LFWMH Teams with home depot
Last spring, our Foundation was approached by our local Home Depot sales team with an offer to do something for one of the Wounded Heroes in our area. The idea was to have any Hero in our area submit their request for an improvement project for their home. Our Foundation would then collect the submittals and submit them to Home Depot for selection. The Home Depot team would coordinate with local contractors to complete the project at no charge to the Hero’s family.
LFWMH team members screened the submissions and worked with the Home Depot team, led my Giles Sandvik to select the project. The lucky recipients were Harvey Harris and his wife LaDawn of Hinesville, GA. The project included refacing the cabinets with a new color, new doors, new drawer fronts, and new hardware. Also included were new countertops, and new appliances. To top off the project the Home Depot team refreshed the front yard with new shrubs and decorative rock!
The project was completed last month and the Harris family is ecstatic! The LFWMH would like to thank the entire Home Depot team – its local sales team that led the effort, their corporate leadership that approved the project, and all the Home Depot contractors who donated their time and materials to bring this project to completion.
Pictures of the transformation are posted below.
LFWMH Announces 2025 Event Schedule
WOUNDED HEROES GOLF CLASSIC
Again this year, the Lowcountry Foundation for Wounded Military Heroes will be hosting its premier fundraising event, the Wounded Heroes Golf Classic, at three (3) exceptional venues - on Monday, May 5th at Wexford Golf Club on Hilton Head Island and on Monday, May 19th at Hampton Hall Club in Bluffton and Oldfield Club in Okatie. The experience at each event will include the activities and events known to be unique to this event; the Wounded Heroes Golf Clinic for our Wounded Hero guests led by students of the Professional Golfers Career College in Bluffton, parachute and tandem jumps led by the Special Forces Association Parachute Team, and other opening ceremonies.
Each registered foursome will have the opportunity play with a Wounded Hero (subject to the number of Wounded Heroes attending). These are men and women who served in post 9/11 combat, who have received a Purple Heart or who suffer from traumatic brain injury, PTSD, or who have certain other qualifying afflictions.
Last year, LFWMH hosted 82 Wounded Heroes who pay nothing to attend these events. They participate as guests of the LFWMH.
After golf, all participants are treated to appetizers, the opportunity to bid on both live and silent auction items, as well as a great sit down dinner, and brief presentations from many of the charities we support.
APPRECIATION NIGHT
Again this year, the night before the Wounded Heroes Golf Classic, LFWMH will host its Appreciation Night on Sunday, May 18th at Hampton Hall Club. This is LFWMH's opportunity to thank its 200+ volunteers and its larger donors for all they do to make our events so successful. This event includes dinner and silent and live auctions. Additionally, most of the charities we support will be represented to showcase the tangible benefits of their efforts and your donations. You may hear from one of our $100,000 scholarship winners. You may observe the ceremonial key to a new home being presented. Or you may get to meet 1 or 2 of the dogs we have sponsored from previous years.
Sun City Softball Club Sells Hats at Veterans Day Softball Games
On Veterans Day, the Sun City Softball Club usually just sells hot dogs to raise money for their club. This year, they decided to raise additional funds for a deserving charity. To that end, they sold baseball caps, did their research on veterans' groups in the area, and selected LFWMH as the recipient of their $1060 check.
We thank them for selecting the LFWMH to receive this donation.
Young Professional Network of Realtors in the Hilton Head Area
On December 5, 2024, members of the Young Professional Network of Realtors in the Hilton Head Island area stopped by the LFWMH's December Board meeting to present us with a check for $610 raised from their 50-50 raffle.
We thank them for selecting the LFWMH to receive this donation.
2024 Birdies for the Brave Check Presentation
On August 1, 2024, members of the Lowcountry Foundation for Wounded Military Heroes were at TPC Sawgrass to present Birdies for the Brave with our 2024 donation of $300,000. This was the largest, single donation to B4B since its inception.
The LFWMH team was joined by representatives from B4B, many of the charities receiving a portion of this donation, and by several of the K9s for Warrior dogs that we've sponsored and are currently in training.
Operation Shower - A Great Day for "Hello Baby"!
LFWMH Hosts Operation Shower at the Heritage
As noted on their website, "Operation Shower’s mission is to host joyous, awesome baby showers for military families to ease the stresses of deployment and separation. Since its founding in 2007, Operation Shower has hosted baby showers for thousands of military families, thanks to the overwhelming support of individuals and groups across the country."
This year the LFWMH hosted the Operation Shower "Hello Baby" event as part of the RBC Heritage Tournament Activities. This was our fourth time sponsoring/co-sponsoring this event for military families. We are honored to share a thank you email from Operation Shower's Director of Program Outreach, Ginger Shockley:
"We did it! With much THANKS to you for all your wonderful help during the Lowcountry Foundation for Wounded Military Heroes baby shower. For some of you this was your first experience volunteering with us. We are so glad we got to meet you and look forward to working with you again. And for some of you this was a second or third time. We, at Operation Shower, truly appreciate all your help, love, and support. We know we cannot do it without people like you. We are so grateful that you were willing to volunteer with us.
Thank you again for helping us share joy and honor military families."
Pausing at the 9th hole, a foursome of disabled veterans from the Adaptive Golf Association.
Players with Crescent Volunteer, who proudly wears a USMC cap in honor of her father.
Players with Crescent Volunteer, who proudly wears a USMC cap in honor of her father.
Ladies foursome on the 9th hole... judging by the smiles, it was a great day!
We continue to be amazed and humbled by this event and its organizers, the wonderful veterans and the Crescent community. Through a combination of sponsorships, raffles, 50/50, mulligans and remembrance signage, they presented the LFWMH with a donation of nearly $19,000!
With deepest gratitude, we thank all who supported this terrific event!