April 21, 2010
No Greater Sacrifice Foundation Announces Partnership with Women in Homeland Security
The Partnership Will Raise Funds to Educate the Children of Permanently Wounded Military Personnel
April 2010
WASHINGTON (April 16, 2010)— No Greater Sacrifice Foundation will announce its cooperative relationship with Women in Homeland Security on May 6th, 2010 at The Heritage Foundation’s Lehrman Auditorium.
No Greater Sacrifice ("NGS") serves to bridge the educational development for the families of our nation's permanently wounded heroes. The men and women of the United States Armed Forces risk their lives every day for our country and our way of life. There is no greater sacrifice: to serve, to work, to fight - and if need be - to lay down one's life for the cause of freedom. In making this sacrifice, every Soldier, Sailor, Airman, and Marine, is forced to leave his or her loved ones back home.
For those who have made this sacrifice for their country, our job is to help finish their work by raising funds to pay for post secondary education for their children. NGS was a start-up two years ago, but since has committed full funding for college educations to over a dozen fallen and wounded soldier families. Its goal over the next few years is to greatly expand its reach so that those who serve our country and suffer permanent injuries can rest assured that their children receive the education they deserve.
Women in Homeland Security (“WHS”) is a one-year-old networking and professional development organization designed to help women working in the field of homeland security learn, excel and succeed. Membership currently stands at about 450. WHS will announce that it has chosen as its domestic charity NGS. WHS seeks to raise monies to support a military female and mother who has received significant injuries during the course of her duties on behalf of the nation. WHS is recruiting women to serve on the Host Committee for this cause, and will extend an invitation to join this fundraising effort.
We are Ellen Howe, (Director of Business development with L-3 Security & Detection Systems and former TSA assistant administrator); Rebekah Williams Lovorn (Principal, TruVoltage, LLC and Board Member, NGS); Janice Kephart, Chair (Director of National Security Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies and former Counsel to the 9/11 Commission); Jena Baker McNeill (Policy Analyst with The Heritage Foundation); Julie Myers Wood (former DHS Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, now principal of ICS Consulting, LLC); and Kirk Rostron (Chairman and Founder, No Greater Sacrifice; and Kristina Tanasichuk (Vice President, Homeland Security & Defense Business Council and President, Women in Homeland Security).
For more information visit www.nogreatersacrifice.org /partners/women in homelandsecurity
