Since 1998, ProCamps has developed, marketed, and operated sports camps and related events for professional athletes in the National Basketball Association, National Football League, Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, Professional Golfer’s Association, and Women’s Professional Soccer.

The Healthy Base Initiative began in August 2013 as a demonstration project that examines select military installations' efforts to support improved nutritional choices, increased physical activity, obesity reduction, and decreased tobacco use. HBI is also a part of Operation Live Well, which aims to make healthy living the easy choice and the social norm across the Department of Defense.

To millions of grocery shoppers throughout the Midwest, the name SpartanNash has little significance. However, for the grocery industry, the merger between Grand Rapids, MI-based Spartan Stores and Edina, MN-based Nash Finch Co. is very much the talk of the town.

Supermarket industry mergers are often fraught with turmoil. Uncertainty tends to be the norm with defection of executives, talent and unhappy customers to other chains and wholesalers commonplace. On the consumer level, favorite banners and brands often disappear creating a dissatisfaction that can topple the applecart. One only has to look at Safeway’s acquisition of Dominick’s or A&P’s takeover of Pathmark to see the downsides a merger can bring.

Yet the Spartan Stores/Nash Finch marriage—consummated in November—is shaping up to be a happy one, fitting together on so many levels. Prior to their engagement, both companies operated with Midwestern sensibilities­­—strong balance sheets, little debt, cautious growth and deep-rooted community involvement—that have endeared them to retail customers, suppliers and consumers. The companies fared well on paper, as well, with annual sales of $2.6 billion for Spartan Stores in 2013 and $4.8 billion for Nash Finch in 2012.

Officials at SpartanNash, now headquartered in the Grand Rapids, Michigan. suburb of Byron Township, stress that their new company will stick to those principles. There is little geographic overlap, so massive store closings should not be an issue. Favorite store banners and house brands are being maintained. And management promises that the focus will be on servicing and building up the independent grocer with a unique portfolio that is almost equally divided between legacy wholesale, corporate-owned stores and supplying military commissaries.

On behalf of the VA Boston Healthcare System System patients and staff, we would like to extend our appreciation to you for assuming responsibilities in the role of Coordinator of Donations for our 2014 New England Winter Sports Clinic. Your thoughtfulness reflects the concern that you feel for our Veterans and for the service they provided to all of us while in service to our country.

Without your support and the support of the donors you organized, we would be unable to provide for the types of activities and adaptive sports programs essential to the overall emotional and physical well-being of our veterans.

On behalf of the Fort Bragg Fisher House I would like to thank you for your generous gift of 15 commissary gift cards...Your commitment to helping our soldiers and their families in our community is sincerely appreciated.

Each year Fort Bragg Fisher House is able to continue providing a "home away from home" for our soldiers and their families as hey heal from the scars of war and unexpected illnesses. By providing a place where there is no worry as to "how much is it going to cost" and "how long can we stay", we have seen many lives changed for the better.
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Thanks again for your generous support of our efforts to provide a "home away from home".

Best Wishes,
Lorie Sutherland
Manager
Fort Bragg Fisher House

On behalf of the USO Kaiserslautern, I would like to extend our appreciation of your generous in-kind donation of Jimmy Dean Breakfast Bowls...Your donation will be used to directly assist U.S. service members and their families utilizing our USO Kaiserslautern centers located at the Warrior Center at Landstuhl, the CASF at Ramstein, the Deployment Processing Center (DPC) at ROB, the Joint Mobility Processing Center (JMPC) at Ramstein as well as the Ramstein Passenger Terminal. As you may know, several of our USO centers often accommodate service members and their families in this transition from a couple of hours up to several days. Donations like yours allow the USO to take proper care of America's sons and daughters as they transition through Germany and abroad.

Thank you for thinking of the USO Kaiserslautern. We truly appreciate your kindness and generosity.

Sincerely,
Konrad E. Braun
Area Director
USO Kaiserslautern

...we would like to thank you for your generous gift of food items in support of our Wounded Warrior efforts this year. As last year, we are joining other USPS units in trying to make the joys of boating available to our recovering Warriors...

...I would like you for your overwhelming assitance that was provided during the Army Ten-Miler. The time you volunteered at DeCA's booth and the in the Hooah Tent Zone enabled us to educate and inform thousands of active duty and dependent personnel about their commissary benefit.

Because of your enthusiasm and customer service skills we were able to effectively spread the word about the Commissary Rewards Card, the commissary savings and at the same time provide nutritional samples to all those who visited the tent.

Thank you sou much for volunteering, your in-kind contributions, and transportation services. We could not have done it without you.

Thank you so much for your generous gift of $2,000.00 on 12/28/2012 to Wounded Warrior Project. I cannot thank you enough for your support of the thousands of truly deserving servicemen and women who have been wounded in our current military conflicts.

Our work begins at the bedsides of injured warriors as they undergo rehabilitation and return to civilian life, but it certainly doesn't stop there. As a result of their injuries, these brave heroes will face greater challenges today finding assistance and jobs that will enable them to provide for their families. Their battle against the long-term effects of combat will continue throughout their lives
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Wounded Warrior Project is dedicated to assisting this new generation of injured heroes. These men and women who have served with honor deserve our respect and support. Again, I cannot thank you enough for your partnership with WWP.

Sincerely,
Steven Nardizzi
Executive Director
Wounded Warrior Project

Your willingness to support Special Olympics will also allow the organization to introduce more athletes to different events and help other sponsors think differently about the abilities as well as all of those we encounter in life. In doing so it helps us all be more inclusive, more accepting and provide a more understanding environment where we are all seen first for who we are and what we can contribute, instead of being identified by any disability that we may have.

Your partnership is very important to us and is deeply appreciated by all (of) those athletes who directly benefit from your contributions...I would like to thank you for your endorsement and support of Special Olympics of Virginia.

great event--great weather--great support from MDV-Nash Finch--(thanks) for supporting us in accomplishing our mission of enhancing the quality of life of US Armed Services personnel and their families.

The MDV Dan Daniel Memorial Golf Tournament dates have been recently announced. If you wish to participate in this event, please contact Paul Wehner for more information.

On 31 January 2012, MDV supported MCAS Cherry Point Commisary's Wacky Wednesday sales event. This is the second year that the event has been held, and this year proved even more successful than last year.

MDV Associates from many divisions, turned out to assist the commisary staff in hosting the event. With MDV's help, MCAS Cherry Point Commisary was able to turn the event into one of its most successful sales day ever; with thousands of dollars worth of savings and prizes being distributed to all who attended.

For more information about this event, please contact Jon Kitts or Ronette Malone.

Recently, MDV received a thank you letter from Linda Bashford Vaughan, the Executive Director of The Union Mission Ministries. She thanks MDV for the donation The Union Mission Ministries received from us during the recent holiday season. An excerpt of the thank you letter is included below:

Thank you for your very generous gift of 50-60 hams for our annual Christmas Basket Campaign. Your kindness helped us provide a little you in the lives of hundreds of homeless and hurting men, women and children this past Christmas.

With your support and the support of friends like you, we provided a Holiday dinner with all the fixings for almost 250 homeless men, women and children in our shelters, Christmas baskets to over 1,200 needy families in our community, and toys to 1,309 children, who without our help would not have received anything for Christmas.

Thank you again for your kindness and may God bless you and your families in the coming year.