Steven Silver, West Texas Regional Manager for USA Cares

RADCLIFF, KY. - July 24, 2008 - USA Cares Inc., a leading non-profit organization providing post-9/11 veterans and military families with financial support and other critical resources, has named Steven Silver to serve as its West Texas Regional Manager. USA Cares exists to help bear the burdens of service by providing military families with financial and advocacy support in their time of need.

According to Bill Nelson, Executive Director of USA Cares, "Texas is an extremely important state for us. We have had more requests for support from Texas based military families and have saved more privately owned military family homes from foreclosure or eviction than any other state. We see that we are needed there and having Steven's "boots on the ground" in El Paso means that we can better serve the military families in the Fort Bliss area."

From late 1996 until the present, Steven was president of Philanthropic Services of the Southwest, a full-service fundraising firm with offices in Dallas and El Paso. Professionally, Steven has been in the not-for-profit industry since 1977. He received his Bachelors Degree from Emporia State University, a Master's Degree from Kansas State University, and completed his coursework in the Ph.D. program at the University of Kansas in Theatre.

Steven Silver has been a facilitator with the University of Phoenix since January 1997 and has served as Area Chair for Marketing at the Southern New Mexico Campus (1998-2002). He received the 2002-03 UOP Directors Award from SNM Campus in March, 2003. Steven also serves as the Chair of the City of El Paso's Quality of Life Cabinet and sits on the Mayor's Lyceum.

For recreation, Steven does extreme running, adventure racing, on and off road cycling as well as hiking and climbing and is an active member of the local Animal Welfare Community.

About USA Cares and Share A Minute
USA Cares is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that helps military families bear the burdens of service with financial and advocacy support. Its mission: to assist wounded warriors and their families, to prevent home foreclosures and evictions and to help with basic needs during financial crisis. Share A Minute asks Americans to donate $25 to represent one minute of a Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine's full 525,000 minute tour of duty. In its five and one-half years of operation, USA Cares has responded to over 11,000 requests for assistance, saved 465 military family homes from foreclosure or eviction thus sparing over 1,000 children from uncertainty. Families anywhere in America can apply for assistance through the USA Cares web site, http://www.usacares.org/, or by calling 1-800-773-0387. For more information on USA Cares contact jrevell@usacares.org.

USA Cares, Inc.

USA Cares, Inc.

USA Cares exists to help service members and their families across America and around the globe. USA Cares provides support with relevant and direct assistance that improves challenging situations and betters the life and well-being of America's service members who ask so little, yet give so very much. Helping service members and their families with quality of life issues using grants, counseling and mentorship.

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