SMGA New England — Massachusetts

Fort Wayne 501(c)(3) founded by service-connected disabled veterans that works to prevent veteran suicide by placing certified service dogs at no cost and operating the Forward Operating Base (F.O.B.), a veteran-led, substance-free peer recovery and community center with a gym, boxing area, peer support, and recovery programming. It also runs a Lifeline Program providing free mobile devices to rural and underserved veterans, and partners with the Governor's Challenge, IDVA, the VA, and local organizations under a "no wrong door" approach.

Category: Mental Health

Eligibility: Veterans; service dogs for service-connected disabled veterans; the F.O.B. also serves families and community partners; Lifeline Program for veterans, particularly those in rural or underserved areas.

Regional chapter of the Salute Military Golf Association serving all six New England states, providing post-9/11 combat-wounded veterans free golf clinics, group lessons, custom-fitted clubs, and recurring outings.

Category: Sports & Fitness

Eligibility: Post-9/11 combat-wounded veterans only for full Member benefits, with documentation required; a separate, narrower Participant tier exists for service-connected but non-combat injuries.

Nonprofit based in Xenia, Ohio that breeds, raises, trains, and places task-trained service dogs with children and veterans with disabilities. Founded in 1998, it places dogs trained for mobility, hearing, seizure response, and behavior disruption, focusing veteran placements on recent-combat veterans whose primary disability is a mobility or hearing impairment resulting from a combat injury. Veteran recipients receive their service dog at no cost.

Category: Equipment & Grants

Eligibility: Focuses veteran placements on recent-combat veterans whose primary disability is a mobility or hearing impairment from combat injury; also places dogs with children with disabilities and some adults

Program of the Iowa Sports Foundation providing adaptive and recreational sports — wheelchair basketball, sled hockey, cycling, air rifle — statewide for people with physical or visual disabilities, including a National Veteran Airgun Program specifically for veterans.

Category: Sports & Fitness

Eligibility: Individuals with physical or visual disabilities, open to all skill levels; the Airgun program serves veterans and non-veterans with disabilities.