Wake Foundation

27/12/2025

Here are the winners for the Christmas Eve Raffle. Thanks to everyone that bought tickets supporting veterans.

24/12/2025

The Christmas Hams turned out great.

03/12/2025

💥 We're so excited to announce our entertainers for the 2026 Valentines for Veterans concert!
The concert will take place on Thursday, February 12th at the Black River Coliseum in Poplar Bluff, MO. This concert is FREE to veterans and their families! We want to thank you for your service and sacrifice and allow you to enjoy an evening of fun.
Tickets can be picked up starting the first week of January at any of these locations:
John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in the Volunteer Room
Black River Coliseum
Stars and Stripes Museum in Bloomfield
The Wake Foundation headquarters (65 CR 527, Poplar Bluff)

We are SO excited for this year's Valentines for Veterans concert and can't wait to see you there! 🇺🇸

*Tickets are NOT for sale. The sale of tickets for this concert is illegal.
*Must present military ID when picking up tickets.

28/10/2025

We are doing turkeys and Boston butts for Thanksgiving. Tickets are now available. We will be cooking Tuesday, Wensday and thursday thanksgiving week. You can call to pay and place and order at 573-281-6165. Thursday morning we will stop cooking at 11am.

09/09/2025

It's that time of year, folks! Please help us make a veteran's day. We deliver over 1500 Christmas stocking to veterans in VA Homes and nursing homes all across the midwest from Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, and more.

You donation helps us! You can easily donate through our PayPal Giving Fund account at paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1513458, drop off a check at the Wake Foundation in Poplar Bluff or mail a check to 65 County Rd. 527, Poplar Bluff, Missouri 63901. Please write Christmas Stockings in the memo. The deadline to donate is December 1, 2025.

Thank you for your support!

04/09/2025

Attention National Guard Veterans, please make plans to attend this free breakfast!

01/09/2025

27/08/2025

This is the list of all of the winners in today’s raffle.

04/07/2025

Wake Foundation wishes everyone a happy and safe 4th of July!

01/07/2025

As most of you know I spend a lot of time traveling. Many of you have commented on you never know where I might be or show up but most of the time it’s either with my family or veterans. I never know a lot of the time myself. Tonight I’m sitting in an ICU room with a gentle men in Southeast Mo that I have never met until tonight. I know very little about him with the the exception that he is not expected to live through the night.

In his room it is dark and once in a while I hear the monitor going off that gives his blood pressure and heart readings. The only other sounds is him struggling to breathe. Two other things about him that I will share is that he is homeles a VETERAN. It makes you wonder what kind of life he has had since he got out of the military to have no family to be by his side as he takes his final breath.
Being a veteran makes him my brother. Being a minister most of my life I have preached a many of funerals and have stood beside the bed of many as they took their last breath but never a homeless veteran. I ask you tonight to pray for this soldier that as he leaves this life that it is peaceful and that he finds rest on the other side. No veteran should ever die alone. May God Bless.

Robert Wake President of The Wake Fnd

15/06/2025

Happy 250th Birthday to the United States Army.