"Honoring Their Sacrifice. Protecting Their Legacy"
Fallen Heroes Family Lifeline
About
Our Origin Story
Fallen Heroes Family Lifeline was created in honor and loving memory of Army Private Kimberly Copeland, killed March 31, 2017 - at the age of 21. She joined the military with a passion for protecting others and a love for our country. Her commanding officers all said that Kim was only in competition with herself, constantly pushing to improve. But, she always had an intense focus on protecting everyone around her, helping them to reach their potential. It is with this spirit that we approach our mission, every single day.
Following Kim's death, her family found themselves in an endless circle of frustration in addition to the pain of loss. Literally everything that could go wrong did go wrong. The military provided very limited, conflicting and incorrect information, blaming everyone else for the mistakes and added problems. After 2 years of getting no help or answers, running up the chain of command multiple times, they were told time limitations were exceeded and the family was basically out of luck. They felt forgotten and dejected.
Our Founder (and Kimberly's father), Todd Copeland, refused to give up and started shifting all of his attention to finding his own solutions. As he found other families in need, he was compelled to help them. The more he could help, the more it drove him to do more, broadening databases to include hundreds of resources - military, civilian, private, corporate, charitable and more. Three years after his own loss - he formalized it in the creation of Fallen Heroes Family Lifeline - and was approved for the 501c3 status.
We must do everything we can to honor the fallen
and to protect the legacy...the FAMILY they leave behind.
Our Mission
Fallen Heroes Family Lifeline mission is very simple - to protect the families of our fallen heroes, restoring balance and stability to their lives. Our goal is to never let a single family feel unimportant, forgotten, lost or ignored. These families deserve no less than our best. ​
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Join us in our mission. Be the difference.
Mere words cannot repay the debt they have paid for us.
We MUST take action and honor their sacrifice.
Our Partnerships
Fallen Heroes Family Lifeline could do what we do without the many friends and partnership we have developed over many years. We have no ego. Our end-goal is always to provide the best and most appropriate assistance possible. We love to work with any group or organization that helps us to do just that.
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Government - Military - Corporate - Private - Religious
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The number of partnerships we have is too numerous to list them all. But our very first grants came from a few of them. Today, we receive a steady and growing flow of referrals between all of us. We work together - and separately - to help as many families as we can. We will be enhancing our website over the next year to include a list of our top partners and donors.