Valor Blog

Lehigh Valley Stand Down – March 22, 2025 Today we want to thank our Lehigh Valley Stand Down volunteers for conducting the Stand Down on March 22, 2025.  They provided much needed basic essential items to those who attended on this cold and rainy day while also providing conversation, comradery, and kindness.

Lehighton Stand Down – March 26, 2025 Today we want to thank our teammates and volunteers for helping 63 Veterans and 40 Dependents at the Lehighton Stand Down in March on a sunny but cold Spring Day.

 Since Valor's inception in 2012 more than 50 dogs have been gifted to veterans. Now the hope for the  puppies is to provide love and support for those who fought for our country.

VALOR was founded in 2012 as a 501(c)3 by Mark Baylis in response to the chronic lack of resources and support available to Veterans returning from war, specifically with PTSD trauma. As a Veteran himself, he works tirelessly as a champion for other Veterans, seeing them as family members who deserve to be treated with the same dignity and respect in civilian life they received as soldiers.

If you would have told me I would be running a Veterans charity when I left the service I would have laughed at you in 2006.

VALOR needs volunteers to help deliver Easter meals to Veterans and their famlies.