Leadership Green Bay Team 6New!!
Leadership Green Bay Class of 2024, Team 6 Fundraising Efforts for Veterans 1st of Northeast Wisconsin What started as a simple class project turned into something much more meaningful for Team 6 of Leadership Green Bay’s Class of 2024. Tasked with identifying a way to make a lasting impact in the community, the team found […]
Press Gazette article about our progress
From the article:Green Bay's first tiny home village could come to fruition by 2027, after years of setbacks and work with the community. Veterans 1st of NEW is building a "cottage court" of 21 tiny homes especially for veterans who struggle to find affordable housing. Brown County donated a 3½-acre site for the nonprofit's project in 2023, but […]
Grand Appliance Foundation
Gratitude in Action: Thank You to the Grand Foundation At Veterans 1st of NEW, our mission is to build supportive, affordable housing for those who have served our country. Every step forward is made possible by the generous support of partners who share our vision—and today, we are proud to recognize one such partner: the […]
Grand Appliance Donation Raffle
Enter to Win a Made-in-Wisconsin Washer & Help Local Veterans! April 14–27 | Grand Appliance | grandappliance.com/draft In honor of the NFL Draft coming to Green Bay, Grand Appliance is running a Draft Week Giveaway that celebrates Wisconsin pride and community impact. One Grand Prize winner will receive a premium Speed Queen washer-dryer pair — built […]
County Materials Partnership
Veterans 1st of Northeast Wisconsin (NEW) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a supportive community for veterans in need of affordable housing, while offering resources to help them achieve greater self-sufficiency and improve their quality of life. In Brown County, there is a shortage of affordable housing for veterans. To address this, County Materials […]
Comfort Quilters
Comfort Quilters will be making and donating quilts for our veteran residents including the one pictured above. Group member Mary Bainbridge commented, "At the end of Covid I decided that I needed to clean and organize my sewing area. In the process of doing this I realized almost how much fabric I had accumulated and […]
Town 'N Country Quilt Guild
Town 'N Country Quilt Guild (TNC) is donating these quilts and twenty others for our residents in our village. TNC was officially formed in the fall of 1995. 2025 marks the 30th Anniversary of TNC. Several of the charter members of the group had met one another while attending a quilting class sponsored by the […]
RANWF Features Veterans 1st in new video
Thank you to the Realtors Association of Northeast Wisconsin for creating this informative video. The Realtors Association of Northeast Wisconsin partners with so many organizations to help them including the Habitats for Humanity organizations from Greater Green Bay, Greater Fox Cities, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, and Wolf River Habitat. They also partner with Pillars from […]
Meet our Service Providers
Check out this video which introduces some of our service providers and explains what they will offer our residents. Click on the link to view interviews with some of our many service providers including: Heather Grasse, Social Worker HUD VASH (Housing and Urban Development Veteran Affairs Supportive Housing voucher). She will be assisting our residents […]
Schneider Donation
Schneider Donates $100,000 to Veterans 1st for Tiny Home Project Schneider, a leading provider of transportation and logistics solutions headquartered in Green Bay, has announced a generous donation of $100,000 to Veterans 1st of Northeast Wisconsin. This significant contribution will support the development of a community center within the Veterans Village, a project dedicated to […]