We Built the Veteran Resource Directory We Wish Had Existed
There’s a moment a lot of veterans know.
You get out. Or you hit a wall. Or something happens — a diagnosis, a crisis, a job loss, a relationship falling apart — and you realize you need help. So you go online and start searching.
And you find a list. A long, overwhelming list of organization names, phone numbers and acronyms, most of which you’ve never heard of, with no explanation of what any of them actually do or whether they apply to you. You click a few links. Some are dead. Some take you to a homepage that tells you the organization exists but not how to get help. An hour later you’re no better off than when you started.
That moment is what VeteransDirectory.org was built to fix.
A project born from service
VeteransDirectory.org is a project of Salute Veterans Inc., a veteran-founded 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to supporting veteran transition. Its mission is simple: help service members make the move to civilian life and find the resources they’ve earned while they still need them — not twenty years later.
Transitioning veterans are who the directory is built around, but every veteran, active-duty service member and military family is welcome to use it.
Programs, not just organizations
Most veteran directories list organizations. We’re building something different: a directory of programs.
Take Wounded Warrior Project. A veteran looking for work doesn’t need the organization’s homepage — they need Warriors to Work, its career program. A veteran struggling with PTSD needs the Warrior Care Network treatment program. Linking to the homepage leaves the veteran to dig. Linking to each program puts them one click from the help itself.
That’s the standard we’re working toward for every listing: a direct link to the specific program page, with a clear description of what it does and who it serves.
What you’ll find
Every listing is hand-vetted, and the directory is organized by the kind of help a veteran needs — benefits and VA services, crisis and emergency help, housing, mental health, employment and career, entrepreneurship, education and training, scholarships, financial support, legal aid, family and dependent support, community and more. Because needs overlap, a program shows up in every category where it belongs, however a veteran is searching.
A directory the community keeps current
Every directory goes stale when nobody has a reason to maintain it — and a veteran who follows a dead link often doesn’t try again.
So we ask the organizations listed here to claim their listings and keep them accurate. They know their programs better than anyone. In return, we build mission-related programs that help fund them. When an organization refers an employer to HireAVeteran.org, our veteran job board, we share the revenue from that employer’s paid job postings with them. It’s one veteran nonprofit supporting