Category: GCVF in the News

By Phillip Palmer, Anchor | ABC7/KABC-TV Los Angeles VENTURA, Calif. (KABC) — The Gold Coast Veterans Foundation in Ventura County has an ambitious goal: to end homelessness and anything else that causes suffering to our vets. Founded in 2006 as a way for the 45,000 military veterans in Ventura County to learn about benefits all in […]

By Mike Harris, VC Star Reporter One of the Gold Coast Veterans Foundation's many goals is a lofty one: to end veterans homelessness in Ventura County. Toward that end, the Camarillo-based nonprofit is planning a 20-acre "Veterans Village" in unincorporated Oak View. The complex will provide homeless vets with interim "bridge" housing such as huts [...]

Source: CBS Los Angeles from March 9, 2021

Community will give shelter, support to homeless vets By Brooke Stanley | brooke@theacorn.com Bob Harris, who’d recently lost his veteran father to the effects of post-traumatic stress, and Rafael Stoneman, a formerly homeless Army veteran, stood in Ojai Presbyterian Church and prayed. It was Dec. 8, 2019, and the two men, who both work at Gold […]

Legendary announcer records narration on Christmas Eve to house homeless veterans At age 93, baseball legend Vin Scully completed an emergency recording session on Christmas Eve, to provide narration for a highly anticipated new veteran housing initiative. The game’s longest-serving announcer volunteered his instantly recognizable golden voice to introduce Gold Coast Veterans Foundation’s ground breaking […]