About Us

Community Impact Statement

Through our monthly meeting, social media, and email

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Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic

Advocacy

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Community Education, Networking, and Presentation Events

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Website Resources

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Mission

The Montgomery County Veterans Coalition advocates for our Veteran community through education, collaboration, and resourcing. 

Goals

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Values

History

The mission of the Montgomery County Veterans Coalition is to advocate for our Veteran community through education, collaboration, and resourcing. Sherry Pickering founded our organization in June of 2014 and achieved 501c3 status by Nov 2016. Our organization was inspired by a committee developed by Karla Mullen to educate veteran serving organizations about the resources available in the community. The vision of the Coalition grew to include being a flow of Veteran information, educating all of our community on Veteran issues, and advocating for Veterans and their families.  An important contribution made by MCVC includes identifying veteran related problems, creating, and implementing solutions, with a focus on reducing the duplication of services. As a backbone organization our more than 350 members representing over 200 nonprofits, veterans’ organization, churches, businesses, and governmental agencies. As the City of Clarksville Mayor Joe Pitts said, “The most valuable role the Coalition plays is establishing communication among and between agencies serving our veteran community. Without a doubt we are a better community for having a coordinating agency like the Veterans Coalition leading the charge.” 

 

As of 2020, MCVC has been awarded and continued to maintain the Platinum Transparency rating from Guidestar. As a VA recognized Community Veteran Engagement Board, MCVC works with community and VA leaders alike to spotlight areas of concern for veterans and works to build community capacity to ensure Veteran families have every opportunity needed to thrive in our community. 

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About Us

About Us Community Impact Statement Through our monthly meeting, social media, and email A collaboration of over 300 members. We represent non-profits, churches, businesses, veteran orgs, and governmental agencies. Organizational Facebook had over 700,000 organic reaches in 2019 and emails that reach Montgomery, Houston, Stewart, Davidson, Rutherford, and Dickson County, including Ft. Campbell, Chattanooga, Jackson, and Christian County, KY. Created a previously non-existent vehicle to serve as a flow of veteran information. We have consistent organizational representation at our monthly meetings. Each month our meeting provides a presentation or class, networking, resourcing, and an open discussion to identify and