Veterans Community Project
At a glance
- Category
- Health & Wellness
- How it's listed
- Found in our own research. Its site was confirmed live and serving the military community on . That is a check that it exists, not a judgement that it is good.
- Website
- vcp.org
About Veterans Community Project
Published by Veterans Community Project on their own website. Quoted here in full as they wrote it.
Our story
Look with us into the past, present, and future of fixing Veteran homelessness together.
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Throughout our past, your support has built the future
From a handful of determined Veterans in Kansas City to a national movement fixing Veteran homelessness, our journey has been built one step at a time with you by our side. Every milestone in our history, from every tiny home built to every Village opened to every Veteran served, was made possible by the generosity, trust, and commitment of the community.
2016-2017
How it all started
Our combat Veteran founders Bryan Meyer, Brandonn Mixon, Vincent Morales, and Mark Solomon had met through independent volunteer work helping fellow Veterans.
What began as a nights-and-weekends brainstorm over dining room tables grew into a bold, new vision for support services: Veterans Community Project. In a matter of months, each co-founder left their full-time job to pursue the idea—including bootstrapping much of it themselves.
We acquired an old building in Kansas City, Missouri, that was previously an old auto parts store—and, today, is still our national headquarters office. Our initial service to local Veterans was providing bus passes and in less than a year we helped them take 1 million rides.
Across the street sat an empty, overgrown field that was once home to a thriving driving range in the 1950s. Our co-founders engaged the community to clean up the property while sharing their vision for a community of tiny homes (and finding quite a few golf balls in the process).
In the meantime, the group worked on a prototype tiny home in one of their driveways. On Christmas Eve—December 24, 2017—we started framing the first 13 tiny homes at what would become our flagship Village and Veterans Community Project of Kansas City.
2018
Welcoming our first residents
One month after the framing—on January 29, 2018—the first 13 homes were ready for Veteran residents to move into the Village. Marvin, who served in the U.S. Army and U.S. Coast Guard, said of the day, “It’s overwhelming at times because I’ve been in so many negative situations and doors closed in my face. Words can’t really describe this. God has looked down on me and my fellow military buddies came and rescued me… never leave a man behind.”
While working 1:1 with the original 13 residents to address underlying issues and work toward permanent housing readiness, we continued building out the Village, employing trauma-informed design on the homes and arranging them in a barracks-style community.
The community rallied behind our Veteran residents, with hundreds of volunteers—including Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes—helping to complete the Village.
We continued to adjust our interior layouts, using PTSD-informed design principles as well as hands-on research like Co-Founder Bryan Meyer spending a summer living in a tiny home with his dog, Scanlon.
Our write-up
Veterans Community Project is in our directory because we went looking for resources in this category and confirmed theirs is real and serving this community. What you see above is their own description, quoted from their site. We have not yet added our own write-up — the programs, eligibility and military fit that we check ourselves — and we would rather leave that blank than guess at it.
In the meantime, their official site is the authority: vcp.org
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