Here are 4 of 10 projects you can do.
- Marbles for Remembering.
Give "Marbles for Remembering" to soldiers and their families. - Design and Sign:
Design banner to send one or more deployed West Virginians. We will have it made, and you and your group will sign it before we send it. - Theme Song:
Ask for a CD to learn our theme song. Tell school bands about it. Sing it as veterans return home. - CD for Remembering:
Make a CD with a veteran or veterans. Two people who talk of memories that will make them feel the promise of home.
"VITAL at HOME"
Here are 2 of 8 projects veterans lead, with your help.
- National Monument for Mothers:
In 2006, Woody Williams, West Virginia’s only living Medal of Honor recipient, began to hope that West Virginia will have a national monument for mothers that would be led, in part, by veterans. John Haulotte is an Iraq–War veteran who leads this effort. Ask how you can help. - Youth as Ambassadors:
Veterans will teach young adults who expect to leave the state how to 1) deal with stigma about West Virginia, 2) show our state’s very great value, and 3) come back to the state to help in very great work that nonprofits, including ourselves, are doing.
HELPing
Here are 2 of 6 ways you can help veterans, soldiers, and their families.
- Tell us what veterans need:
Take a survey on veterans needs and on your solid ideas to help them. - Tell us what others (nonprofits, individuals) are doing to help:
Many people and organizations are trying to help. Who are they and what barriers and successes are they finding?
 West Virginia State University ROTC Students signing a banner designed by Professor Jack Skeens' advertising class at West Virginia State University Community and Technical College, Institute, WV |
 The Vet Center in Charleston, with another banner. |
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A Richwood artist suggested "Design and Sign." The steps are: 1) A group makes a design for a banner, 2) We have a 8 or 10 foot banner made (with grommets, so it can be hung), 3) We return to the community and people sign it. 4) We get the banner to either one person or a group of West Virginians in the miltary. |
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Thanks! Plain and Simple is a West Virginia–based non–profit organization which aims to remind active–duty troops that the people of this great state care about their welfare and appreciate their service. Through this organization, West Virginians unite to show they value service men and women before, during and after their military experience. TPS hopes to help veterans be VITAL at HOME by guiding them to develop projects that make an impact on people in their home state. A major activities of this organization is to offer the distinct opportunity to Global War on Terrorism veterans to continue their service as civilian leaders in West Virginia.
Volunteer Opportunities include:
- West Virginia Non–Profit Outreach – Thanks! Plain and Simple wants to identify opportunities for returning veterans to continue to serve our nation with the objectives of developing human capital in West Virginia as a model for America.
- VITAL at HOME Volunteer – Veterans Initiating Teamwork and Leadership is for new veterans who want to return home and apply their leadership, training and motivation to benefiting West Virginia’s people from the grass–roots up.
- "We Value You!" Program Volunteer – This initiative provides outreach to West Virginia veterans through a variety of smaller projects that allow citizens to participate in showing respect for our soldiers, veterans and those ROTC training.
- Research to Build Human Capital. TPS has projects ready to adapt military training to "the home front" by researching the feasibility of projects that build on people’s potential.
- National Monument Development Researcher – An ongoing TPS project is an attempt to lay the groundwork for a national monument in West Virginia.
Fellowships are available part–time and full–time for a duration of 14 weeks or longer. Arrangements may be made to meet special requirements or availability.
Contact Us to find out more information on how you can Take Part:
Thanks! Plain and Simple, Inc.
5313 Carleton Ct, Suite F
Charleston, WV 25313
Anne Montague,
Executive Director
(304) 776–4743
thanksplainandsimple@earthlink.net
www.thanksplainandsimple.org