OpsLens Deck of 52 Most Wanted Post 9/11 Frontline Leaders
In 2018, as a spin-off and salute to the original 2003 deck of 52 Most Wanted playing cards, let’s honor post 9/11 frontline leaders here at home. Once a week, for 52 weeks this year, OpsLens will post a card highlighting one of the 52 Most Wanted Post 9/11 Frontline Leaders. You’ll learn the top facts about their business or organization, as well as why they made the list, which comes down to impact, scalability, health, and unique value proposition.
I encourage you to look for these weekly updates, share the card with your network, and support or buy the products and services they offer. See the 52 Most Wanted Post 9/11 Frontline Leaders launch story here.
7 of Diamonds| CreatiVets
It’s one thing when you discover a life-changing outlet that helps you heal from trauma. It’s another when you find a way to share that with others so they can benefit too. Former U.S. Marine Richard Casper launched CreatiVets in 2013 upon his graduation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). His goal is to offer opportunities of relief and healing for the men and women who have sacrificed so much for our country. The mission of CreatiVets is to use various forms of art, including songwriting, visual arts, music, and creative writing, to help disabled veterans cope with service-related trauma (i.e., post-traumatic stress, or PTS) by fostering self-expression in a way that allows them to transform their stories of trauma and struggle into an art form that can inspire and motivate continued healing. And they partner with the best creatives in the industry, from top-notch, Grammy winning songwriters in Nashville to a summer session at one of the world’s most prestigious art institutes, SAIC (not to mention, they also work with the #1 public art school in the country, VCU). Richard is unrelenting in his passion to bring art to the veteran community, and was recently recognized by TIME magazine as a 2017 Next Generation Leader.
CreatiVets is a frontline leader that should be on your list of most wanted nonprofits to support in 2018.
Frontline Leader (Founder(s)): Richard Casper.
Name of Company/Organization: CreatiVets, founded 2013.
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, with a summer session program that takes place at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).
Post 9/11 Service Connection: U.S. Marine Corps (Infantry).
Tours of Duty: Iraq (Fallujah), 2007.
One sentence tagline & mission statement: Did I just art?
Website: https://www.creativets.org/
