About the Mission Miles Campaign
For Donors & Sponsors
Mission Miles is Project Recover's largest fundraising event of the year, and your support makes it possible.
Whether you're here because you believe in bringing home America's missing-in-action service members, or because you're cheering on a specific Mission Miles team member, thank you. Your gift goes directly toward the work of finding them.
Where your support goes
Throughout September, our supporters log miles to honor America's MIAs and the families still waiting for answers. But the miles are really a vehicle. What they're raising support for is the real work: research, search missions, documentation missions, and recovery missions carried out around the world, all aimed at returning our missing service members to their families and their country.
America made a promise to every person who serves: no one gets left behind. Your donation helps Project Recover keep that promise.
What your gift makes possible
Search missions take years of research and planning before a team ever sets foot in the field. Sponsorship and donor support fund every stage of that process, from the archival research that narrows down a location, to the fieldwork that recovers evidence, to the work of returning a service member's remains to their family.
Why this event, specifically
Mission Miles is grounded in six values that shape everything Project Recover does:
- Respect — for the sacrifice of America's MIAs, for the families still waiting, and for each other.
- Responsibility — Project Recover takes on the complex work of finding and bringing home our MIAs. Donors and sponsors share in that responsibility by making the work possible.
- Perseverance — This mission takes decades of persistence. Every gift helps sustain it for the long haul.
- Collaboration — Our success comes from partnership: with donors, sponsors, and everyone who contributes to this mission.
- Education — Mission Miles introduces more Americans to a mission most don't know is still ongoing. Your support helps that reach grow.
- Gratitude — For the lives we live today because of what our service members sacrificed.
Interested in sponsoring Mission Miles?
Sponsorship is a way to put your organization's name behind a cause with national reach and a deeply personal impact. Reach out below to learn about sponsorship levels and benefits.
Thank you for supporting this event and Project Recover. You'll find more information in the links below, and please reach out if you have any questions.
Very respectfully,
Christian Malerba
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