Bristow Veteran's Foundation Receives Jackpot Donation

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It seems the Bristow based Veteran’s organization won the lottery. Not quite, but when three Connecticut money managers won a shared $254 million in a Powerball jackpot on Dec. 4, they immediately promised $1 to be split between five veterans’ organizations.

Greenwhich wealth fund managers, Greg Skidmore, Brandon Lacoff and Tim Davidson, chose the Bob Woodruff Foundation in Bristow, as well as Building Homes for Heroes in Valley Stream, NY: Serves for the Under Serviced and Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund in New York City; another northern Virginia organization, Operation First Response in Culpepper.

“Many of these veterans are faced with a myriad of real and immediate personal issues that range from trauma to foreclosure. These grant awards reflect the beginning of a process that allows us to leverage lottery winnings into materially helping our society,” Locoff, Skidmore and Davidson said in a statement on Sunday.

According to its website The Bob Woodruff Foundation, “provides resources and support to injured service members and their families and works to reintegrate them back into society.

In its mission statement the Bob Woodruff Foundations says it seeks to educate the public about the needs of service members, collaborate with government services and invest in national and community based programs.

Well-known and respected ABC journalist Bob Woodruff started the foundation after being critically injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq, while covering a story for World New Tonight. Woodruff had just taken over the position from Peter Jennings when he received the shapnel wounds and suffered head injuries.

Although located in Bristow, the Bob Woodruff Foundation serves beyond the immediate area. Bristow Beat is attempting to reach the Bob Woodruff Foundation for comment.

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