Liftforthe22.org Website Review

Lift For The 22 is an organization designed to provide free one year gym memberships to the veteran community in order to reduce veteran suicide. By partnering with fitness facilities across the country who donate gym memberships to Lift For The 22, our program can redistribute thousands of gym memberships to the veteran community every year. More gyms = more memberships available. Lift For The 22 aims to provide fitness as a new transitional tool for the veteran community. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson We place veterans from any era into one of our partnered gyms with a free gym membership. Our goal is to provide fitness as a service for veterans upon transition from military life. We believe that providing a free gym membership allows the veteran to have an outlet during one of the most stressful times of a service members life- Transition. Long term, Lift For The 22 aims to form fitness support networks in gyms across the nation, where veterans can workout and network with Keep pressing forward towards new goals, achieving in the gym results in achieving in your life. Our program began as, and maintained a core mission, of veteran suicide awareness and prevention. This will never change. We are currently undergoiing some exciting changes to our mission, and are taking a strategic pause to better serve the veterans that are in the program nationwide. Don't worry, we are not going anywhere! While we are not currently taking new applications, we still plan to process all the curret applications that are queued prior to the end If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. -John Quincy Adams Lift for the 22 gives me and my fellow brothers and sisters connection, the type of connection that we lose when we integrate back Lift for the 22 reminded me that I am not alone. It gave me a place to feel comfortable knowing that there are other like minded veterans out