like to come home after a long, often frustrating day at work, to be welcomed by your 4 legged best friend? Don't they put a smile on your face every time you walk through the door? It's proven that our furry friends help us calm down and help reduce our stress with one big lick or hug.
2. Do you appreciate the sacrifices our disabled veterans have made to protect the freedoms we all enjoy in the United States?
Working hard and dealing with the 'stuff' that goes on every day in our lives is tough, but imagine that you're a disabled veteran back from the war who now faces incredible difficulties doing just about everything we all take for granted. Everything for them is tougher every day than it was before.
We love how our dogs makes us feel - so try to imagine how our veterans in need feel when they receive a well-trained furry best friend at no cost that not only makes them smile, but that also helps them with those difficulties to put some self-sufficiency and control back in their lives and reduces their stress just by being there for them all day, every day?
Our Disabled Veterans Need Our Help
Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) is a non-profit organization that spends 2 years training these dogs, and there's no way an individual with special needs can possibly start with a puppy and teach them to master these special skills. So without non-profits like CCI, and without support from you and me, there is no furry friend to help our veterans with basic tasks to improve their lives.
The CCI auction is this Saturday at the NADA Convention in San Francisco, so please help me raise $250,000 by January 26th, so we can help CCI provide 5 service dogs for 5 wounded veterans in need. Yes, it's extremely expensive to breed, train and provide these dogs, and that's why I'm asking you to get involved.
I've been a supporter of CCI's Veterans Initiative since 2013, when I became involved with CCI that year at the convention. The National Automobile Dealers Association's (NADA) Charitable Foundation along with ADESA auction's generous donation of motorcycles, off road vehicles and golf carts, have held auctions at the annual convention each year since 2012, to help CCI provide this incredible service to our veterans free of charge.
Coming from an extended family of veterans, and as a Vietnam veteran myself, plus being a dog lover since I was born, I instantly connected with CCI and its mission to help our wounded military veterans at the first auction I attended.
CCI provides highly trained assistance dogs and ongoing support to those who have received a dog - FREE of charge. They don't just train these dogs, they breed all of these dogs, they have volunteers who work with the dogs initially for about a year, and then the CCI staff spends up to another year to teach the dogs to help those who need them the most. And over the last 5 years I've seen how this partnership of dogs and veterans in need, literally changes lives overnight.
The challenge is the time and money it takes to provide these incredible service animals to our vets.
We're all aware of the thousands of wounded veterans in our country, but most of us don't see and don't understand the different and difficult challenges they face just to get through the day. That's why CCI is so important - they provide these dogs with the specific skills to fit each veteran's needs. They help our veterans in everything from daily tasks such as picking up dropped items, pulling their partner's wheelchair, opening doors, pushing buttons in elevators, and so much more to give our veterans a huge part of their lives back.
PTSD ... CCI has also launched the only V.A. approved Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) program in the nation. It's a pilot program to help veterans returning home with dogs who are specifically trained to help relieve their stresses with specific skills from nightmare interruption before it takes its toll, to turning on lights before entering a dark room, to even positioning themselves between their handlers and other people in crowded public situations, and so much more.
The cost to train an assistance dog is around $50,000 per dog - and our goal is to help raise $250,000 by January 26th so we can present these additional funds at the auction to help 5 more military veterans get part of their lives back - and give them back some of the most basic things we all take for granted.
If you're in the car business or just looking for a great cause to donate to - CCI is a tough one to beat so please help me make this auction one for the record books.
I've opened this GoFundMe page for CCI and our veterans, and I've kicked it off with my own personal donation of $25,000. That leaves another $225,000 ... We need either a few more $25,000 donations, or $1,000 donations, or $100 donations, or just a heck of a lot of people putting in any amount they can afford to help our wounded veterans.
Thank you in advance for your support and your donation.
Have a great 2019!
Joe Verde Sales & Management Training, Inc.
1. Do you have a dog?
What's it like to come home after a long, often frustrating day at work, to be welcomed by your 4 legged best friend? Don't they put a smile on your face every time you walk through the door? It's proven that our furry friends help us calm down and help reduce our stress with one big lick or hug.
2. Do you appreciate the sacrifices our disabled veterans have made to protect the freedoms we all enjoy in the United States?
Working hard and dealing with the 'stuff' that goes on every day in our lives is tough, but imagine that you're a disabled veteran back from the war who now faces incredible difficulties doing just about everything we all take for granted. Everything for them is tougher every day than it was before.
We love how our dogs makes us feel - so try to imagine how our veterans in need feel when they receive a well-trained furry best friend at no cost that not only makes them smile, but that also helps them with those difficulties to put some self-sufficiency and control back in their lives and reduces their stress just by being there for them all day, every day?
Our Disabled Veterans Need Our Help
Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) is a non-profit organization that spends 2 years training these dogs, and there's no way an individual with special needs can possibly start with a puppy and teach them to master these special skills. So without non-profits like CCI, and without support from you and me, there is no furry friend to help our veterans with basic tasks to improve their lives.
The CCI auction is this Saturday at the NADA Convention in San Francisco, so please help me raise $250,000 by January 26th, so we can help CCI provide 5 service dogs for 5 wounded veterans in need. Yes, it's extremely expensive to breed, train and provide these dogs, and that's why I'm asking you to get involved.
I've been a supporter of CCI's Veterans Initiative since 2013, when I became involved with CCI that year at the convention. The National Automobile Dealers Association's (NADA) Charitable Foundation along with ADESA auction's generous donation of motorcycles, off road vehicles and golf carts, have held auctions at the annual convention each year since 2012, to help CCI provide this incredible service to our veterans free of charge.
Coming from an extended family of veterans, and as a Vietnam veteran myself, plus being a dog lover since I was born, I instantly connected with CCI and its mission to help our wounded military veterans at the first auction I attended.
CCI provides highly trained assistance dogs and ongoing support to those who have received a dog - FREE of charge. They don't just train these dogs, they breed all of these dogs, they have volunteers who work with the dogs initially for about a year, and then the CCI staff spends up to another year to teach the dogs to help those who need them the most. And over the last 5 years I've seen how this partnership of dogs and veterans in need, literally changes lives overnight.
The challenge is the time and money it takes to provide these incredible service animals to our vets.
We're all aware of the thousands of wounded veterans in our country, but most of us don't see and don't understand the different and difficult challenges they face just to get through the day. That's why CCI is so important - they provide these dogs with the specific skills to fit each veteran's needs. They help our veterans in everything from daily tasks such as picking up dropped items, pulling their partner's wheelchair, opening doors, pushing buttons in elevators, and so much more to give our veterans a huge part of their lives back.
PTSD ... CCI has also launched the only V.A. approved Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) program in the nation. It's a pilot program to help veterans returning home with dogs who are specifically trained to help relieve their stresses with specific skills from nightmare interruption before it takes its toll, to turning on lights before entering a dark room, to even positioning themselves between their handlers and other people in crowded public situations, and so much more.
The cost to train an assistance dog is around $50,000 per dog - and our goal is to help raise $250,000 by January 26th so we can present these additional funds at the auction to help 5 more military veterans get part of their lives back - and give them back some of the most basic things we all take for granted.
If you're in the car business or just looking for a great cause to donate to - CCI is a tough one to beat so please help me make this auction one for the record books.
I've opened this GoFundMe page for CCI and our veterans, and I've kicked it off with my own personal donation of $25,000. That leaves another $225,000 ... We need either a few more $25,000 donations, or $1,000 donations, or $100 donations, or just a heck of a lot of people putting in any amount they can afford to help our wounded veterans.
Thank you in advance for your support and your donation.
Have a great 2019!
Joe Verde Sales & Management Training, Inc.
Organizer
Joe Verde
Organizer
San Juan Capistrano, CA
Canine Companions for Independence
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically 100% tax deductible in the US.
