Confidant Solutions and Our Military Kids Promote Family Protection While Supporting Military Kids

PR Log (Press Release) – Nov 02, 2009 – Washington, D.C. – Confidant Solutions Inc. and Our Military Kids today announced a joint promotion beginning on Veterans Day, November 11, 2009, and continuing through January 10, 2010. The campaign is aimed at raising funds for the grants that will be awarded during the month of April, 2010, in celebration of the Month of the Military Child.

Our Military Kids is a rapidly growing, innovative non-profit that addresses important gaps in support for the children of National Guard, Reserve, and severely injured military personnel. When a military parent is deployed overseas or recovering from severe injury at home, extracurricular activities become all the more important for keeping kids involved and on track. More than 85,000 children are affected by the deployment of a National Guard or Reserve parent and over 60% of these families live further than 25 miles from a military installation. Consequently, the numerous programs and support services provided on bases are not an option for many Guard and Reserve families. Our Military Kids enables Guard and Reserve children to participate in any extracurricular program that they choose, giving children the freedom to pursue their own interests in athletics, academics, or the arts in the community in which they live. Our Military Kids has awarded over 13,000 grants totaling $4.8 million and is growing as awareness of its mission spreads.  

Confidant Solutions Inc. provides an innovative, secure online technology that protects families by addressing an important gap in family information: that family members frequently do not know the information that would be needed in case of emergency, and have no easy, secure way to share such information.  Confidant makes available readily online information such as the location of vital documents, contact details for key people, the institutions where accounts and policies are held, and location of important objects, using an intuitive icon-driven interface with bank-standard security. Confidant is easier than an electronic vault because it does not require uploading or managing electronic documents; users simply enter relevant details such as document location and key contacts, and then share this critical information with designated "confidants" by granting them customized permissions to view selected details. Confidants can be added or deleted, or their access permissions changed, at any time.  

Confidant and Our Military Kids have collaborated because of the philosophical alignment of their missions: protecting families by providing innovative solutions to address important gaps.  “The American public recognizes the need to protect their own families, as well as the special needs of military families who are making sacrifices on behalf of all of us” says Confidant founder Samuel “Sandy” Haviland.  “We are very pleased to partner with Our Military Kids in promoting a way that families can serve both needs, by donating a portion of their Confidant subscriptions to help fund grants for military children.”   Mary Carolyn Voght, Director of Special Projects for Our Military Kids, says “It’s a great way to give back to those who are sacrificing to make our nation a better place for us all.”

The larger the number of Confidant subscriptions, the larger the number of grants that will be funded in April to support the children of deployed Guard and Reserve personnel and the children of severely injured service members.  Confidant can be found online at www.beconfidant.com and users can ensure support of the Our Military Kids grant program by entering the promotional code “OMK” at the time of their subscriptions.