A mobility scooter can help a veteran leave the house. But what happens next can change their life.

For many veterans living with limited mobility, the world slowly gets smaller.

A trip to the grocery store becomes difficult. Going to a grandchild’s baseball game feels impossible. Traveling, visiting old friends, attending a reunion, or returning to a place that holds decades of memories can become something they simply stop imagining.

At the Patriotic Kenny Foundation, we provide mobility scooters to veterans to reduce isolation and restore independence.

But we kept hearing something after veterans received their scooters:

“I can do things again.”

That is where Because of the Scooter began.

The scooter is not the finish line.

It is the beginning.

Because of the Scooter is our bucket list initiative that helps veterans use their restored mobility to experience something meaningful that once felt out of reach. A bucket list wish.

Sometimes it is a big adventure.

Sometimes it is deeply personal.

It might mean returning to the military base where they served decades ago. Seeing the ocean again. Attending a reunion. Taking the trip they kept putting off. Visiting a place connected to someone they lost. Standing beside an aircraft they once worked on. Going fishing with their family. Taking their grandchildren somewhere special.

The experience is different for every veteran.

The reason behind it is the same:

Their world became bigger again.

This started with Kenny.

Patriotic Kenny Foundation was inspired by Kenny Jary, an 84 year old Navy veteran whose bright red mobility scooter gave him something much bigger than transportation.

It gave him independence.

And Kenny did what Kenny always did. He turned that independence into connection.

His personality and story eventually reached millions of people online, but the heart of it was always remarkably simple: Kenny understood how much it meant to be able to get out, show up, meet people, and keep living.

That belief became our mission.

Today, we give mobility scooters to veterans who need them, without forcing them through endless red tape.

Because of the Scooter carries Kenny's legacy one step further.

We do not only want to ask:

“Where can this veteran go now?”

We want to ask:

“What have they been waiting to do?”

Your donation can make the answer possible.

When you donate to Because of the Scooter, you are helping fund meaningful experiences for veteran scooter recipients.

Your gift may help cover transportation, airfare, lodging, accessible accommodations, tickets, equipment, meals, or the other pieces required to turn a veteran's idea into an actual experience.

A gift of $25 or $50 can help with the smaller details that make an experience possible.

A gift of $100 or $250 can help fund transportation, meals, tickets, or accessible accommodations.

A gift of $500 or $1,000 can become a significant part of a veteran's experience.

And a gift of $2,500, $5,000, $10,000 or more can help us say yes to the kinds of experiences that once seemed impossible.

Companies, organizations, families, and individuals can also choose to fund or sponsor a veteran's experience.

Imagine being part of this phone call.

We call a veteran who has already received a mobility scooter from the Patriotic Kenny Foundation.

We ask them a question they probably were not expecting:

“Now that you have your scooter, what is something you thought you would never get to do again?”

And then we get to figure out how to make it happen.

That is what you are funding.

Not simply a trip.

Not simply a ticket.

Not simply another nonprofit program.

You are helping give a veteran another story to tell.

A story that begins:

“Because of the scooter, I got to…”

Help us finish that sentence for as many veterans as possible.

"Because of the Scooter" A Bucket List Initiative