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The Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund (IADIF) was created in 2006 to provide funding to nonprofit organizations that offer direct services and other forms of assistance to American military personnel and/or their families who have been impacted by deployment to Iraq and/or Afghanistan.
A special initiative of the California Community Foundation, IADIF grants were administered independently and grant proposals are by invitation only. In the spring of 2009, all of the IADIF funds were allocated, and further applications for funding are not being accepted.
Read Supporting Our Troops, Veterans and Their Families, a CCF report about the lessons learned and future opportunities for philanthropy. Read the abridged version.
Read the Invisible Wounds of War, a report released in April 2008 by the RAND Corporation and funded by a grant from the Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund. The study focuses on the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and traumatic brain injury on military personnel of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). For more information about the RAND report, contact the RAND Corporation at (703) 413-1100.
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So, a little bit of good, perhaps, and a whole lot of lefty bullshit.