Enhancing the Lives of Families of Fallen Heroes.
We want to help create a better world
OUR MISSION:
The Gold Star Ride Foundation will actively support, comfort and honor Gold Star Families throughout the United States and will provide these things with personal visits via motorcycle; and we will support those other organizations that work to assist in similar activities.
We do the work that our fallen heroes would do it they hadn't fallen for all our freedom.
In 2016, The Gold Star Ride Foundation began with a simple idea: Remember the families of the fallen.
Now we are approaching the end of our seventh year of doing just that.
We met Joe, who didn't know he was a Gold Star Dad, when he stopped to help us with a broken motorcycle near the New York state line.
We met Mary, who was told she didn't earn a Gold Star because her daughter, a US Marine, was killed when the Humvee, in which she was training, rolled over and killed her. "They" said she wasn't a Gold Star Mom. We said she was.
We met a 12 year old who never got to know his dad. We did what his dad would have done, and helped pay for his high school education.
We helped more than 60 families in 2018, when we met with them in person on our national motorcycle Ride for Gold Star Families. In 2019, we logged another 15,000 miles or so, raising the number of families that we helped to nearly 100! In 2020, 2021, and so far in 2022, we've continued to meet with families. We've now met with more than 400.
On January 6th, 2024, we met the oldest Gold Star Mom in history on her 105th birthday. She was family number 500.
Anthony has personally met more than 550 Gold Star Families.
Sometimes, all we had to do was show up. Sometimes, we paid the rent so a family who had given a life for all of us to be free would not go homeless. In one case, we got a house for a homeless family. In another case, we found nursing care for an aging Gold Star Dad. Another family said they didn't want anything, but we filled their refrigerator and helped them get some new clothes. Yet another Gold Star Family received a grant to help them get a new car.
The Gold Star Ride Foundation averages 10 Gold Star Families a month, every month. And we have honored families made Gold Star by every conflict since WWII.
We are not bogged down by red tape. If there is a need for a Gold Star Family, we do all we can to fill it. We do it on a motorcycle, so we can meet the family in person, and make some noise with our bikes, but sometimes the need cannot be met. We keep working anyway.
Some News Stories:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ1bd8VAXVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg-WK74OSwA&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ij1nZsj8BU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IEQmZ1fH8Y
Here's a speech at the unveiling of a Woody Williams Monument in Zimmerman, Minnesota:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hqxc4sU2jI
With your continued support, we will meet everyone's needs.
If you know a family, tell them about us. We do not seek to violate the privacy of any Gold Star Family, and we are here to help. Half or more of the families we met requested that we keep it quiet. We're happy to do that.
As you know, The Gold Star Ride Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization, which works to honor and support Gold Star Families across the United States. In 2024, 84% of ALL CONTRIBUTIONS went directly to helping Gold Star Families.
How is it that we can put 84% out to the families when all income was down?
We are all volunteers. We have no internal salaries to support.
(Incidentally, the executive director of the Gold Star Ride Foundation is, himself, a disabled warrior. When applying for benefits from a very popular charity that says they help wounded warriors, he was summarily denied any help because he served during the First Gulf War - I was too old.
We Ride Because They Died.
#What did you do today?
553
Families served
$867K
contributions received since 2018
69
number of rides to visit Gold Stars
Let's start building together
With your help, we will continue to build and grow and help more families. We will do that without your help, but it will be so much easier with your help.
Invite Anthony (Token Squid) Price to your event to speak about personal motivation, patriotism, and helping your neighbors.
You will not be disappointed.
