Vote for the 2025 Community Impact Award
Your Vote Helps Decide Who Receives a Grant Worth $10,000 from the Homes for Heroes Foundation in 2025!
The Homes for Heroes Foundation started small in 2009, giving anywhere from $100-$500 to individual heroes who needed help with housing expenses like rent or utilities.
Since then, we have come a long way, transitioning from helping individual heroes to established nonprofit organizations located across the country. These existing nonprofits had already identified needs in their communities, and knew how to best put our grants to use to help heroes where and how they needed it the most.
Our Community Impact Award, now in its 4th year, is a chance to shine a light on the hard work local nonprofits put day in and day out in their community helping Heroes in need in the areas of Housing Crisis, Disaster Relief, and Health and Family.
Here’s how you can vote:
- CONSIDER: From the 3 nonprofits shown below, identify which organization you believe should receive the 2025 Community Impact Aware and $10,000 grant from the Homes for Heroes Foundation
- CHOOSE: Select the name of your preferred nonprofit
- SUBMIT: Click the “Submit” button
The nonprofit that receives the most votes from the community by Friday, November 14th at 11:59 PM CST will be the winner of the Community Impact Award and receive a $10,000 grant.
Make sure to share this page after you cast your vote and help spread the word!
The Community Impact Award winner will be announced on the Homes for Heroes Facebook page on Giving Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025.
All of the local nonprofits below provide support and benefits to military and veteran heroes and their families when in dire need of housing or emergency financial support.
Cast Your Vote Here
Building a Safer Evansville (BASE)
Nominated by Homes for Heroes Real Estate Specialist Patrick Reese
Building A Safer Evansville (BASE) exists to serve and support the heroes in our community—our police, fire, EMS, veterans, dispatchers, teachers, and military families, who sacrifice daily to keep others safe. Our mission includes stepping in to provide emergency financial assistance and support for housing stability during these times. Whether it is assisting a first responder injured in the line of duty, helping a veteran’s family bridge a crisis, or supporting a teacher or dispatcher struggling after a traumatic event, BASE directs nearly every dollar raised back into helping those who serve.
Heroes Helping Heroes
Nominated by Homes for Heroes Real Estate Specialist Richard Tokarz
At Heroes Helping Heroes, our mission is to provide vital support to those who serve our communities, including first responders, military personnel, healthcare workers, teachers, and law enforcement officers. Our initiative aims to prevent homelessness and housing insecurity by providing timely aid for rent, mortgage payments, utility bills, and other housing-related expenses during times of crisis. By alleviating these immediate financial burdens, we help ensure that our heroes can maintain safe and stable living conditions, allowing them to focus on their crucial roles without the added stress of housing instability.
Michigan Women Veterans Empowerment
Nominated by Homes for Heroes Mortgage Specialist Jamie Nummer
MIWVE mission is to empower all military veterans, service members, their families and the youth in the 8 dimensions of wellness through advocacy, training, education, events, conferences and connecting them to resources within their community. We provide education and hands on guidance in helping veterans receive the care and need after returning home. We are strong advocates and provide platforms to support all veterans especially women veterans. We have moved them, stored items, provided transportation, given clothes, food and provided temporary shelter as well.