A Funding Source for Veteran-Focused Nonprofits
For more than 30 years, ScerIS has delivered enterprise software solutions that help businesses and government agencies improve operations and reduce costs. We’ve always believed in driving value for our customers and in generating a fair profit doing so.
Now, we’ve chosen to put that value to work in a new way.
Through the Software for Healing Initiative, we connect with veteran-serving nonprofits whose introductions lead to new business. When those introductions result in software license sales, we pay the nonprofit a service fee – funding your mission while serving the objectives of businesses in your community.
We’re not changing what we do – we’re expanding the purpose behind why we do it.
Serving the Organizations That Serve Our Veterans
With a growing awareness of the challenges many veterans and their families face, we’ve found deeper purpose in our work.
ScerIS has committed sales of its core software platform, ETCETERA®, to support veteran service organizations. Through the Software for Healing Initiative, we provide a sustainable, IRS-compliant funding source that helps veteran-focused nonprofits enhance their revenue by connecting businesses in their community with technology that delivers real value.
“Meeting Eva Usadi, the Founder and Executive Director of Trauma and Resiliency Resources, changed everything. She opened our eyes to the scale of veteran suicides and other challenges they and their families face. That’s when we knew that servicing the community of nonprofits servicing the needs of our veterans had to become our mission.”
Jim Walckner
President & CEO, ScerIS, Inc.
How It Works
- Nonprofit organizations introduce businesses in their community to ScerIS.
- When a sale results from an introduction, the nonprofit receives a service fee equal to 100% of the net proceeds from the ETCETERA® software license fees collected.
- ScerIS works closely with each participating nonprofit to ensure compliance with IRS guidelines and that proceeds do not exceed allowable Unrelated Business Income (UBI) thresholds.
This is not a donation or grant. It’s a performance-based funding model that aligns the technology needs of local businesses with the funding goals of the nonprofit organization that introduced them.
Who Can Participate?
Any veteran-focused nonprofit organization including those supporting mental health, homelessness, housing, addiction recovery, moral injury recovery, suicide prevention or reintegration may participate. If your organization has relationships with businesses, government agencies, or other groups in your community that might benefit from automation, document management or enterprise task and workflow solutions, this program can create newfound revenue tied directly to those connections and is accomplished without the need for a donation.
Where This Journey Began: TRR
The first nonprofit to benefit from the Software for Healing Initiative is Trauma and Resiliency Resources, Inc. (TRR), the organization behind Warrior Camp®, one of the most effective suicide prevention programs in the country for veterans and active-duty service members.
Founded in 2004 by Eva Usadi, TRR provides a clinically grounded healing experience for veterans and active-duty members suffering from combat-related trauma, PTSD, and military moral injury. Offered at no cost to participants, Warrior Camp® has delivered a 99.4% post program survival rate.
TRR needs millions in committed support to expand their services, including the development of a 226-acre permanent healing retreat and the ongoing delivery of programs multiple times a year to meet national demand. That’s where this initiative comes in.
Through the Software for Healing Initiative, ScerIS is acting as the lead outreach and sales engine on their behalf with the goal of providing TRR with an UBI compliant, unrestricted funding source that scales with the growth of business purchases aligned with TRR’s mission.
For other veteran-focused nonprofits, participation in the Initiative is self-driven: they facilitate connections, and we provide funding in return. But for TRR, we are driving the mission forward, because their life-saving mission has become ours.
Why This Matters
ScerIS believes in aligning its technology with a higher purpose: helping those who served. By transforming enterprise software transactions into mission-sustaining funding streams, we empower veteran-focused nonprofits to grow their impact without chasing grants or navigating traditional fundraising hurdles. This is spending that businesses do that’s helping fund programs serving our veterans.
How To Get Started
Interested organizations can review our Software for Healing contract by clicking here.
If your organization is interested in participating in the Software for Healing Initiative, let’s talk. Fill out the form below to start the process.