Hyperbaric access
Chamber and recovery therapy for those who need it, at no cost to them. The same door that opened this story, held open for the next person.
Heal. Empower. Rise Again.
Restore to Rise
Restoring the body. Rebuilding the spirit. Rising together.
Health, wellness and healing alternatives, given free to those who need and deserve them, and could not otherwise reach them.
01The Origin
Every cause begins somewhere. This one began with a friend.
Paul. A military veteran, and one of Richard's closest friends. A man who carried more than most of us will ever be asked to carry.
The road back ran through a hyperbaric chamber, and through the people who hold that door open.
America's Mighty Warriors, founded by Debbie "Mama" Lee, whose son Marc was the first Navy SEAL to fall in Ramadi. They fund hyperbaric oxygen therapy for veterans living with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, and they hold themselves to a rare standard of transparency: nearly every dollar given reaches the mission.
"That kind of got me back on track, by getting him on track."
Richard Vietor, founder
Helping one friend heal became the work of helping many. Restore to Rise exists to hold that door open wider.
From one friendship, a promise: no one restores alone.
02The Work
Restoration, given freely
Providing health, wellness and healing alternatives, free, to individuals who need and deserve them but could not otherwise obtain them.
Mentoring, guiding, and giving people a hand up, never just a hand out.
The work starts simple, and it starts now: real therapy, real resources, real people beside you.
Wellness alternatives
Holistic health and healing resources, given free to recipients. Body, mind and spirit, treated like they belong to one person.
Mentoring and guiding
Someone who has walked the hard road, walking beside you. Help taking your own calculated risks, at your own pace.
In time
The vision reaches further: a place of restoration to give from, and chambers to give away. Phase one comes first, and it comes free.
Be the tugboat that pulls, not the lighthouse that watches.
The line the work is built on
See who this helps
03Impact
Who we lift
This page will never carry a number we cannot stand behind. As the first recipients are funded and the figures are verified, they will be stated here plainly, the way the people we serve deserve.
Warriors and neighbors funded through therapy
Verified figure, to be published
Of every gift reaching the people we serve
Stated plainly, once counted and verified
Our standard
Real numbers only, published as they are verified. Nothing rounded up, nothing borrowed. The people this work serves have been promised enough.
04Get Involved
Rise with us
No countdown clocks. No guilt. The story you just read is the whole pitch. If it moved you, there are three quiet ways to stand in it.
Give
Fund a warrior's restoration. One hundred percent of every gift goes to those we serve. Richard covers every administrative cost himself, so your gift never pays for overhead.
GiveGet involved
Volunteer, partner, or refer someone who needs this. If you know a veteran or a neighbor carrying too much, that referral may be the whole reason this page found you.
Reach outStay close
Updates as the work grows. No noise, no asks in your inbox every week. Just what the mission did with what it was given.
Thank you. We will write when there is something worth saying.
Every dollar given is a dollar given forward. The founder pays the org's own way.
Restore to Rise is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
A note on the founder
Founded and self-funded by Richard Vietor, to pay his lessons and blessings forward.
His goal is for this work to stand on its own, and he prefers the background. The cause is the star here. For the man and the long road behind him, his story lives on its own ground.
The fuller story richardvietor.comRestore to Rise
Restoring the body. Rebuilding the spirit. Rising together.
Scottsdale, Arizona
Restore to Rise is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. One hundred percent of every gift goes to those we serve. The founder covers every administrative cost himself.
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Founded and self-funded by Richard Vietor.
Founded and self-funded by Richard Vietor.