Special Forces Charitable Trust

View this email in your browser A Note From Our Executive Director It has been a most incredible Spring season here at the Special Forces Charitable Trust. We've had incredible success with our hosted fundraising events all across the country and are immensely grateful for your continued support and advocacy of our cause! Thank you for helping us to make a difference in the lives of our Special Forces Families.  We have a fun-filled event calendar with our 10th anniversary of The Great Americans Shoot happening this October--we are looking forward to seeing you all there.  - Jodi Burns    The SFCT Crew at Cocktails With Commandos - San Antonio. THANK YOU to The Clifton Family for inviting us to San Antonio! We are excited to host more events with our amazing contributors this year! See below for upcoming events and contact us if you would like to host an event in your area!  Upcoming Fundraising Events Come out and see us in a city near you! We will be in:  June 23 Denim & Diamonds in Spring Lake, North Carolina July 28-29 Bourbon Trail Shoot-Out in Louisville, Kentucky August 18 Hope & Purpose Ball in Tampa, Florida August 31 in Cocktails With Commandos in Atlanta, Georgia Let's get some money raised to support the Special Forces Community! We can't wait to see you there! Join us in Tampa, FL for our first ever Hope & Purpose Ball: Behind the Mask, a gala event to benefit our Beyond the Battlefield program that provides mental health counseling services and treatments for our Special Forces soldiers and their families. The gala is held on Friday, August 18 and we would love to see you there! Please let us know if you would like to partner with us for this incredibly impactful night! Find more info and events here! Programs: What We've Been Up To! Our Beyond the Battlefield program continues to be a huge success! We launched this program in May of 2022 and have supported over 70 patients receive over 500 hours of anonymous mental health counseling to date! From our last newsletter sent in March until now, through our Sponsored Treatments and Services we have also fully funded three Green Beret soldiers to get the help they need. We could not have done this without your unfailing help and contributions to this life-changing program.  To give you an idea of how important this program is for the community, we wanted to share just a highlight of one of our anonymous patients' feedback: "For the first time in my life I was been able to control my mind and the effects it has on my body which I have not been able to control. I have lost every relationship due to this and finally with this therapy I can stop what happens by practicing the steps, methods that I have learned in therapy. It has saved me and changed my life. My relationships with my children are so much better. I am so thankful for the opportunity to receive treatment from this provider and being sponsored by your organization. Thank you . So many Green Berets need help, knowing this is a viable option to heal is tremendous." From January 2023 until this past week, we have lost more than six soldiers (Special Forces active-duty and veterans) to death by suicide.  We need your help to keep this program going!  Donate Here to Cover Sessions for a Soldier  Sponsor Our Hope & Purpose Gala 5SFG Mix & Mingle What a fantastic evening of mixing and mingling with all of the 5SFG ladies! Thank you for joining us and for your amazing feedback on how to continue to serve your community best! The SFCT is always proud to provide Family programs but we also enjoy activities that support the bonds between special ladies such as yourselves!! We cannot wait to see you again in August for Mettle & Moxie!! We are extremely excited to announce the 2023-2024 recipients of our Special Forces Teen’s College and Trade School Scholarships!  These scholarships are awarded annually and limited to undergraduate and trade school studies that result in a degree or vocational certification from an accredited graduate school, university, college, community college, or vocational/trade/technical institution.   CONGRATULATIONS to each of you! We are honored to be a part of your educational success!!  Visit SFCT's Swag Shop Start Shopping! Snack With Purpose We're so thankful to Anthem Snacks for their $5,000 donation! Special Forces owned, Made in the USA Support Anthem Snacks Here Copyright © 2022 Special Forces Charitable Trust. All rights reserved.You are receiving the email because you opted in via our website.  Our mailing address is: Special Forces Charitable Trust PO Box 53 Southern Pines, North Carolina 28388