Community Insights and Impact 

Strengthening Veteran Communities 

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Community of Practice

A group of veteran service organizations, government agencies, and other groups that meet virtually each month to collaborate and share best practices to better serve veterans and their families nationwide. 

Learn more about joining our Community of Practice
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Strategic Advising

IVMF conducts needs and landscape assessments to identify gaps in services, underserved populations, and opportunities for coordination. Then, the team helps you build a strategic plan.

Learn more about our Strategic Advising Team
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Community Impact & Insights-Driven Research

The Community Impact & Insights team has generated volumes of research exploring how communities serve and impact veterans and their families.  

Learn more about our Research

Nearly sixty percent of veterans struggle to navigate the resources available to them and name it as a top challenge in their post-service lives.

 Resources exist, but they’re scattered, siloed, and difficult to find. Communities lack the coordination to connect veterans to the right support at the right time. 

IVMF has spent over a decade solving that problem, dating back to our work on coordinated care with the AmericaServes initiative which began in 2015.

Today, our Community of Practice and Strategic Advising Team partners with state and local governments, veteran service organizations, and other groups to help them identify opportunities and points of friction in their communities’ veteran services landscapes. We also help coordinate functional networks that transform how communities serve veterans and military families from the ground up.  

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A Look Back at AmericaServes

From 2015-2021, IVMF launched or affiliated with seventeen networks focused on coordinating resources and access to care for veterans and military families across the country. AmericaServes eventually evolved to local ownership of the various networks, and served as a springboard for our Community of Practice and Strategic Advising team as they exist today.  

IVMF’s paradigm-shifting work on AmericaServes

Mission United of the United Way of South Hampton Roads has benefited immensely from the support and guidance of the great team at the IVMF. The Current State Assessment the IVMF completed for us this year has provided a clear path forward for our coordinated care network initiatives.
Anthony Williams Former Director Mission United of the United Way of South Hampton Roads
Anthony Williams