Leverage Cares

**Operation Warrior’s Path has undergone some changes over the years since we worked on it. Some of the people involved and even the website have changed but the message and cause remain. Below is information about how we worked with OWP at its inception.

Through our friend Major Ernie Banasau at Purple Heart Austin (who also introduced us to Nate Boyer), we met Bobby Farmer and Shannon Vandivier of Operation Warrior’s Path in the middle of 2015. The moment you hear Bobby, a Special Forces veteran with 10(!) tours of duty under his belt, speak about his prior struggles with PTSD and how he now focuses much of his energy to helping other veterans work through their own struggles, you just want to help the cause any way you can. Too many of our country’s veterans are committing suicide because they are unable to deal with the struggles related to re-acclimating to civilian life after all they have been through as soldiers. We want to help other veterans find the help they need. Learn more about Operation Warrior’s Path at operationwarriorspath.org

Too many men are not active in their children’s lives. Dwyane Wade Sr. and his ProPops Foundation have been working to change this by providing fathers and youth access to tools, resources and mentoring that will enable them to grow and fulfill a greater purpose. ProPops now has chapters in Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA, Milwaukee, WI and Miami, FL and is looking to launch chapters in Atlanta, GA, Washington, DC and Charlotte, NC. Leverage Marketing got involved to help further the cause by creating a new website for the organization to act as an improved platform in which to tell the story of ProPops and to increase donations so ProPops can positively affect even more lives. Learn more at propopsusa.com.

We met Nate just before kickoff at the Veteran’s Day game between UT and W. Virginia in November 2014. Bob was there supporting his dear friend, U.S. Army Veteran and UT Alum Class of ’67, Bill Puckett on what would turn out to be Bill’s final trip to Austin. Through friends of old and new, we were able to get Bill onto the field where he and Bob met Nate. Nate instantly made a mark on Bob and Leverage was soon introduced to create a web presence for Nate to reach a wider audience with his message of Post Traumatic Growth and his fight to help veterans with PTSD. You can learn more about Nate’s amazing story and the various causes he’s involved with at nateboyer.com.