We invite you to choose where you would like your gift to make the most impact:
Unrestricted gifts support our various patriotic, educational, and volunteer programs, as well as the other initiatives listed below. Your unrestricted gift will be put to work where it is most needed.
Our next marquee exhibit, Virginia’s Missing in Action: The Search Continues will open on National POW/MIA Recognition Day, in September of 2025. This exhibit will highlight the 1,200 Virginians still listed as Missing in Action and the continuing mission to try to identify them and bring them home.
This exhibit will feature photos, letters, and other archival materials related to those Virginians still Missing in Action, as well as detailed biographies of select individuals. Additionally, the exhibit will explore the scientific process behind searching for and recovering the remains of those individuals by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
Click HERE to learn more about the exhibition.
For more than two decades, the Virginia War Memorial has collected veteran oral histories. These interviews, more than 1,300, have been collected in a variety of formats. One of our featured objectives at the Virginia War Memorial Foundation is to digitize, transcribe, and share these stories.
Thanks to support from Virginia Humanities and the Alfred I. duPont Foundation, we are well on our way to completing digitization of these interviews. A gift towards our Veteran Oral History initiative will support our next steps of transcribing and hosting our catalog of oral histories online for students, teachers, and researchers of all ages.
The Mighty Pen Project offers intensive writing classes to help and encourage veterans to commit to paper their memories and reflections that tell the larger story of American military service around the world.
The Virginia War Memorial Foundation has expanded on the Mighty Pen Project to include War in Pieces, a festival of one-act veteran-penned plays. Now in its third year, the festival provides
students with the opportunity to see their written narratives come to life through theatrical productions.
A gift towards the Mighty Pen Project allows Virginia veterans to participate at no cost to them.
Strong educators are the backbone of a successful community. Teacher Institutes at the Virginia War Memorial provide educators with multiple seminars that cover a variety of topics related to Virginia history, and they are offered to educators at no cost.
These seminars include the use of materials from the Memorial’s archive and often feature discussions with veterans who lived to experience our nation’s conflicts firsthand. Institutes also incorporate lectures featuring expert scholars in military history, education, and writing. Teachers who attend our Summer Institutes not only benefit from the material provided, but they are eligible for recertification points towards licensure renewal.
