Program areas at United Heroes League
Since inception in 2009, United Heroes League has positively affected the lives of over 100,000 military families from coast to coast and around the world. We accomplish our mission by providing service members and their families free sports equipment, financial grants to offset sports fees, skill development camps, pro sport ticketing for the military families to enjoy a special night out together before or after a deployment, and special experiences of meeting pro athletes face to face. Additionally, "United Heroes League outdoors" continues to grow to provide unique outdoor experiences for military kids that may not play a traditional team sport. The program includes fishing trips around the country with military kids, pro anglers, and sports celebrities. The outdoor platform also recently added archery and bow hunting for our midwest markets and includes a 3d archery course on the uhl campus in Minnesota. United Heroes League continues to develop its corporate campus in hastings, mn, with the intent to build the nation's first sports complex dedicated to serving military kids and veterans. The campus currently includes a large-scale monument that honors individual military members from world war i to present day, a full-scale military obstacle course, archery ranges, land navigation/orienteering, and new in 2023 was the addition of an outdoor, refrigerated, regulation hockey rink. The campus assets are used for charitable purposes in addition to targeted fundraising events and local community usage. To date, the organization has provided over 55,000 pro sports tickets, over 16,000 sets of athletic equipment, sent over 6,000 kids to free sports camps, and assisted with over 700,000 in financial aid to offset registration fees for lower ranking military families. Additionally, tens of thousands of additional military families have been positively impacted by bringing pro athlete ambassadors to active-duty installations, armories, and veteran homes to boost the morale of our service members and their kids. Often times these visits include special private meet and greet sessions for families struggling with severe service-related injuries or a parent who was killed in action. United Heroes League continues to grow and aims to positively impact all five million military kids and twenty-five million veterans and service members. The organization will continue to develop its campus assets, increase giving on an annual basis, and is excited to have our local vfw post moving to our location in the fall of 2024.