Strong communities take care of the people who serve them, the families who depend on them, and the neighbors who need a hand when life gets difficult.
Patriot Community Support (PCS) supports veterans, first responders, their families, and the broader community through practical assistance, local partnerships, and direct investment in programs that make a visible difference.
We are not here to duplicate what other organizations already do well. We strengthen those efforts, fill the gaps that are often missed, and give the community a dependable local source of support when a real need appears.
Veterans and first responders are central to our mission because they represent service in its clearest form. Their service reaches spouses, children, parents, and entire families, so we support the people standing beside them too.
A healthy community is interconnected, so our help does not stop there. The child who cannot afford a school activity, the family facing an unexpected death, the senior who needs basic assistance, and the local nonprofit short on funding are all part of the same community.
For us, patriotism is bigger than a tag line, a uniform, or a ceremony. It is service. It is responsibility. It is neighbors helping neighbors.
It is recognizing a problem and deciding that someone should do something about it, and then becoming that someone.
PCS turns that spirit into action.
For years, local veterans have raised money the hard way: rummage sales, raffles, and weekends of heavy lifting. They worked hard, and the need never went away. What was running out was not willingness. It was manpower.
The mission is still needed, the community still cares, and the money is still out there. So we built PCS to raise it differently, through sponsors, grants, round-ups, and partners, so veterans can put their experience to work and not their backs, and the mission can outlast the people doing it.
We are not a distant organization that sends money somewhere and hopes it helped. We keep it personal:
Every community has veterans, first responders, families, businesses, and good people willing to serve, so a successful local organization can become a template for other communities.
PCS is led by veterans from every branch of service who have spent years serving their own communities. We know the people we help because we live and work alongside them.
Douglas Larned
Carrie Mergell
Andy Nystrom
Charles Borowy
Ed Brown
Serving Veterans, First Responders, and the Communities They Serve.
