Lilly Endowment 向退伍军人住宅机构 Homes For Our Troops 拨款1000万美元
Lilly Endowment Inc. 于10月20日在马萨诸塞州 Taunton 宣布，向退伍军人住宅机构 Homes For Our Troops（HFOT）提供一笔1,000万美元的能力建设拨款，支持该机构为全美「9·11」事件后重伤退伍军人建造无障碍定制住宅的工作。
根据经 GlobeNewswire 发布的公告，这笔资金将用于加强 HFOT 的技术与运营基础设施，并扩大其筹款与传播能力，帮助机构实现可持续增长。HFOT 是 Lilly Endowment 本轮向全美多家军人及退伍军人服务机构提供能力建设拨款的受助机构之一。
HFOT 总裁兼首席执行官 Tom Landwermeyer（退役陆军准将）表示：「我们对 Lilly Endowment 这笔非同寻常的投入深表感激。这项投资将帮助 HFOT 在已建立的坚实基础上继续前进，为未来做好准备，继续为全国退伍军人及其家庭建造住宅、重建生活。」Lilly Endowment 社区发展副总裁 Ronni Kloth 表示，军人、退伍军人及其家庭在服役和转入平民生活的过程中，常面临住房、育儿、粮食保障、身心健康与就业等挑战，基金会乐于支持为他们提供关键帮助的机构。
HFOT 成立于2004年，是一家由公众募资支持的 501(c)(3) 非营利机构，为多肢截肢、部分或完全瘫痪、失明、重度烧伤或重度创伤性脑损伤的退伍军人建造并捐赠定制住宅；自成立以来，其支出中近90%用于退伍军人项目服务。住宅建在退伍军人自选的居住地，交房后机构仍继续为退伍军人提供支持。Lilly Endowment 是1937年由 J.K. Lilly Sr. 与其子以礼来公司股票创立的私人基金会，总部位于 Indianapolis，与礼来公司相互独立，主要支持社区发展、教育与宗教事业。
Lilly Endowment Awards $10 Million Grant to Homes For Our Troops
Lilly Endowment Inc. announced on October 20 in Taunton, Massachusetts, a $10 million capacity-building grant to Homes For Our Troops (HFOT), supporting the organization's work building specially adapted custom homes for severely injured post-9/11 veterans across the United States.
According to the announcement released via GlobeNewswire, the grant will strengthen HFOT's technology and operational infrastructure and expand its fundraising and storytelling capabilities, positioning the organization for sustainable growth. HFOT is one of several military- and veteran-serving organizations receiving capacity-building grants from Lilly Endowment in this round.
"We are deeply grateful to Lilly Endowment for this extraordinary investment in Homes For Our Troops," said HFOT President and CEO Tom Landwermeyer, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general. "This investment will help HFOT build on the strong foundation we have established and prepare for the future as we continue Building Homes and Rebuilding Lives for Veterans and their families nationwide." Ronni Kloth, Lilly Endowment's vice president for community development, said service members, veterans and their families often face challenges involving housing, childcare, food insecurity, health and employment, and that the foundation is pleased to support organizations providing crucial help.
Founded in 2004, HFOT is a publicly funded 501(c)(3) nonprofit that builds and donates specially adapted custom homes to veterans with injuries including multiple limb amputations, partial or full paralysis, blindness, severe burns and severe traumatic brain injury; since its inception, nearly 90 cents of every dollar spent has gone to its program services for veterans. Homes are built where the veteran chooses to live, and HFOT continues its relationship with veterans after home delivery. Lilly Endowment is a private foundation created in 1937 by J.K. Lilly Sr. and his sons through gifts of Eli Lilly and Company stock; based in Indianapolis, it is a separate entity from the company and supports community development, education and religion.
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图片来源：图：志愿者为退伍军人住宅竖立墙架（资料图）。美国农业部 USDA 发布，公共领域。Photo: Volunteers raising a wall frame at a home build (file photo). U.S. Department of Agriculture, public domain.
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