The rambunctious Wounded Warrior Project embraces multichannel strategies to fund its mission to transition America’s youngest disabled vets back into civilian life.

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

“The goal of the Wounded Warrior Project is really to work on healing mind, body and spirit for people that have been injured either physically or spiritually or mentally in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Melia explains. “Our mission is specific to the younger vets. It’s not that we don’t have any real affinity for the other generations of warriors out there, but we felt that there was a big generational gap between the Vietnam-era veterans and these folks, and that they needed a different kind of organization to serve their needs.