TMF Community Stories

Volunteer This Earth Month: Veteran-Led Projects for Sustainability and Community Impact

Every April, communities across the country pause to reflect on our relationship with the environment and explore ways to take meaningful action. Earth Month is a time to roll up our sleeves and make a tangible difference in the places we call home. At Travis Manion Foundation (TMF), we believe service is the most powerful expression of that commitment.

TMF Community Stories

From Loss to Leadership: How Deanna Phillips Inspires Community

Gold Star spouse Deanna Phillips became a widow on March 5, 2010, when her beloved husband, Michael Phillips, a US Air Force veteran, lost his battle with service-connected cancer. The grief that followed was nearly paralyzing. She feared she’d always be alone.

TMF Partners

How Travis Manion Foundation and Wounded Warrior Project Support Veterans Beyond Transition

As a child, David Veros watched his father put on a Marine Corps uniform every day. “He had such a sense of pride, and a sense of service,” David says. “He understood that our lives have a bigger purpose. I wanted to be just like him. That’s what led me to the military.”

TMF Community Stories

How Veteran Mentors Are Shaping the Next Generation Through Character Does Matter Program

Kira Sonnee spent most of her childhood feeling unworthy of anything good. Her mom was a business owner and often unavailable; her dad was unreliable and difficult to deal with. Kira, an only child, felt alone and misunderstood. “I didn’t feel like I truly belonged anywhere,” she says. By the time she started 8th grade, anxiety, depression, and the death of her beloved dog made Kira feel like she didn’t want to be alive anymore.

TMF Partners

Music, Service, and Impact: Stand Together and Old Dominion Unite Fans for TMF Benefit Concert

Stand Together Foundation’s Austin benefit concert for Travis Manion Foundation united music and service, raising support for veterans and honoring 9/11 heroes.

Press Room

TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION & THE MISSION CONTINUES JOIN FORCES TO SERVE MORE VETERANS AND COMMUNITIES

In a strategic step forward for the veteran community, Travis Manion Foundation (TMF) and The Mission Continues (TMC) announced they are joining forces - bringing together two leading veteran service organizations with the shared mission of empowering veterans to lead, serve, and strengthen communities nationwide.

TMF Community Stories 26-Jul-2017

Robert Bock

Robert Bock, San Diego, CA

TMF Community Stories 23-Apr-2017

Beau Higgins

What Legacy Means to Me: “If people remember me as someone that put others first and was a Man for Others…that would be the legacy I would like to have and that I strive to obtain.”

TMF Community Stories 19-Apr-2017

Heather Sarver

My Role Model: Brendan Looney, US Navy SEAL, KIA September 21st, 2010

TMF Community Stories 17-Apr-2017

Ira Leslie

Growing up, I thought my Dad was the meanest person ever. It felt like I spent a lot of my time being punished for something every day. As I got older and matured, I began to understand that he wasn’t punishing me.

TMF Community Stories 14-Apr-2017

Nisha Sharma

What Legacy Means to Me: “This is the legacy I want to leave behind: As long as you are committed, dedicated, and truthful towards your goals, you will achieve your dreams.”

TMF Community Stories 10-Apr-2017

Brad Osmun

My mom was an elementary school teacher and military spouse for 26 years in the Air Force. She always put her family and her students before herself.

TMF Community Stories 05-Apr-2017

Charlene Westbrook

My Story_ On a cool, colorful evening during a brisk and breezy fall night in 2009, I became a Gold Star Spouse. In my arms was my husband, my soulmate, my childhood sweetheart and my military man.

TMF Community Stories 03-Apr-2017

Bob Craven

My role model is Capt. Scott E. Craven, my son (USAFA ’02, Embry-Riddle Univ ’06). As much as I admired and respected Scott, I don’t think I really understood his life until after his passing in 2006.