We are proud to present the Adopt a Unit program, providing individuals, companies, churches, schools and other civic groups another great way to support our deployed troops.
As an adopting group, OTA will provide you with information about your unit, including: a photo, their mission, deployed location, home base, number of soldiers, "wish list," and the targeted donation amount needed to fulfill the list. As troops contact us directly, the number of available units and the costs to fulfill wish-list requests may vary.
You raise the funds and send them to OTA (along with cards and letters for the troops). OTA will secure the items and send them with your personal greetings to the adopted unit.
For general information regarding unit adoptions, click here. If you have questions, click here and an OTA rep will contact you shortly to begin the adoption process!
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Success Stories
- One unit of nurses raised over $1,300 through a "Soldier Snowman" adoption program.
- Elementary school students collected "Cents For Soldiers", bringing in pennies in one day, nickels the next, progressing to dollar bills and an overall total of $3,500!
- Faculty and Staff at the University of Pittsburgh held a raffle and silent auction to sponsor two units of deployed troops, raising over $2,000
- A church congregation conducted a special offering to fund "wish list" items for their adopted unit, raising $500.
- A Karate Club raised over $250 for their unit of adopted soldiers.
- An Avon representative raffled off a basket of Avon products, generating $180 to adopt a unit.
- Four Pittsburgh business owners and friends came together to adopt a unit, and donated $1200 for their unit of soldiers.
- Two Philadephia area high school seniors adopted a unit as their senior project and raised three times their targeted goal, helping even more soldiers!
