Charitable Work

Women in Homeland Security supports chairtable organizations that seek to reduce, eradicate, or lessen the threat of future terrorism and/or support our domestic forces fighting against terrorism.  For 2010-2011, WHS is supporting one domestic and one international charity for their work to reduce this threat.


Domestic Charity

No Greater Sacrifice Foundation www.nogreatersacrific.org

 NGS/WHS Partnership Host Committee: 

No Greater Sacrifice ("NGS") serves to bridge the educational development for the families of our nation's permanently wounded heroes. The men and women of the United States Armed Forces risk their lives every day for our country and our way of life. There is no greater sacrifice: to serve, to work, to fight - and if need be - to lay down one's life for the cause of freedom. In making this sacrifice, every Soldier, Sailor, Airman, and Marine, is forced to leave his or her loved ones back home.

For those who have made this sacrifice for their country, our job is to help finish their work by raising funds to pay for post secondary education for their children.  NGS was a start-up two years ago, but since has committed full funding for college educations to over a dozen fallen and wounded soldier families.  Its goal over the next few years is to greatly expand its reach so that those who serve our country and suffer permanent injuries can rest assured that their children receive the education they deserve. 

Read press release on partnership.  Click here for an invitation to the May 6th kickoff event.

International Charity

The Central Asia Institute  www.ikat.org
 

WHS Host Committee Chaired by Julie Hassett, Partner, Hassett & Willis

Central Asia Institute is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission to promote and support community-based education, especially for girls, in remote regions of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan.  Central Asia Institute community projects are in remote mountain villages of northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and the steppes of Mongolia. The terrain varies from the highest consolidation of high peaks in the world to miles of high desert plateau. Most of our community-based projects are in the Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan, and the Pamir and Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. Very few organizations serve the remote areas where we work.

To sign up for either of these host Committees contact womeninhs@yahoo.com

Other Charitable Work

WHS supports the homeland security community through numerous avenues, particularly in support of the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Defense Intelligence Agency/U.S. Department of Defense, Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services among others.

WHS raises funds in support of USCG Family

In June, WHS raised funds for a USCG family that lost their 11 year old son while on vacation here in the nation's capital.  Below is a thank you from Admiral Mary Landry.