Where invested partners build practical solutions together.
Veterans Lab(s)
Veteran Labs bring the right people, resources, experience, and investment together to solve persistent challenges affecting Veterans, military families, and the organizations that serve them.
Good ideas need ownership, infrastructure, and investment.
Why Veterans Lab(s)?
Complex challenges do not sit inside one organization, funding stream, or system. Veteran Labs create a structured place for community leaders, subject-matter experts, funders, public agencies, and implementation partners to build around a shared problem.
Each Lab has a defined challenge, an operating approach, invested stakeholders, measurable progress, and clear ways to participate. Convening is part of the work—but implementation is the goal.
From a recognized gap to a working solution with a proven framework.
How a Veterans Lab Works
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Understand the gap
Use lived experience, local knowledge, data, and research to define the challenge.
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Align stakeholders
Bring together the people with authority, expertise, access, and resources.
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Build and test
Develop practical tools, programs, infrastructure, and community pathways.
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Learn and scale
Measure progress, improve the model, and extend what works responsibly.
Mission Forward
Lab 01
Strengthening small and emerging Veteran-serving nonprofits through peer connection, practical learning, and access to trusted expertise.
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Leaders are often isolated, under-resourced, and expected to build organizational capacity alone.
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Leadership circles, practical training, shared learning, and trusted relationships.
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Nonprofit leaders, funders, facilitators, experts, and regional partners.
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Approximately 175 leaders registered nationally, with virtual and regional programming.
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Join as a leader, teach a session, fund a cohort, or host a regional gathering.
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Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
Bama Works
Sentara Health
Hunt Family Foundation
Heads Up Vet
Lab 02
Building awareness, early-recognition pathways, resource navigation, and community capacity around undiagnosed head injury and brain health.
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Repetitive blast, subconcussive exposure, and head injury can go unrecognized for years.
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Education, brain-health check-ins, the Veteran Resource Passport, pilots, and trusted referral pathways.
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Veterans, families, community organizations, clinicians, researchers, military partners, technology partners, and funders.
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National coalition development, community tools, and pilot work with military and collegiate partners.
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Join the coalition, share education, strengthen referrals, support research, or invest in implementation.
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Veterans Interstate Network
Lab 03
Helping states and communities connect organizations, infrastructure, data, and referral pathways so support becomes easier to find and coordinate.
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Veteran support changes across state lines, agencies, eligibility rules, and local systems.
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State-led networks supported by shared technology, resource data, local branding, and closed-loop coordination.
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State agencies, VSOs, community providers, technology partners, funders, and local leaders.
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State and regional implementation conversations supported by the VC RADAR and findhelp infrastructure.
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Launch a state network, join as a provider, contribute technology, or fund implementation.
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Findhelp.org
National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs
We measure each Lab and the infrastructure connecting them.
Collective Reach
Mission Forward
Leaders engaged, sessions delivered, organizations strengthened, and communities reached.HEADS UP VET
Partners activated, education shared, check-ins completed, referrals, and pilot progress.VIN
States engaged, organizations connected, resource records, referrals, and closed-loop outcomes.Invested Stakeholders
Partners should be visible in the work they support.
Program Funder | Technology Partner | Community Partner | Research & Clinical Partner
Build with Us
Bring more than interest. Bring a role in the solution.
Veterans Labs Partnership Inquiry
Organization and Contact
Which Lab interests you?
What outcome do you want to help create?
Interested in leading a new solution?
Everyone has a role to play in how we serve our Veteran and military community. Contact us and let us help you finds yours.