Support Dubuque’s Veterans Freedom Center All Month Long with Kwik Stop

When it comes to supporting local non-profits, there might not be an easier and more impactful program than Kwik Care.

If you're not aware, Kwik Care has helped raise both funds and awareness for local nonprofits. Each month, Kwik Stop and Dairy Queen help collect donations for a different organization. Donations can be made easily by requesting your total purchase at any of those businesses (including at the gas pumps at Kwik Stop) be rounded up to the nearest dollar. The additional cents used to round up will be donated to the respective charity of the month.

This month's Kwik Care recipient is Veterans Freedom Center (VFC). The center exists to meet the needs of active duty, reserve, and all Honorably Discharged Tri-State military veterans, per their website. Heather Hamm of Rainbo Oil/Kwik Stop stopped by to talk about the Kwik Care program.

She wasn't the only guest in the studio either! Adam Green, the new man behind the Veterans Freedom Center, also stopped by the studio to talk about all the center does for vets and the community as a whole:

The Veterans Freedom Center is a nonprofit organization that is focused on giving back to veterans in the community and veterans in need. [We] don't receive any kind of funding from a funding or a state level, so all the funding we receive is based off of donations in the area.

Green noted the money is used to buy everything such as mobility vans (part of the "Give a Vet a Lift" program) to help transport vets to Iowa City for crucial medical treatment to getting veterans wheelchairs, walkers, and canes (part of the "Operation: We Care" program).

An unassuming building located in an industrial-esque strip on Dubuque's Kerper Boulevard, the VFC stands tall: a place for vets to mingle over a cup of coffee, food, dessert, woodwork, build crafts, and enjoy a different breed of glory years. I took a tour of it last summer and posted several pictures and footnotes about the center itself.

All month long, Kwik Stop and Dairy Queen will be taking donations that will go directly to Veterans Freedom Center via the aforementioned Kwik Care canisters at the counter or if customers request their purchase-total be rounded up to the nearest dollar (the difference going to Veterans Freedom Center). You can also look for the specially marked VFC gas pump, where two cents of every gallon sold at that pump will go directly to VFC!

Find it in your hearts to donate to Veterans Freedom Center via Kwik Care this month, if you're able. And take a listen to my full interview with Adam Green of VFC and Heather Hamm of Rainbo Oil/Kwik Stop below!