The Mission Continues Bay Area

The Mission Continues empowers veterans who are adjusting to life at home to find purpose through community impact. We deploy veterans on new missions in their communities, so that their actions will inspire future generations to serve.

Since our founding, we have always been a nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to bringing together veterans and innovative community organizations to create transformational change for communities in need all across the country.

Our operations in cities nationwide deploy veteran volunteers alongside non-profit partners and community leaders to solve some of the most challenging issues facing our communities: improving community education resources, eliminating food deserts, mentoring at-risk youth and more.

Through this unique model, veterans build new skills and networks that help them successfully reintegrate to life after the military while making long-term, sustainable transformations in communities and inspiring future generations to serve.

The Mission Continues has five core values. These core values go beyond a list in an employee’s training manual – they reverberate through the words, actions and spirit of our staff, program members and volunteers.

WORK HARD, TRUST, LEARN & GROW, RESPECT, HAVE FUN

Oakland 1st Platoon focuses on positive youth development as an intentional, pro-social approach that engages youth within their communities, schools, organizations, peer groups, and families through Service and Support Projects.

San Francisco 1st Service Platoon, in collaboration with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, is dedicated to protecting and enriching national and local parks, making them relevant and accessible for all communities, and instilling a sense of stewardship in this and future generations to ensure their vitality forever.