Our Ongoing Thought Leadership
We identify and champion areas of need that are most critical to the veteran and military population we serve.
Stand SMART for Heroes
The Bob Woodruff Foundation is proud to partner with best-in-class scientific organizations to provide important research findings to the community of organizations that represent and serve post-9/11 veterans, service members, families, and caregivers.
Bridging the Gap: How Existing Systems of Care Can Collaborate to Address Homelessness Among Veterans
Tackling the Terms: Baseline Definitions for Equine-Assisted Services
Emergency Financial Assistance: Best Practices
Shared Decision Making for PTSD Treatment
Using Medical-Legal Partnership to Reduce Barriers to Veteran Health and Wellbeing
Reading Between the Posts: How to Use Social Media Patterns to Identify Veterans At Risk for Suicide
New Treatment Opportunities from Genetic Markers for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Susceptibility and Risk
Research Reviews
Stand SMART for Heroes
The Bob Woodruff Foundation is proud to partner with best-in-class scientific organizations to provide important research findings to the community of organizations that represent and serve post-9/11 veterans, service members, families, and caregivers.
Bridging the Gap: How Existing Systems of Care Can Collaborate to Address Homelessness Among Veterans
Tackling the Terms: Baseline Definitions for Equine-Assisted Services
Emergency Financial Assistance: Best Practices
Shared Decision Making for PTSD Treatment
Using Medical-Legal Partnership to Reduce Barriers to Veteran Health and Wellbeing
Reading Between the Posts: How to Use Social Media Patterns to Identify Veterans At Risk for Suicide
New Treatment Opportunities from Genetic Markers for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Susceptibility and Risk
Research Reviews
Got Your 6 Network: Quantifying and Addressing Veterans Needs in 2023
Quantifying and Addressing Veterans’ Needs in 2023
Understanding the Role of Complementary and Integrative Health in Treating PTSD
Beyond Financial Assistance: Addressing Risk Factors for Homelessness Among Veterans
Understanding the PACT Act
Spotlight on How Military Service Can Affect Fertility
Suicide Prevention or Suicide Protection: Understanding Every Organization’s Unique Role
Stand SMART for Heroes: Spotlight on Military Children’s Mental Health
Food Insecurity Among Military Families: Contributing Factors and Solutions
VIVA – Veterans In Vitro InitiAtive
Supporting programs that help veterans begin a family is rooted in the Bob Woodruff Foundation mission – to find, fund, and shape innovative programs that help veterans, service members, and their families thrive. The Bob Woodruff Foundation is proud to have funded more than 30 veterans since we initiated the VIVA Fund in 2016.
The Bob Woodruff Foundation (BWF) works in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs, to inform veterans with service-connected fertility challenges of the various fertility benefits and services available to them. When the VA-funded program is not appropriate for a veteran, BWF may provide up to $5,000 funding to veterans eligible for the BWF Veterans In Vitro InitiAtive (VIVA) Fund.
High Impact Convenings
The Bob Woodruff Foundation hosts convenings on issues that can drive change. At our convenings, we spotlight advances in select fields and build partnerships among government, military, nonprofit and corporate stakeholders who can support our mission.
Convening Reports
Catch up on reports from our convenings.
Medical-Legal Partnership – May 2019
This High Impact Collaboration™ event brought together 85 professionals, including practitioners involved in 23 medical-legal partnerships at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities, leadership from Departments of Veterans Affairs, and Health and Human Services, and advocates working to drive policy impacting our nation’s veterans and military-connected families and caregivers.
Intimacy After Injury
Therapeutic Advances to Alleviate the Devastating Impact of War Injury on Fertility and on Physical and Emotional Intimacy.
Animal-Assisted Therapy and Service Dogs in Military Medicine – June 2014
On June 12, 2014, the Bob Woodruff Foundation sponsored a second convening on the use of service dogs in treatment protocols for service members and veterans suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS).
Adaptive Sports Training & Certification Programs
During the past year Northeast Passage at the University of New Hampshire, with support from the Bob Woodruff Foundation, conducted a study of the sanctioned training available to and utilized by adaptive sports programs, their volunteers, instructors, and coaches.
Animal-Assisted Therapy and Service Dogs in Military Medicine – December 2013
On December 4, 2013, the Bob Woodruff Foundation, in collaboration with the National Intrepid Center for Excellence (NICoE), sponsored a convening on the expanding role of animal-assisted therapy and the use of service dogs in military medicine.
Impact Stories
Learn how our work has impacted the lives of veterans and their families.