... Relaying Informative, Inspiring, Patriotic Content from Our Flag each Day ...
... a nonpartisan, student-inspired, Veteran-led nonprofit project ...
Website & App Delivers: Daily Half-Staff Alerts, Historical Reminders, Fallen Patriot Commemorations (Military & First Responders), Weekly Flag Tribute & Pledge Ceremony and more
*** Delivering the most Honorable, Accurate, & Complete National, State, and Local Half-Staff Alerts ... and so much more ***
[ GO HERE to see 60-day case study about the accuracy and completeness of Half-Staff Alert sites & apps ]
... a nonpartisan, student-inspired, Veteran-led nonprofit project ...
Website & App Delivers: Daily Half-Staff Alerts, Historical Reminders, Fallen Patriot Commemorations (Military & First Responders), Weekly Flag Tribute & Pledge Ceremony and more
*** Delivering the most Honorable, Accurate, & Complete National, State, and Local Half-Staff Alerts ... and so much more ***
[ GO HERE to see 60-day case study about the accuracy and completeness of Half-Staff Alert sites & apps ]
Flag Steward App
Install the FREE app now!
CLICK HERE to install app on Apple iOS devices
GO HERE to install app on Android devices
CLICK HERE to install app on Apple iOS devices
GO HERE to install app on Android devices
Flag Steward:
Mission: To Build Better (more Informed, Inspired, Patriotic) Citizens, especially Students, by 'Making Our Flag & its Ceremonies more Engaging & Meaningful'
Vision: In 5 years, by 2024, motivate citizens (students and/or Veterans) to build and distribute more than 7,000 iHonor GWOT Fallen American Flags, which are hand-inscribed, story-telling Flags, gifted to the high school alma maters, and other places of remembrance, for each of the nearly 7,000 GWOT Fallen. From this engaging, do good, flag commemoration experience, we hope to inspire and lead at least 30,000 students to perform weekly Flag Tribute & Pledge ceremonies at more than 1,000 schools
Mission: To Build Better (more Informed, Inspired, Patriotic) Citizens, especially Students, by 'Making Our Flag & its Ceremonies more Engaging & Meaningful'
Vision: In 5 years, by 2024, motivate citizens (students and/or Veterans) to build and distribute more than 7,000 iHonor GWOT Fallen American Flags, which are hand-inscribed, story-telling Flags, gifted to the high school alma maters, and other places of remembrance, for each of the nearly 7,000 GWOT Fallen. From this engaging, do good, flag commemoration experience, we hope to inspire and lead at least 30,000 students to perform weekly Flag Tribute & Pledge ceremonies at more than 1,000 schools
Want to know today's flag status and other informative and inspiring tidbits?
Then, GO HERE for today's 'Reminders from Our Flag.'
Then, GO HERE for today's 'Reminders from Our Flag.'
[ Example of Flag Steward's daily Flag Status map ] ... Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was the most half-staff orders on 1 day that we've seen since this project started in 2016 ...
Search the Flag Steward website:
[ Platinum is GuideStar's highest rating of a nonprofit's profile. Review Beacon of Honor's profile (aka Flag Steward) on Guidestar at: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/46-2457373 ]
... in the News / Media ...
Memorial Day 2019:
An unexpected surprise...
At about 2:30pm on Memorial Day, while I was up in a remote area, near Sugarloaf Mountain, in the Boulder Canyon, I received a text message from Tom Mustin of Denver's ABC Channel 7 News. He wanted to interview me about Flag Steward and its iHonor Flag program for the Ch. 7 News broadcast at 10pm. I scrambled down from Boulder Canyon and met Tom at the studio around 5:30pm. The resulting news interview is below...
An unexpected surprise...
At about 2:30pm on Memorial Day, while I was up in a remote area, near Sugarloaf Mountain, in the Boulder Canyon, I received a text message from Tom Mustin of Denver's ABC Channel 7 News. He wanted to interview me about Flag Steward and its iHonor Flag program for the Ch. 7 News broadcast at 10pm. I scrambled down from Boulder Canyon and met Tom at the studio around 5:30pm. The resulting news interview is below...
November 2018:
Flag Steward's 'Interactive American Flag,' honoring a GWOT fallen CU alum, made this US Flag carried on the field by CU's football team more meaningful to the team and its fans
The flag we carry out behind Ralphie this week will be a little more special.
— Colorado Buffaloes Football (@RunRalphieRun) November 10, 2018
Catch ESPN tomorrow for the full story!#GoBuffs || #VeteransDay2018 pic.twitter.com/LsR9YfHorO
This week's featured INTERACTIVE AMERICAN FLAG, honoring the 1st of 4 GWOT fallen CU - ROTC alums, was given to the CU Football team to lead the team out behind Ralphie for this Saturday's (11/10) Military Appreciation Game
[See CU Football's Tweet about this event below]
CLICK HERE to experience this week's "Flag-o-Week" inside CU Champions Center
(or you can find it by Searching for "CU Football" within the "FLAG HONORS" section of the Flag Steward app)
If you want your own Interactive American Flag honoring 1 of 6,593 Fallen GWOT (Global War on Terror) soldiers; thereby helping us fulfill our nonprofit's mission to make Our Flag and its ceremonies more engaging and meaningful, then go to our new IAF listing on Amazon
***NOTE***
As of March 1, 2018, Beacon of Honor - Awakens Our Flag is now known as / being re-branded as Flag Steward
We expect the transition of the website and other marketing elements to Flag Steward to be completed by August 1st.
So, wherever you see Beacon of Honor - Awakens Our Flag, think and say "Flag Steward" to yourself. ;)
Flag Steward (formerly known as Beacon of Honor and originally incorporated as GivingVu.org, Inc. in 2013) is a nonpartisan, student-inspired, Veteran-led 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit organization based in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Tax ID# 46-2457373
Send inquiries, donations by mail, etc. to:
GivingVu.org, Inc. (DBA Flag Steward)
10047 Heatherwood Place
Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
Send inquiries, donations by mail, etc. to:
GivingVu.org, Inc. (DBA Flag Steward)
10047 Heatherwood Place
Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
