We Gift More Than Just a Motorcycle
Riding is an alternative therapy and our gifts are the tools by which one regains its healing benefits. The Harleys are not awards for service achievements, popularity-based or simply thank-you gifts but are, instead, meant to help change, if not save, struggling and at-risk Veteran’s lives by returning the ability to ride. While our goal is to gift one bike a year, since our first gifting in May 2016, 41 injured Wisconsin Veteran riders have now regained riding in their lives. This May we will start our eighth year of gifting Harleys and, with your support, plan to put another NINE Veterans back on the road during our 2024 riding season.
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LATEST NEWS
BREAKING NEWS: Our second, and last, application period for 2024 is OPEN NOW and runs May 1 through May 18, 2024. Application criteria and materials are available on our “Application & Selection” website page, and submissions must be postmarked on/by May 18, 2024 to be considered.
We will be selecting THREE MORE Veteran riders to return to The Road July-September, 2024. Submitted your application earlier this year and not selected? It is still good and will be considered for every gifting we are able to do in 2024.
Can you help spread our word? Print off and hang this PDF open-announcement flier, or copy, paste and post it electronically, to any site where Wisconsin Veterans are likely to come across it!
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WE’RE MAKING IT A DOUBLE! Our next Presentation of Keys will be on May 11, 2024 at 12:00 in Mountain, WI at The Schoolhouse Bar…and we will be handing over TWO SETS OF KEYS. Army Veteran Joshua Perkins of Suring, WI is #42 to return to the road with our healing gift of a Harley. Sharing the stage will be #43 our first Air Force Veteran, Scott Williams of Three Lakes, WI. Be sure to read about each Recipient’s story of service, struggle and strength by scrolling below to their VETERAN BUTTONS #42 & #43.
You can find the event flier by clicking here.
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NEWS: Our First Recipient of 2024, #41, is Army Veteran Brandon Kronberg of Hortonville, Wisconsin. Scroll down and click on the “VETERAN 41: KRONBERG” button to read his story.
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LEARN ABOUT PAST RECIPIENTS! Miss the stories of our past Recipients? Catch them below by simply clicking on the Veteran’s name button.
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CATCH OUR LATEST NEWSLETTER! Find out the latest happenings and updates in our most recent Hogs for Heroes newsletter. Read it here!
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UNBELIEVABLE NEWS: Fox News and their Fox & Friends First morning program flew a crew out, with Anchor Todd Piro, to interview our Hogs For Heroes family and recipients as we handed over our 18th set of keys to Marine Veteran Rick Erickson on May 23, 2021. National attention? Us? UNBELIEVABLE!
Take a few minutes to watch this compassionate production on our mission’s efforts and impact by clicking here.
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SUPER COOL NEWS: Once again, our Recipients came up with a way to express their appreciation for the healing gifts you made possible in their lives. In addition to the decals they previously made, they recently chose to have license plates that designate their gifting number for those who want them. Watch for WI motorcycle plates on the road that read H4H 1-31 (i.e. H4H 6), with hopefully more numbers to come. And please note, Hogs For Heroes does not ask Recipients to tag their beautiful bikes (or themselves) in any way. They choose to do it.
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THE “THIS JUST DOESN’T GET OLD” NEWS: In November 2019, our Founding Family was surprised by a party our Recipients, their spouses and our Board members threw to honor us. We still choke up over this. NBC15 Madison was on hand to capture the surprise moment and tell us our nonprofit had been selected for their regional “Making A Difference” Award! This beautiful piece was created and narrated by NBC News Anchor John Stofflet and his skilled team, and features our first recipient, Sun Prairie Marine Scott Kruchten. And the cherry on top… it won a coveted Edward J. Muir journalism award in 2020. Catch the video here.