Standing For Our Soldiers - Move America Forward

We Are Move America Forward

Move America Forward (MAF) is the largest grassroots pro-troop organization in the United States, committed to supporting the brave men and women of our military and their efforts to defeat terrorism. As a not-for-profit charitable organization, we are dedicated to preserving America’s heritage of freedom and liberty. MAF was formed in early 2004 by the Honorable Howard Kaloogian and acclaimed media personality, Melanie Morgan.

Since its inception, MAF has organized several national tours, hosting rallies to support the troops in cities across the country and produced many television and radio advertisements. We have organized several trips to Iraq and Guantanamo Bay and pioneered the “Troopathon,” a first of it’s kind program combining television, radio, and print media stars that raised over $2 Million for our troops in the first two years we’ve done it. Through our care package program, we have sent over 168 TONS of care packages to Iraq and Afghanistan —all to support our troops.

We are continuing our efforts to support the troops with a new Troopathon for 2010: "Standing for Our Soldiers."

Meet Our Team:

	Melanie Morgan – Executive Producer, Main Host
	Debbie Lee – Spokesperson and Military Liason
	Shawn Callahan – Producer
	Sal Russo – Chief Strategist
	Jim Dutra – Chief Coordinator
	Douglas Lorenz – Technical Supervisor
	Levi Russell – Press Secretary and Guest Coordinator Contact Levi: levi at frontlinestrat.com
	Danny Gonzalez – Communications Director Contact Danny: danny at moveamericaforward.org
	Adam Stern – Program Developer Contact Adam: adam at moveamericaforward.org
	Katie O’Malley – Fundraising / Development

Our Accomplishments:

Sent a delegation of radio talk show hosts to Iraq for the "Voices of Soldiers" Truth Tour. With MAF’s Co-Chairs Howard Kaloogian and Melanie Morgan as leaders, this delegation of journalists interviewed soldiers so they could tell the American people about their successes in the fight against terrorism.
Sponsored the "Gold Star Parents to Iraq" trip in which parents of U.S. soldiers killed in the war could see first-hand the country where their sons and daughters made the ultimate sacrifice.
Produced and broadcasted dozens of national television and radio commercials that advocate support for our troops serving heroically in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 100 million Americans have seen our ads.
Traveled across America on the “Honoring our Heroes at the Holidays” tour which collected over 200,000 Christmas, Hanukkah and holiday cards for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our MAF delegation went to Iraq and personally hand-delivered many of the cards and saw firsthand the success of the “surge.”
Started the "Coffee, Cookies, Gatorade, and Beef Jerky for Our Troops" program to send care packages to our military men and women. To date we have sent over 168 tons of premium fresh ground coffee, cookies, beef jerky, and Gatorade. The packages include a personal message of support from the sponsoring family back home.
Launched the Candy Diplomacy program in partnership with the Jelly Belly Company, sending 2 oz. bags of jellybeans to U.S. troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bags display the following message in English, Arabic, and Pashto, “A gift from the American people in hope that your country will one day enjoy the freedom and opportunities that we have in the United States.”
Broadcasted our first annual troopathon “From the Front Lines” via webcast in June 2008 – the most successful fundraising web telethon to date, and followed up in 2009 with another troopathon “Honor Their Service”. Over 2 years our troopathons raised over $2 Million to send care packages to U.S. troops. We have been lucky to have the help of Michelle Malkin, Andrew Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Ann Coulter, John Bolton, Jon Voight, Kevin Farley, Gary Sinise, General David Petraeus and many others.

Move America Forward is a registered 501(c)(3). Contributions are tax deductible.

What is a Troopathon?

The concept behind Troopathon is not a new idea, put on a Jerry Lewis style telethon to benefit a worthy cause, but a Troopathon is groundbreaking and innovative in that we bring together famous celebrities from radio, television, movie stars, musicians, journalists, and more to create a one-of-a-kind event with one purpose - to support our troops on the front lines in the war on terror and honor their service and sacrifice for our nation.

The goal of Troopathon is simple, send care packages to our troops, as many as we can get sponsored in a single 8-hour show. In our first year (2008) our inaugural program brought in over $1.5 million for care packages for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was the single largest shipment of care packages ever recorded. Over the two years we have done it, our innovative webcasts have brought over $2 Million for our troops. Since our organization began sending care packages in 2006, we've sent over 168 TONS of high quality beef jerky, Gatorade, Oreo cookies and gourmet coffee to our troops, and that's just the beginning!

What makes troopathon such a success, and an exciting event for our troops and our supporters, is the star power we bring out! In our Troopathons we've been proud to have such participants as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Laura Ingraham, Gary Sinise, Jon Voight, Kevin Farley, John Ondrasik of the band Five for Fighting, Oliver North, President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Dr. David Horowitz, Carrie Prejean and many many more!

In order to bring all these celebrities and VIPs together on the same program in one 8 hour show we utilize the latest cutting edge web-technology. We have partnered with the breakout success startup company Usteam.TV for two years in a row, who provide the technical wizardry that makes the Troopathon a success. Thanks to the technical expertise of our staff and Ustream.TV, we're able to bring all our guests together on the same broadcast, despite their busy schedules, and broadcast the troopathon to hundreds of thousands of viewers worldwide. Even our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan who are lucky enough to have internet access love to log on and see the outpouring of support for themselves! Each troopathon we make contact with our troops in Iraq and this year we will do the same!

Our third annual Troopathon, titled "Standing for Our Soldiers" promises to be the best yet! Keep coming back and checking troopathon.org as further details will be forthcoming!