Give every month and put service dogs with Veterans

Monthly gifts let SWAM keep funding service dogs and allow the organizations that train them to plan ahead.

Veteran mental health comes first.
SWAM funds retreats and service dogs to reduce Veteran suicide.

Your gift reaches Veterans through proven partners.
Organizations SWAM funds in New Hampshire and across the country provide shelter, scholarships, retreats and service dogs.

At $25 a month you join Team SWAM.
Members get early access to events, 10% off SWAM gear, quarterly updates and a gift box after their first year.

How your monthly gift puts a service dog with a Veteran

A service dog trains for months before it goes home with a veteran. Monthly gifts keep money coming to SWAM the whole time.

Twelve weeks
A rescued dog learns the basics at Operation Delta Dog in Hollis.

Four to six more weeks
The dog and a veteran living with PTSD, traumatic brain injury or military sexual trauma train together at least twice a week.

For the life of the dog
The dog moves in with the Veteran, and Operation Delta Dog stays involved.

Every month
Your gift comes in, so how many dogs SWAM can fund does not rise and fall with a single event.

Why a monthly gift does more

The same total over a year reaches veterans more reliably when it arrives a little at a time.

SWAM can plan around it.
Monthly gifts give SWAM steady money to grant, so it can commit to the organizations that apply each year.

Programs can plan too.
Retreats, shelter beds and service dog training are scheduled months ahead. Predictable support makes that easier.

A monthly gift is easy to keep up.
A small amount each month fits a budget that a single large gift may not, and you can change or cancel it any time.

What SWAM grants have done for Veterans

The organizations your gift supports provide shelter, retreats, scholarships and service dogs.

The organizations your gift supports

See every organization SWAM funds

One monthly gift reaches Veterans through many organizations

SWAM grants money to veteran service organizations that provide service dogs, housing, retreats and mental health care. A grant committee reviews every application for need, capacity and impact, so your gift goes where it can help most.

Join Team SWAM

Every monthly donor at $25 or more is a member of Team SWAM. Team SWAM is how SWAM thanks the people who keep its grants steady and how you see what your gift does.

Early access to events and 10% off gear

Members get early access to tickets for every ticketed SWAM event and 10% off all SWAM merchandise.

Members get SWAM's quarterly newsletter on what SWAM and the organizations it funds are doing.

Quarterly updates

One-year anniversary gift box

Stay on the team for a year and SWAM sends you a gift box to mark it.

Questions about giving

  • Veteran service organizations apply for a SWAM grant each year between July 1 and September 30. SWAM's Grant Committee reviews every application for mission alignment, demonstrated need, organizational capacity and potential impact on the veteran community, and recipients are announced in the fall.

    SWAM also hosts an annual VSO Summit that brings veteran organizations, the VA and local leaders into one room to find gaps in care. The current focus is mental health and reducing veteran suicide. SWAM funds retreats that bring veterans together and as many service dogs as it can. See the 2025 grant recipients.

  • SWAM is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so gifts are generally tax deductible. Keep your confirmation email for your records.

  • Yes. Email info@swam.org and we will change or cancel it.

  • Companies usually match at 1:1, and some at 2:1, 3:1 or 4:1. Contact SWAM to find out whether your employer will.

  • Yes. Make checks payable to Swimming With A Mission, Inc. and mail them to 1 Hardy Road #127, Bedford, NH 03110. You can also give through Venmo at @swimwithamission, or use a donor-advised fund or stock transfer from swam.org/donate.

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Monthly gifts of $25 or more join Team SWAM.