We are very grateful to the Pepsi Corporation for their generous Pepsi Refresh Campaign and we send many thanks to all our supporters who voted for us during March to ensure we won the $50,000 Pepsi Grant.
Check out this fun video that Pepsi posted about our project. For those of you who volunteer with us at the Armory, you will recognize some familiar faces!
Operation Gratitude annually sends 100,000 care packages filled with snacks, toiletries, entertainment items and personal letters of appreciation addressed to individually named U.S. Service Members deployed in harm's way, to their Children left behind, and to Veterans, Wounded Warriors and First responders. Our mission is to lift morale, bring a smile to a service member's face and express to our our Military and their families the appreciation and support of the American people. Operation Gratitude receives the names of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines from commanders in the field who see the positive impact of care packages on their troops' morale. Each package contains donated product valued at $75-100 and costs the organization $15 to assemble and ship. For safety and security, assembling of packages occurs at the Army National Guard armory in Van Nuys, California. Since its inception in 2003, Operation Gratitude has shipped more than 900,000 packages to American Military and their families.
Operation Gratitude
Thank you Pepsi and Operation Gratitude for your combined thoughts and efforts coming together helping our United States Military.