Sponsor & funder brief
Six questions. One page. No deck required.
You are deciding whether this is worth your time. This page answers what we do, who we serve, what we are building, why it matters, what we need, and what your money buys — then points you to the detail.
Lighthouse Community Development Corporation · 501(c)(3) · Greensburg, Louisiana
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Parish first — St. Helena
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Pilot parishes
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Parishes the system supports
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Organizations in the ecosystem
1 · What we do
We find rural Louisiana veterans who are not being reached, and we close the gap between them and what they are already owed.
Benefits navigation, assessment, case management and referral — delivered where the veteran is, not where the office is. The Mobile Triage Outreach Cavalry (M-TOC™) takes services into parishes with no VA presence. Housing, workforce and enterprise programs sit behind it.
2 · Who we serve
Military veterans living in rural Louisiana, and their families.
Every service era, from Vietnam-era veterans in their seventies to post-9/11 veterans in their twenties. Men and women. Racially diverse, because rural Louisiana is. Many have mobility limitations. Many live alone, an hour or more from the nearest VA facility — which is precisely why a mobile unit exists.
3 · What we are building
M-TOC™
Mobile Triage Outreach Cavalry — the unit that carries assessment, navigation and referral into parishes that have no other door.
VI-PAR™
Veteran Impact, Performance, Accountability & Reporting — the system that tracks every referral to an outcome and publishes what happened.
CAPE™
Comprehensive Assessment, Planning & Empowerment — the framework behind each veteran's plan of care.
SEISMIC™
Social Enterprise Incubator and Support Management — capacity building for rural social entrepreneurs and small nonprofits.
4 · Why it matters
Rural veterans do not fail to claim benefits because the benefits are not there. They fail because nobody comes.
Distance, no transport, no broadband, no local service officer, and a hard reluctance to ask. The organizations meant to reach them are regional, not rural. We are built the other way around: parish-deep first, statewide second.
5 · What we need
| Need | What it funds | Status |
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| M-TOC™ operations | Getting the unit into parishes on a published schedule | Sponsorship open |
| Case management capacity | Qualified staff to carry veterans from intake to resolution | Sponsorship open |
| Outreach & presence | Tables, materials and partner events across eight parishes | Sponsorship open |
| VI-PAR™ reporting | The evidence system that proves the work to you and to the state | In development |
| Rural enterprise programs | Bootcamps and technical assistance for rural nonprofits | In design |
6 · What sponsorship buys
Four levels, from community partner to legacy investor. Each is tied to a specific piece of the work, not to a logo placement.
Funder access to detail. Program documentation, the operational plan and the full library are available to prospective funders on request. We issue an access code rather than publishing internal operating detail openly — ask and we will send you one.
On our numbers. Where our site shows program figures drawn from pilot or demonstration data, they are labeled as such. We will not put unverified numbers in front of a funder. When VI-PAR™ reporting is live, you will get audited outcomes — and until then you will get an honest description of what is built and what is not.