Brandy Gray

Brandy Gray is the Founder and Executive Director of Global Women Foundation & Band of Brothers, a nonprofit organization focused on helping veterans move from homelessness and crisis into stabilization, housing, services, and long-term community reintegration.

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Brandy’s work began at the street level in early 2021, when she started meeting veterans experiencing homelessness, listening to what they needed, and helping connect them to food, shelter, documents, housing pathways, community support, and hope. What began as direct outreach grew into a larger mission: to build the missing bridge between street-level survival and the housing, benefits, and care systems that already exist.

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Before formally launching GWFBOB, Brandy helped lead grassroots outreach and community events through Uscension, supporting veterans with supplies, hotel stays, food, community connection, and pathways toward housing. This early work contributed to more than 40 veterans moving out of homelessness and helped shape the model that GWFBOB is now working to scale.

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As Founder and Executive Director, Brandy has helped advance GWFBOB’s Veteran Peer Respite & Stabilization initiative, including securing a conditional California BHCIP Round 2 award of approximately $8.14 million and completing the required private match. The project is designed to create a voluntary, peer-led stabilization center that helps veterans move from street homelessness into housing, benefits, services, and community.

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Brandy brings experience in real estate, community organizing, fundraising, event production, and cross-sector relationship building. Her background has helped GWFBOB connect public agencies, veteran advocates, donors, volunteers, real estate professionals, service providers, and community partners around a shared goal: building practical pathways that help veterans get home and stay housed.

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Outside of her nonprofit work, Brandy has a deep love for nature, community, and connection. She is passionate about beach volleyball, skiing, hiking, biking, salsa dancing, and creating spaces where people can come together around healing, service, and positive change.