Giving Back
As a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Company, we believe it is important to give back to our local community and extended military and first responder families. In particular, GSR is focused on our wounded warriors and first responders, and the families of our fallen comrades and we support the military community by giving hiring preference to wounded warriors. We know that many of our comrades have been severely injured but still want to contribute to the mission in some other meaningful way. As a small business entity that supports government contracting opportunities, we provide a means for wounded warriors to continue to be a part of the team and contribute once again.
We also support our local community through employment opportunities by hiring more than a third of our work force from high unemployment designated counties as part of the federal government HUBZone certification program. Hiring employees from HUBZone certified areas provides economic stimulus to historically underutilized business zones and helps sustain local economies. GSR is diligently working toward achieving HUBZone certification.
GSR supports many charitable organizations through volunteerism, annual donations, and supporting and promoting fundraising efforts. Some of the organizations that we support include:
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation (CFC #11455)
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides full scholarship grants and educational and family counseling to the surviving children of special operations personnel who die in operational or training missions. In addition, it supplies immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations personnel and their families.
Read more: http://www.specialops.org/
The Wounded Warrior Project (WWP)
The Wounded Warrior Project is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors. The WWP vision is to foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded warriors in this nation’s history. Core values include, fun, integrity, loyalty, innovation, and service. The organization’s purpose is to raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of injured service members, to help injured service members aid and assist each other, and to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet the needs of injured service members.
Read more: http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/
Sandhills Children's Center for Special Needs Children
Sandhills Children’s Center is a private, non-profit day school for young children ages birth through five who have mental retardation, sensory impairments, and other developmental disabilities. Many of these children are medically fragile and have severe and profound multiple handicaps. The mission of Sandhills Children’s Center is to provide services of the highest quality for children with and without special developmental needs.
Read more: http://www.sandhillschildrenscenter.org/