Partner with us · Dakar Foundation
Victory by Valor is an integrated strategy utilizing film, museum and speaker bureaus to deliver the historical contributions of African Americans in service — activated through military observance days and connected to local outreach programs. Here is where a partner fits.
Campaign at a glance
Victory by Valor showcases the cross-connection between sports and pop culture — civilian heroes who had a little-known second life in the military — delivered through social media and student assembly screenings captured as Did-You-Know vignettes. Hall of Fame athletes and celebrities reach influencers and catalyze the conversation about these little-known facts.
Embedded in the campaign is a panel discussion that challenges students to define a hero and find the hero within; the Heroes component provides a lesson plan and curriculum for educators; the vignettes, bundled with a mini-exhibit of military memorabilia and interviews with living legends and historians, encourage students to discuss acts of heroism in their own lives.
Source · Dakar Foundation proposal, November 2024 · Campaign at a glance
heroes on the Mount Rushmore of Victory by Valor
films on the channel, from a one-minute vignette to the 11-minute long cut
the age band of the classroom activations
Collaboration lanes
Six lanes. Pick yours.
Speaker's bureau
Hall of Fame athletes, historians and Brig. Gen. Arnold Gordon-Bray (Ret.) in customizable, moderated conversations with a showcase of rare media, captured live and packaged into a reusable library.
Photo: U.S. Army ceremony, supplied by Kevin Clark
Interactive veteran interviews
StoryFile-style recorded conversations with living legends and veterans — such as Romay Davis of the 6888th — placed across museums, institutions of higher education, exhibits and galleries.
The museum mini-exhibit
Military memorabilia bundled with the vignettes, in the tradition of the 2,000-piece Buffalo Soldiers exhibit shown at the Schomburg Center.
Curriculum for educators
A lesson plan and curriculum that fuels the interactive military timeline with guided resources from the For Love of Liberty curriculum.
Outreach to community-based organizations
A central data exchange connecting community-based organizations, educational institutions (ages 16–24) and local outreach programs — two-way communication between instructors, students and field agents about careers and benefits.
Film, broadcast and social
Vignettes delivered through social media and student-assembly screenings; live-streamed events; a catalogue of stories, documents and licensed documentaries with social tools baked in.
The H.E.R.O. logline
The men and women who fought on the battlefields and won on the playing fields — Victory By Valor. A case study in how to activate the H.E.R.O. gene — Higher Education Resiliency Operation — in every student.