Donating money, real estate and goods always helps,
but raising awareness is essential.
As we continue serving veterans with care, compassion, and comfort, the United Relief Foundation encourages you to make one act of kindness that helps bring awareness to the needs of veterans. The more we remember and honor our veterans, the more help follows to meet their needs.
Post: Become one of United Relief Foundation’s 9K Facebook followers—or follow another veteran support organization—and share (or create) posts that raise awareness.
Promote: Inform others about the efforts of veteran support organizations and encourage them to do the same.
Partner: Support a veteran organization by collaborating to bring attention to their events, drives, or initiatives.
Single Act of Kindness Focus
In addition to remembering, honoring, and helping all veterans,
the United Relief Foundation’s Single Act of Kindness efforts will place particular focus on the most vulnerable veterans and special attention to women who are the fastest‑growing group in the veteran population.
The Need for every Single Act of Kindness!
Please note at the time of this posting, January 2, 2026, there was not data available for 2025.
A 2024 update reports that approximately 200,000 service members are discharged from the U.S. military each year. This number includes all branches and reflects the steady annual flow of people transitioning from active duty to civilian life.
In 2024, hundreds of thousands of veterans across multiple age groups lived below the poverty line, including more than 220,000 veterans aged 35–54 and over 588,000 veterans aged 65 and older. These numbers underscore the ongoing financial hardships many veterans face, especially older veterans.
Based on the DAV 2024 Women Veterans Issue Brief and VA data women veterans face unique and often more severe vulnerabilities compared to male veterans. Women veterans are more likely to face single parenthood, lower household income, employment gaps due to caregiving and difficulty accessing benefits they earned.
How your Single Act of Kindness makes a difference…
The lives of the men and women who served in the United States Armed Forces that the United Relief Foundation touches in their time of need will benefit from your single act of kindness by helping to lift them from despair, renew their spirits, let them know they have not been forgotten, and assist them on a path to becoming self-reliant and contributing members of their communities.
Good Deed monetary donations in any amount will help make a difference in the lives of the veterans in need.
A monetary donation of $250.00 or more receives a framed United in Service Donor Recognition Certificate and a contribution exceeding $2,500.00 receive special public recognition as a United in Service Patron.
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Data Sources: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Census Bureau Veteran Data, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics, Veteran Benefits Administration FY 2022 Annual Benefits Report, DOL and HHS Poverty Guidelines, 2023 VA Veteran Homeless Statistics.