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2019! Welcome the New Year!
Hello Donors, Military Families, Supporters,
Coups For Troops had a wonderful 2018, with adding more Donors, more Military Families, and more Supporters. We are proud that we can serve so many military families stationed overseas, but of course, we couldn’t do it without our wonderful Satellite and Direct Mail Donors! They are the shining stars behind our program.
Our staff keeps the day to day operations going, while running their full time jobs and families! We even had a new addition to our staff family this year, as our Mail Coordinator, Pam Drigger gave birth to a son – Kaleb. He is adorable! Please be patient with her, on new assignments, because she’s running on the “new Mommy sleep schedule” aka no sleep.
We have a lot of growth in store for 2019! We are thankful to the people who help us financially to help with this website and our URL. All postage is currently self funded by the donors, and of course, none of our staff receives any payment.
We are always looking for ways to better serve the military families overseas. If you have an idea on how we can serve, please use the General Info contact form and submit a Suggestion.
Thank you for your service to our country and your support of Coups For Troops!
Sincerely yours,
Lisa Bowers
Director/Volunteer
Ready for the Sun & Summer Time!
Here at Coups For Troops, we are busy getting assignments matched and taking care of our military families stationed overseas. I don’t know about you, but I’m glad the sun is shining and Summer is finally here.
Huge shout out to Pam Driggers who has held down the “fort” over the last few weeks. As some of you are aware, the morning after Easter my Mother became suddenly ill and ended up in the Critical Care Unit. After 8 days, she passed away and Heaven gained a new Angel. That was a hard and unexpected time for me, and I believe I’m still somewhat in shock that she’s gone. I am also still struggling to resume life fully, so I’m slacking in helping out with Coups For Troops. Normally, Stephanie is right there with Pam in the emails providing awesome service, but at the same time, that I was out spending time at the hospital and with family, Stephanie was dealing with some medical issues of her own and having a minor procedure. She’s recovering nicely now as well, but is still on restrictive duty!
So give Pam a round of applause and if you’re emailing in, be sure to be extra sweet to her. She deserves it. Pam, I promise to double your pay* went things settle down! 😛
*We are all volunteers here, so doubling Pam’s pay results in still no pay. shhhh!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
– To our military families stateside and overseas
– To our wonderful donors who sends coupons to them
– To our financial supporters who helps make all this possible
May your holiday be blessed, filled with love, and memories be made. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy Hanukkah!!!
~CFT Admin Staff: Lisa, Pam, and Stephanie
Happy Veteran’s Day
Our heartfelt appreciation to all Men, Women and their families who have served. It is our honor to serve you while you serve your nation. Thank you Veterans and Active Duty, we salute you.
CFT is 1 year old!!!
Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday Dear CFT Inc.
Happy Birthday To You!
That’s right, it’s CFT’s birthday! A year ago, a few of Coups For Troops volunteers decided it was time to take this hobby organization to the next step. CFT Inc was formed and we obtained 501(c)3 status as a US Federally recognized non-profit charity. So now we get to celebrate our first anniversary as a non-profit charity! This gives us the advantage of being a tax-deductible charity providing coupons to our military family, as well as the only one that send the coupons directly to the families of our military.
What a wonderful year it has been! Coups For Troops continues to match military families with US donors to send unwanted and expired coupons directly to their homes overseas on military bases. In the past year, CFT has added over 1,000 new military families to receive coupons and over 2,000 new donors! This is building on the 4 years prior and over countless other families who have been in our program.
As many of you know, Coups For Troops has always been a self funded volunteer operation, which our donors funding all of the postage to get over a ton of coupons shipped overseas each year. This is done completely free of charge to our military families. Our volunteers have done this out of the kindness of their hearts and believe in our mission of supporting those who protect us.
Going forward for the next year and beyond, we would like expand our program to reach out to every family stationed overseas which would like to receive coupons. We would like to help some of our volunteers to be able to fund additional packages of coupons overseas. We would like to expand to provide other services to our military families stationed overseas, as they express their needs. We are excited to be able to grow CFT and we can’t wait to see what the next year has in store for us!
If you would like to hear more about our volunteer opportunities or how you or your company could partner with us to help with postage, please contact us at info@coupsfortroops.org.
Patience…while we work :)
The CFT Database is down for unscheduled routine maintenance, because we have gotten so big that we maxed out our DB size! What a wonderful problem to have! Due to this, if you are waiting for a match either as a Direct Mail or Satellite, we are unable to do so right now. Our IT Guy, Steve, says we should be back up shortly. Until then, cut those coupons and we will answer all inquires as soon as possible.
We have NOT been Hacked!
If you do a search for Coups For Troops in Google right now, you will see this message under our name: “This site may be hacked.” We have had multiple IT professionals check out the site, and we are confident that we have not been hacked. We are in communication with Google to get this warning removed.
Thank you to the wonderful supporters and donors who alerted us to this, and please be assured that no information is stored in our website other than the satellite addresses that appears in the Interactive maps, with their permission. Our military family addresses are secure, even if we should be hacked.
If you have any questions or if you should see something funky with our website, PLEASE message us via Facebook or directly to info@CoupsForTroops.Com. Thank you! ~Lisa/Director