Greetings, It’s been one week since Spirit of America launched our Afghanistan Emergency Fund. Our entire team is focused on helping Afghans being evacuated by the United States. This includes frontline interpreters and other vulnerable groups, as well as their...
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A promise made and kept
August 4, 2020 – a date that is forever seared in the hearts of many Lebanese. Given all that's happened to our world since—pandemic lockdowns, social upheavals, and contentious elections—it's easy, somewhat understandable, to forget what happened back then, or to...
American generosity at work in Beirut
Greetings, On August 27, roughly three weeks after the massive explosion that rocked Beirut — killing over 200, displacing hundreds of thousands, and causing billions in damage — I landed in Lebanon. I had one goal: find the right group of people to team up with to...
Support America’s response to Lebanon’s devastating explosion
In an era of ubiquitous communications, social media, and by-the-minute news cycle, it was not long after the blast that my phone went off, streams of texts cascading across my screen. Something was off. “Zack, did you hear about the explosion in Beirut?” a friend...
A favorite partner of our Special Forces and other military operators
Greetings, I thought you’d be interested in “Private Donations and National Defense” featuring Spirit of America. The author, Karl Zinsmeister, calls Spirit of America “an unusual and highly effective charity [that] has become a favorite partner of our Special Forces...
With the anti-ISIS fight far from over, Spirit of America continues supporting the Peshmerga in Iraq
Though territorial ISIS, also known as the Islamic State, has been vanquished, the terrorist organization still maintains a significant number of fighters and supporters and has—predictably—reconstituted itself as an insurgency group capable of carrying out...
US Marines and Spirit of America in Afghanistan, 2019
Greetings, As a multiple-tour Iraq War veteran, I distinctly remember the hardships civilians caught in a conflict endure. In Helmand province, Afghanistan, Afghan security forces and US special operations forces are engaged in some of the toughest battles in recent...
Supporting our Kurdish partners: Spirit of America is on the ground
Greetings, Kurdish forces have been essential partners of the United States in the campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Spirit of America is proud to have worked with US troops to support them. There is no doubt there are American servicemembers alive today...
Spirit of America results alongside US soldiers in Cameroon
Greetings, Last month, US soldiers deployed to Cameroon and Spirit of America finished building a primary school in a rural northern Cameroon village. The soldiers identified to Spirit of America the need to rebuild a dilapidated primary school located within a mile...