Blog

Champions of Change: A Big Thank You to Our Leadership Louisville Ignite Team Over the past six months, we’ve had the absolute pleasure of partnering with a fantastic team from Leadership Louisville’s IGNITE Class of 2025. This group, known as Champions of Change, chose to work alongside Dogs Helping Heroes as part of their community impact experience – and we could not be more grateful. If you’re not familiar, IGNITE is a six-month program that connects up-and-coming leaders with nonprofits to spark positive change through hands-on projects. We were beyond thrilled when Leadership Louisville reached [...]

Dogs Helping Heroes is proud to announce that we will be hosting the annual “Be at Ease” event on November 6, 2025 from 6:00-9:00pm. Our attendance continues to grow so we are at a new location, The Ice House, 226 E. Washington St., Louisville KY 40202! Please join us for food, drink, a raffle drawing, fantastic auction items, and meet some of our AMAZING Hero Teams! Dogs Helping Heroes is dedicated to helping restore lost freedom and peace of mind to wounded Veterans, First Responders and their families, by gifting specially trained and certified service [...]

The Dogs Helping Heroes family lost its prime founder David Scott Benson in a tragic motorcycle accident Wednesday, July 6.  David was a young man with an old soul.  He was always reaching, through intense thoughts, for more.  He wanted more for others and more for himself.  David brought eight of us together to form the initial Dogs Helping Heroes board of directors, to apply for non-profit status, and to begin to crawl this terrific idea of raising funds to provide service dogs for wounded veterans, first responders, and Gold Star families.  Together we all [...]

We are excited to be the recipients of V-Soft Consulting Group, Inc. annual charity golf scramble at Valhalla golf course this year! There are lots of opportunities to help support this event. Check out vsoftcares.org for sponsorship information or how to sign up to play. The event is scheduled for June 28.