Travis Manion Foundation

We've raised all this money for the Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundation.

We raise all this money for veterans, local veterans, with the, uh, Travis Manion Foundation.

We get pets adopted.

Like, we're not...

Not just like let's come up with a cool beer and a cool logo and, you know.

It's like when there's meaning behind, and, and I can say that from experience just even with the Travis Manion Foundation, obviously completely different.

But it's like when you start something with a passion and purpose behind something bigger than what you're trying to do, like that's where you're gonna be successful.

And it's just been-

Research also shows that veterans volunteer in nonprofit organizations, mentor young people, support food banks, lead community projects, serve as election workers, participate in civic organizations, and help neighbors in need.

Organizations such as the Mission Continues and the Travis Manion Foundation have built entire programs around helping veterans continue serving through leadership, mentoring, community development, and volunteer service.

What's especially interesting is that researchers are finding that veterans contribute more than labor.

They contribute leadership.

Before we get into the organization, I think to understand what the organization does, it's always good to know about the people that make it up.

And I'd love to hear a little bit about your own ramp into nonprofit and in particular, how you landed at TMF.

All right.

Well, me landing at TMF is pretty interesting.

It definitely is tied to my personal background.

I've been military connected my entire life.

And so I leaned in, went back, got an education to kind of match that passion, and then found myself in the nonprofit sector.

I have three areas where I particularly enjoy serving, and that is youth development, work with youth, military families, obviously veterans and military-connected, And then I've done a lot of work through the years with families of the fallen.

Gonna be a lot of growing pains, just, like, on the field, off the field, and in the locker room, 'cause he's also a great player and a leader as well.

And we also talked to the Travis Manion Foundation tonight, where Johnson worked with veterans and Gold Star families.

They said that he used his platform for so much more than just football.

Johnson himself saying that he'll always be an Eagle and Philadelphia will always be home.

Because if I am using what I am good at, my gifts and my strengths in service of what I care about emerging right now, then purpose is going to find me.

I volunteer with the Travis Manion Foundation and they, one of their taglines, one of their values I volunteer with the Travis Manion Foundation, and one of their values is purpose begins with passion.

I have it on a hat because I think they're so right.

If I contribute the best of me to what I'm passionate about, purpose will follow, not lead.

Like, down in New Orleans, we do a, a Travis Manion, a 9/11 Heroes Run every year.

One of our candidates last week was very involved in events throughout the year, honor projects, the 9/11 Run, in his community with Travis Manion Foundation.

But it's disabled American veterans, the VSO, their local VFWs, all of these things are, are coming into play, and that's, and that's something that I'm proud of.

And I think the, the people that are making the nominations, they kind of look for a lot more of those things as well, 'cause these are gonna be ambassadors for their company, potentially for the industry.