Every charity needs donations. Color For A Cause© is a public service project of Volvo Rents equipment rental stores designed to serve that purpose. Volvo Rents stores are painting their machinery with the color of their chosen charity and donating a percentage of that machine’s rentals to the charity.

About Homes For Our Troops

Homes for Our Troops (HFOT) is a national non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2004. They are strongly committed to helping those who have selflessly given to our country and have returned home with serious disabilities and injuries since September 11, 2001. It is their honor to assist severely injured veterans and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and to coordinate the process of building a specially adapted home that provides maximum freedom of movement and the ability to live more independently. The homes provided by Homes for Our Troops are given at NO COST to the veterans they serve.

The Urgent Need

Many veterans are returning home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with life-altering injuries sustained while defending our country overseas. The injuries include the loss of one or more limbs, varying levels of paralysis and traumatic brain injury. Some veterans also return with blindness, deafness, or with severe burns. These men and women must now re-learn skills often taken for granted, like walking, getting dressed, eating and talking. They may be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of their lives or may need to utilize a wheelchair when they are unable to walk on their prosthetics. Their homes are no longer a place of comfort, but rather room after room filled with barriers that make the simplest tasks difficult, if not impossible. These American heroes need specially adapted homes that will allow them to regain their independence and help them and their families rebuild their lives. It’s the least Homes for Our Troops can do.

What is a Specially Adapted Home?

Homes for Our Troops specially adapted homes go beyond ADA compliance. They feature single-level, open floor plans, roll-in showers, roll-under cooktops and sinks, and other standard accessibility items. Depending on the severity of the injury suffered by the veteran, the homes may also include specialized items including lift systems, keyless door entry, and voice activation controls.

Key fact:

An eligible veteran or service member may receive a Veterans Administration Specially Adapted Housing Grant up to a maximum amount of $63,780. Homes for Our Troops assistance covers all costs over and above this grant and they work closely with the VA to ensure that when their resources are combined, the home is provided at no cost to the Veteran.

Join our Volunteer Professional Trades Team!

The generosity of their donors, corporate sponsors and thousands of volunteers in communities around the country allow Homes for Our Troops to give freedom and independence back to several severely injured veterans through the gift of specially adapted homes. As they work towards completing our 100th home, they focus on the future. HFOT must keep their promise and re-double their efforts to continue their commitment to the next one hundred veterans in need.



This is our call to action to you:

Show your true colors

Align yourself with a well-respected charity with a broad base of devoted patriotic supporters in your community. Give back to those who have selflessly given to our country and have returned home with serious disabilities and injuries.

Promote your involvement

Your recognition as a community leader appeals to a new audience of potential customers. Supporters that join Homes for Our Troops Street Teams, and donate materials or land, say that they also support the Building Partners and professional tradespeople involved in their cause.

Strengthen your business relationships inside and out!

Taking an active role in the community by contributing to a worthy cause builds stronger relationships between employees— resulting in better teamwork, higher morale, and unified company pride. Serving as part of our volunteer professional trade’s team brings a committed group of subcontractors, suppliers, and laborers into your business community, creating or strengthening long-term partnerships.

Press Release: Volvo Rents "Building" a New Partnership with Homes for Our Troops 

Our Building Partners: In Their Own Words

“I can tell you this much, every contractor and supplier was grateful to be a part of this build job and they can now testify it is better to give than receive....Southeast Michigan has been hit very hard by the housing and automotive downturn in the economy...by doing this home many builder/ contractor/ supplier associations rallied together....this was the most rewarding home I have ever been a part of building.” Sam Palazzolo of Palazzolo Brothers, General Contractor for SPC Alex Knapp’s home in Macomb, Michigan

“(Personnel from) Homes for our Troops and Atlantic Builders plus tons of people    donating their time and resources to build Steve’s house. Can’t begin to describe the love, camaraderie, and generally great attitude everyone brought to the build. It was a wonderful experience.” Atlantic Builders, General Contractor for Sgt Steven Kiernan’s home in Fredericksburg, Virginia

“The Travis Wood home was a success in every meaningful way---the quality, the level of donor generosity, and teamwork. We are so happy to have been a part of it.” Brian Nichols of Nichols Building, LLC , General Contractor for SGT Travis Wood’s home in Cedar City, Utah

 Watch these Homes for Our Troops videos to experience the impact of an HFOT Build Brigade and a HFOT Key Ceremony:

Click Here to View Texas 3-Star Build Brigade

Click Here to View Texas 3-Star Key Ceremony 

To Donate

Via mobile devices: Text homes to 85944

Click Here to Donate to Homes For Our Troops

Volvo Rents is licensed to use Homes for Our Troops’ trademarks and logos. Homes for Our Troops does not endorse products. Visit www.homesforourtroops.org or contact your state attorney general for financial information about Homes for Our Troops. Your rental amount is not deductible for federal or state income tax purposes. The maximum  donation to Homes for Our Troops in connection with Color for a Cause will be $50,000.