We Are Stronger Together
It’s more important now than ever that we work together to support the military and veteran community. The Veterans Collaborative hosts monthly virtual collaboration summits, creating space for connections and information- and resource-sharing among service providers and offers shared resources and infrastructure to support resiliency in the veteran community and align efforts to respond to the emerging and longstanding needs of service members, veterans, families, caregivers, and survivors.
Our MISSION
To encourage community, build strategic coalition, and foster a data-driven understanding of the needs of the veteran community in Massachusetts.
Our Vision
The military and veteran community is served by a connected and supportive network of organizations working together to enrich their lives.
Our Guiding Principles
We identify challenges affecting the veteran community.
We brainstorm solutions to alleviate these issues.
We develop a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
We leverage and build on existing resources.
We foster sustainable, mutually beneficial collaboration.
We work to align organizations to allow for maximum impact.
Community & Collaboration Summits
We typically open our virtual collaboration summits with introductions from new participants and updates from participants with local, state, or federal agencies before offering an orientation to the collaborative’s resources and opening the floor for any other service providers with something to share.
If you’re new to the Veterans Collaborative, sign in here to be notified about upcoming summits and connect yourself to the Network Directory.
Collaborate with us!
Service providers and others who offer services or support accessible to the military and veteran community in Massachusetts can join our monthly virtual collaboration summits––click here on the 1st Wednesday of the month at 3:30pm to join us via Zoom. Sign in below to receive our monthly newsletter a couple of days before each summit with upcoming grant opportunities, webinars and trainings for service providers, and other resources.
Shared Resources
In response to some of the core gaps and needs identified by participants, the Veterans Collaborative has developed several resources and tools to support efficiency and outreach over time. We gathered these and launched our website in 2016 as an interactive hub for participants and others to access relevant information, resources, training, events, data, and learnings from summits and other initiatives.
Our website includes targeted and current local and virtual event listings, information, resource trackers, and directories relevant to local areas and broader resource networks. You can submit events to RISEUP.vet, our shared calendar. These events are embedded throughout the website on relevant resource and region pages alongside relevant segments of our shared Statewide Resource Directories. Actively submitting events to a central calendar and maintaining directories centrally increases efficiency of outreach efforts and saves everyone the parallel efforts of building and maintaining their own –– freeing organizations to focus on their individual missions and impact.
Use the pages under the Collaborate tab to connect, access collaborative tools, and learn how to use and contribute to shared resources and the Veterans Collaborative Network Directory. You can also access our shared slack, the digital workspace that powers our collaboration, bringing all the pieces and the people into one place so we can get things done (while freeing up everyone’s inboxes)!