Resource Monday: The Special Forces Foundation

   This episode highlights the impactful work of the Special Forces Foundation, focusing on their programs supporting Green Berets and their families, and how listeners can contribute to their mission, especially through the Fighting Season fundraiser and recurring donations.

Chapters

00:00  Introduction to the Special Forces Foundation

01:59  Programs and Support Offered by SFF

03:08  Project REACH: Tackling Veteran Suicide

04:58  Fighting Season Fundraiser and Community Engagement

07:13  Call to Action: Support and Get Involved

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Project REACH — Five Moves. One Standard. No One Left Behind.

Project REACH is the Foundation's direct response to the veteran suicide epidemic. The call to action is simple: reach out to five friends today, and every day after.

R  RECOGNIZE — when something is off.

E  ENGAGE — instead of assuming they're fine.

A  ACT — before silence becomes crisis.

C  CONNECT — them to people and support.

H  HOLD — the line until they're back on their feet.

You can't expect what you don't inspect. Reach out to five friends today.

Security Halt Monthly Giveaway

Every monthly recurring donor, at any tier, who signs up between today and October will be entered into the Security Halt monthly giveaway. Recurring donors stay in the pool the entire drive — the longer you give, the more entries you accumulate.

Prize Pool

•      Stroup Knives

•      Nomadic Research jackets

•      Eberlestock bags

•      Rogue Fitness equipment

•      Concept2 rower

•      Whoop straps

How to Enter (read carefully — this is required)

1.     Go to https://givebutter.com/donatetoSFF

2.     Select Monthly (not one-time)

3.     Choose your tier (any level qualifies, including the lowest)

4.     In the note / comment field on the donation form, type: Security Halt Gang

5.     Submit your donation

Transcript

Why The SFF Matters

SPEAKER_00 0:04

Welcome back to Security Hub Podcast. As always, I'm your host, Denny Caballero. It's Resource Monday, and this one's personal, folks. Today we're putting the spotlight on the Special Forces Foundation, and I'll tell you up front, the SFF is an organization I'm proud to serve. They really do it right. The mission is real, the money moves, and the regiment is better because they exist. Their tagline says it's cleaner than I can. Extraordinary sacrifice deserves extraordinary care. That's not a marketing line, that's a standard. Special Forces Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit headquartered in Colorado. Their job is taking care of the Green Beret community. Active duty, retired, wounded, gold star families, surviving children, the whole regiment is treated as one family. Their programs are built around the POTA framework, preservation of the force and family, if you haven't served and have heard of that before. But if you have, you know exactly what that means. You can't separate the operator from the people he comes home to. The SFF gets that and they fund it accordingly. And the books are clean. Ninety-two cents of every dollar lands directly within the community. They carry guide stars, platinum level transparency seal. You give, the money moves, no fog, no waste. The foundation organizes the work across five lanes community health, adaptability, support, and education. Let me walk you through what it looks like in the real world. Health is brain, body, and emotional. Transformative care campaign gets operators into evidence-based treatment for TBI, PTSD, and the full gamut of operational injuries we accumulate over a career. No pamphlets, no platitudes, just actual care with the right specialists in real time. Support. This quick reaction force, the QRF. When something goes wrong at 1 or 2 AM, that's where the foundation answers. Teammating crisis, a family in trouble, funeral that needs handled. They move. That's the standard, community. This is where you see the foundation in public. The Memorial Day run in March in Colorado Springs, the annual gala, special operations cup tournaments all around the country, clays for cause, polo, pistol matches, you name it. It's a reason to show up, shake hands, break bread with brothers, and remember the ones we've lost. Adaptability. This is where the foundation focuses on career transition, education support, and care after a uniform comes off. Because the day you take off the beret for the last time isn't a day the regiment forgets about you. Education. This is where the foundation focuses on family readiness and resilience tools for operators, spouses, and kids. Then there's a gold star in surviving family project, which is its own pillar. The obligation to the families after we lose brothers doesn't go away. The foundation holds on to that. Birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, they show up. But there's more. New additions to 33 Alpha Program, the Junior Ambassador Program for Kids in the Regiment, and the Awareness and Legacy Initiative. Bottom line, this is a full spectrum support organization. I want to take a moment to acknowledge a new initiative by the Special Forces Foundation that I think is absolutely critical helping end veteran suicide. It's called Project Reach. Project Reach is a foundation tackling the veteran suicide epidemic head on. Because the truth of the matter is, we're losing more brothers now that the war is over than we did during the conflicts. We're losing them here at home, quietly. Because we're not connected. We're not staying in touch. So here's the ask. And it's not subtle. We're asking you to take ownership. Get involved and start checking in on each other. I want every one of you listening to reach out to five friends today. Five guys you came up with. Five brothers you served on on the same team or company. Five battle buddies. From the team room, from your days in the regular army. The days of being in an infantry bays waiting for the word. Make it a daily thing. Five names every day. Ask the hard questions. Share a laugh. Tell the old stories. Keep each other's spirits up. You don't need a script. You need a phone and the will to use it. Here's what Reach actually stands for. Five moves, one standard, and no one gets left behind. Recognize when something's off. Engage instead of assuming they're fine. Act before silence becomes a crisis. Connect. Connect them to the people and support. Hold. Hold the line until they're back on their feet. That's the model, and here's the line I want you to write down. You can't expect what you don't inspect. Reach out to five friends today. Let's talk about this summer's donation drive. The Foundation Summer Fundraiser is called Fighting Season. The name isn't accidental. For the guys who deployed to Afghanistan, you know exactly what fighting season means. Every spring the snow melts in the mountains and the passes open back up. Movement returns, and the Taliban kicks off the spring offensive. April through October, the tempo climbs. It's a cycle, it's predictable. And it's brutal. Foundation's fighting season runs the same window. From today through October. Because that surge is a domestic equivalent. Summer puts pressure on the regiment. Operational tempo, reintegration, transition season, kids out of school, the anniversaries of the ones we've lost. Demand for the foundation goes up. QRF calls go up, care requests go up. Fighting seasons how the SFF resources the response. And here's the part you need to hear. The SFF thrives on monthly recurring donors. That's the backbone. One time gifts are appreciated, but recurring support is what lets a foundation plan past the next emergency. It's the difference between reacting and standing ready. So that's a call. From today through October, sign up to be a monthly recurring donor. Even at the lowest tier, seven bucks a month is real. The foundation doesn't measure support by the size of the check. They measure it by who shows up. Now, because I want to put some skin in the game on my end, here's what I'm doing on Security Halt's side. Starting today through October, every single person who signs up as a monthly recurring donor to the Special Forces Foundation, even at the lowest tier, gets entered in Security Halt monthly giveaway. And I'm not raffling off mugs and stickers. I'm putting up gear that I actually use and trust. Now, I'm adding more to this as the months go by, but starting off right now, Stroop knives, nomadic research jackets, Everly stock bags, rogue fitness equipment, a concept two roar, and whoop straps are all on the docket. Real gear, real value, built for the kind of people who listen to the show. Now listen up, because this part is critical. If you don't follow this step, I can't track your sign up, which means I can't enter you to the giveaway. So don't skip it. Here's how you enter. Go to the donation page, select monthly, not one time, but monthly, pick your tier, whatever level works for you, even the lowest counts. Before you submit, find the add note slash add comment field on the donation page and type in security hall gang. Three words. Security haul gang. This is critical. It's the only way I can pull your name out of the end at the end of the month and confirm it's a security halt sign up. No note, no track, no track, no entry. So don't forget it. Every month through October, we pull a name. Recurring donors stay in the pool the whole drive. Longer you give, the more chances you get. You support the regiment, you enter the win, the foundation gets recurring revenue it actually needs. Everybody wins. Last thing. The demand is up. The need across the regiment is climbing, and the SFF never says no. They find a way, and that only works if we, the community, keep them in the fight. So this resource Monday, the ass is simple. One, reach out to five of your friends today. Run the reach model. You can't expect what you don't inspect. Two, sign up as a monthly recurring donor for fighting season, even at the lowest tier. And in the note or comments field, drop in Security Hall Gang so I can track you for the giveaway. No note, no entry. Don't skip that step. Supports a foundation that supports our nation's Green Berets and their families. That's a standard. That's it for today. As you guys know, I'll drop another episode tomorrow with a break on Wednesday and another episode on Thursday. Maybe you get another episode on Friday. Who knows? I have a lot on my deck with this show and supporting you. That's what keeps me in the fight. And that's who I love to serve. So thank y'all for tuning in. Let me know what you think about these three source Mondays if you enjoy them. And please consider giving today. Special Forces Foundation is really doing it right. And we need to rally around these nonprofits that are really taking the fight to ending veteran suicide and helping our brothers. All right, guys, that's it for today. See y'all next time. Till then, take care.