The Stacks – Stacking Up in Florida! by: Ruby Kuzma This first photo is of our booth lit up about 9 pm. By this point, we had been there a while and had met a number of very wonderful people. I wanted this to be the first photo as it is the best shot of the booth. The choice to put the banner in the front was to have it seen as we had been placed at the very end of the street. But it seemed to be a good choice as I moved my chair to the front so I could stay in view and easil

On Easter weekend, the Queens Chapter of The Stacks headed to Newark to work with our partners at The Mission Continues — Newark for a service mission. The job for the day was to work on cleaning up and setting up the Ironbound Boxing Academy, which serves the local community. The Academy is built under the old Ironbound Stadium which, while closed since 1987, is being prepared for its own restoration. There was a lot of garbage piled in rooms underneath the stadium, which ha

The Stacks – Stacking Up with Mission Continues and the American Legion by: Ethan Whinston For the second straight week, the Queens Chapter of The Stacks participated in a service event with The Mission Continues (TMC). You can click on the link to find out more about their work. This time they were at the American Legion Post in Weehawken, NJ, helping with restoration. In recent years, the post had fallen into disrepair. But its new leadership is trying to reestablish and re

The Stacks – Stacking Up with SCA and Mission Continues by: Ethan Whinston Take a moment as we check in with the latest action out of our Queens Chapter of The Stacks! On January 18, members of the Queens chapter of The Stacks participated in a Martin Luther King Day event run by the Student Conservation Association. The Queens Stack participated with a contingent from The Mission Continues. The event was a restoration of historic St. Nicholas Park in Harlem. The SCA has made

The Stack-Up team had the opportunity to do one of our Live Fire events with Wounded Warrior Project (WWP)Headquarters in Florida to show them just what Stack-Up is all about, and we had an amazing turnout. People drove from hours away to attend the Jacksonville event; many of them had been WWP Alums for awhile, but the opportunity to try Oculus Rift virtual reality as well as play some of the latest and greatest as far as console gaming goes was too much of a siren call for

We check in with The Stacks and the San Antonio Stack as they volunteered their time to help with the 4th Annual JBSA Half Marathon! Read on below as Stack Lead Angie Huynh tells us all about the event! The San Antonio Stack volunteered to help out at the 4th Annual JBSA Half Marathon at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph. The race was 13.1 miles long and brought runners on a scenic route around some of the historic areas on base, like Perimeter Road, Heritage Park, and the Taj

You may know our San Francisco Stack from the event write ups that you see here on Stack-Up.Org. As part of The Stacks, they do such an amazing job volunteering in their community and doing fantastic work helping veterans. We recently received some word of thanks from one of the SanFranStack’s partners at the North Bay Vet Center. Check out the letter below. Stephen, I wanted to touch base with you and let you know how appreciative the North Bay Vet Center is to be involved w

Last weekend our Red Shirts in San Antonio gathered up for a day of helping. Partnering with the Soldiers’ Angels the San Antonio Stack helped organize and deliver groceries to veteran families in need throughout their community. Benjamin Cloutier Co-Stack Lead took the time to write up a report on the day’s action… San Antonio Stack became Community Partners with Soldiers’ Angels back in September, and the first event as Partners was this past Friday. Every month, Soldiers’

The folks down in the Bay have been extremely busy this past week. After Stacking Up with the folks at Rohnert Park Veteran Center on Friday for a night of gaming with their veteran community they went out Saturday afternoon for a day of volunteer work at the Morgan Horse Ranch. Read on to hear more about the day and how they Stack Up in the Bay! Wow. After our event on Saturday on July 23, 2016, in support of Stack-Up’s Call to Arms weekend, I am left with a whole new apprec

This Schedule is of course, subject to change as we make additions and bring even more streaming goodness to everyone out there in The Stack! MONDAY On Monday’s the adventure begins at 4pm EST with Hylilan who is fond of streaming League of Legends. The excitement continues as Stack Up Skatch takes the controls from 8pm EST till Midnight with various games mainly from the action genre! TUESDAY Tuesday you can catch Call Me Giant from 8pm EST till midnight. He is a connoisseur

May 19, 2016 / 10:58 PM / Oyster Bay, NY There are so many unique and diverse ways that The Stacks get out to Stack Up in their hometowns. This past Thursday evening/Friday morning the Queens NY Stack got their science on by supporting and participating in the Cornell Extensions HorseShoe Crab Census. Its stated goals “are to annually monitor spawning horseshoe crabs at various beaches throughout Long Island so that we can gain a better understanding of their abundance and di

On March 6, 2016 at 1200 hours, San Francisco Bay Area Stack Lead Anthony Keeton and Members Garrett Kaiser, Sam Wren, and Brandon Keeton volunteered at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building. The Veterans Memorial building has been around for many years and hosts several events throughout the year. The building is over 45 thousand square feet and requires constant expensive upkeep. It also has a large stage and a green room which was in need of a fresh coat of paint! This

It was a cold dreary morning on February 28th, the rain constantly beating against the dirt as the sound of shovels filled the air. Joshua “Fumbles” Fulmer, North West Regional Director, walked through the mud with his brother-in-law Matt to find the volunteers already deep in the woods. The idea for the morning: fix up one of the favorite trails that Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance 501(c)3 maintains within their Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park in Issaquah, WA. Matt, who does

We’ve got a Warning Order for those in the Los Angeles area from our LA Stack Lead, Kat Quinn. In the last two years, homelessness in the greater Los Angeles has grown by 12% in general (LA Times), and was already one of the largest homeless veteran communities in the United States. Just recently the City of Los Angeles declared a state of emergency on homelessness with as high as 20% of the homeless in Los Angeles being veterans (Los Angeles Almanac). With the specific inten