NOMINATE A VETERAN IN NEED!

At Brazen Roofing, we believe in giving back to those who have given so much for our country. We want to provide a deserving veteran with a brand-new roof, and we need your help! Let’s come together to honor and support our heroes, making a difference in a veteran’s life. Thank you for helping us give back to those who have served. Please fill out the form below to nominate a veteran in need.

Who can nominate, and who can be nominated

Anyone can submit a nomination. You do not have to be related to the veteran, and you do not have to be a Brazen Roofing customer. Neighbors, adult children, church members, VFW and American Legion posts, social workers, and case managers have all put names forward.

You can nominate yourself. Some of the strongest nominations we receive come from veterans who were reluctant to ask and finally did. There is nothing awkward about it on our end.

What makes a strong nomination

We read every submission. The ones that give us the clearest picture are the easiest to act on, so if you can, tell us more than just a name and address.

• Who they are. Branch, era of service, and anything about them you think we should know.
• What is happening with the roof. Active leaks, missing shingles, interior staining, buckets in the hallway, a tarp that has been up too long. Specifics help.
• Why the repair has not happened. Fixed income, a claim that was denied, a contractor who took a deposit and left, a spouse’s medical bills. This is the part that matters most.
• Photos, if you have them. A few phone pictures of the roof, the ceiling stains, or the attic tell us more than several paragraphs.
• How to reach them. And whether they know they are being nominated, so we handle the first call the right way.

Please do not send anything sensitive — no Social Security numbers, no VA claim numbers, no medical records. We do not need them and we do not want to be holding them.

What happens after you hit submit

The form goes to our team, not to an automated queue. We read nominations as they arrive and we follow up by phone or email — usually to ask a couple of questions, and always before anyone shows up at a veteran’s house.

We want to be straight with you about one thing: nominating someone is not the same as scheduling a roof. We receive more nominations than we can act on, and every situation needs a look at the actual roof before anyone can say what it needs. If we cannot take a nomination on, we will tell you rather than leave you wondering, and we will point you toward whatever else we know of.

We do not publish a closing date on this page. If timing is urgent for the person you have in mind — water coming through a ceiling, an elderly veteran living under a tarp — say so in the form, and contact us directly as well. An active leak is a repair conversation, not a nomination conversation, and those two things move at different speeds.

Other help worth knowing about

Whether or not a nomination goes anywhere, there are established programs that veterans and their families are often unaware of. These are federal, they are real, and they are worth checking.

• USDA Section 504 Home Repair. For very-low-income homeowners in eligible rural areas: repair loans up to $40,000 at a fixed 1% over 20 years, and for homeowners aged 62 and over, grants up to $10,000 to remove health and safety hazards — rising to $15,000 in presidentially declared disaster areas. A failing roof generally qualifies as a hazard. Combined loan and grant assistance can reach $50,000, or $55,000 in disaster areas.
• VA Specially Adapted Housing (SAH) and Special Home Adaptation (SHA) grants. These are adaptation grants for veterans with specific severe service-connected disabilities, not general repair funds — but for a veteran who qualifies, they cover substantial work on a permanent home. For FY 2026 the maximums are $126,526 (SAH) and $25,350 (SHA), with Temporary Residence Adaptation available at $50,961 and $9,100 respectively for veterans living temporarily in a family member’s home. Grant funds can be used across a lifetime up to six separate times.
• Your county veterans service officer. Every state has them, the service is free, and they know the local charitable and municipal repair funds that never appear in a search result.

If a veteran you know has storm damage rather than age-related wear, that is a different path entirely and usually a faster one. Our insurance claims guide explains how those claims work, and storm restoration covers the emergency side.

Why we do this

Roofs fail quietly. A veteran on a fixed income watches a stain on a bedroom ceiling grow for two years before it becomes an emergency, and by then the damage is not just shingles — it is decking, insulation, drywall and sometimes framing. The cost of waiting is always higher than the cost of acting, and the people least able to act are the ones who wait longest.

We cannot fix that at scale. We can fix one roof at a time, and we would rather do that than run another advertisement. Thank you for helping us find the people who need it.