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Your contribution of $1,000 a year through Friends of HVAF can furnish an apartment for a veteran for one year. When you become a Friend of HVAF, you are more than a donor. You are a partner. A partner in our shared work to return honorable U.S. military veterans to self-sufficiency after living through homelessness, substance abuse and other life challenges.

HVAF created the Friends of HVAF program to steward special partnerships with people and organizations who want a unique opportunity to serve the brave men and women who have served all of us.

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Corporate Annual Levels

Benefits: Newsletter feature story, highlighted in Annual Meeting, leading role for spokesperson at HVAF events or media interviews, and your name or company listed as a sponsor on the HVAF website on the Friends of HVAF page.

$20,000

Provides a veteran with housing, basic needs, transportation, case management, food and clothing and employment assistance for one year

$10,000

Provides a veteran with housing, basic needs, case management for one year

$5,000

Provides a veteran with housing and basic needs for one year

Individual Annual Levels

$1,000

Furnishes apartment for a veteran for one year

Benefits: Newsletter feature story, highlighted in Annual Meeting. Your name or company listed as a sponsor on the HVAF website on the Friends of HVAF page

$250

Clothing for a veteran for one year

Benefits: You will be highlighted in HVAF’s Annual Meeting. Your name or company listed as a sponsor on the HVAF website on the Friends of HVAF page

$100

One month of nutritious meals for a veteran

Benefit: Your name or company listed as a sponsor on the HVAF website on the Friends of HVAF page

$25

Essential hygiene items for a veteran for one month

Benefit: Your name or company listed as a sponsor on the HVAF website on the Friends of HVAF page

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NFL star motivates homeless veterans

It’s not every day that you have a former first round draft pick and three-time NFL Pro-Bowler greet veterans at HVAF of Indiana. On Wednesday, Tarik Glenn, offensive tackle who played for the Indianapolis Colts, shared his on and off-the-field life lessons to more than two dozen veterans at HVAF. He drew several similarities between athletes and soldiers in their drive to be goal-oriented, but cautioned that this can sometimes cause isolation.

Tarik encouraged veterans to live a life of purpose by engaging in activities that promote a healthy lifestyle. Tarik said he had to change his own diet to a healthier one following his 2008 retirement from the Indianapolis Colts. Secondly, Tarik told the veterans to fight for relationships in your life and understand how your contribution can help others. The former Colts player said his wife is his number one teammate and echoed that relationships re crucial to make you a better person and sharpen you. Lastly, Tarik spoke of the importance to fight to live. He recalled a time when his pastor told him that while it’s important to have goals, you must live for the day and make each day count. Tarik knew he wanted to be a great offensive lineman, but in doing so he'd have to do his best that day at practice.

Tarik uses these life lessons in shaping his nonprofit, D.R.E.A.M. Alive Inc., an after-school mentoring program that supports at-risk schools and families by engaging 7th-12th graders in community service-learning opportunities. Tarik is also a full-time dad of four.