Our combat Veteran founders Bryan Meyer, Brandonn Mixon, Vincent Morales, and Mark Solomon had met through independent volunteer work helping fellow Veterans.

What began as a nights-and-weekends brainstorm over dining room tables grew into a bold, new vision for support services: Veterans Community Project. In a matter of months, each co-founder left their full-time job to pursue the idea—including bootstrapping much of it themselves.

We acquired an old building in Kansas City, Missouri, that was previously an old auto parts store—and, today, is still our national headquarters office. Our initial service to local Veterans was providing bus passes and in less than a year we helped them take 1 million rides.

Across the street sat an empty, overgrown field that was once home to a thriving driving range in the 1950s. Our co-founders engaged the community to clean up the property while sharing their vision for a community of tiny homes (and finding quite a few golf balls in the process).

In the meantime, the group worked on a prototype tiny home in one of their driveways. On Christmas Eve—December 24, 2017—we started framing the first 13 tiny homes at what would become our flagship Village and Veterans Community Project of Kansas City.