They serve, too.
These professionals respond to traumatic scenes, care for grieving families, and carry circumstances most people never experience—yet can be left out of debriefings, wellness resources, and support systems.
Strengthening Those Who Serve
The Millfort Foundation & Millfort Farm
The Foundation was created for the people who answer the call to serve—and carry burdens most people never see.
Our Mission
Care for those who care for everyone else.
Police officers, firefighters, paramedics, teachers, healthcare professionals, veterans, dispatchers, corrections officers, child-protection workers, coroners, death investigators, and countless others dedicate themselves to helping their communities.
Our mission is to restore, strengthen, and support them through healing, leadership development, education, family support, wellness, and opportunities for renewal.
Working toward 501(c)(3) nonprofit status.
Stronger Together
Strengthening those who serve.
Restore. Support. Develop. Honor.
The Foundation is built on a simple truth: people who carry difficult responsibilities should never have to carry them alone.
The Long-Term Vision
Millfort Farm
A place where those who serve can step away from the demands of their profession, reconnect with family, find peace, restore their health, strengthen their leadership, and return home with renewed purpose.
More than a retreat, Millfort Farm is envisioned as a place of hope, healing, and growth.
Founding Leadership
Building the mission together.
Michele Branning and Sabrina Gast serve as founding board members of the Millfort Foundation, helping shape an organization committed to finding and supporting professions too often overlooked.
Sponsors Wanted • December 2–4, 2026
Help us take this mission into the room.
The Foundation plans to attend a forensic conference in Myrtle Beach to listen, learn, build relationships, and begin developing stronger support for coroners, deputy coroners, and death investigators.
Join the mission.
Sponsors may be recognized through campaign graphics, social media, conference materials, booth signage, and event communications.
Become a sponsor →We see you. We value you. You have a voice. You will not be forgotten.
Meet Boone
The Millfort Bison
Bison are strong. They endure. They protect the herd. They keep moving forward. They never give up.
Boone represents the spirit behind the Foundation: strength to serve, endurance to continue, community so no one carries the load alone, and direction toward something better.
RestoreRest, healing, and hope.
SupportStanding beside those who serve.
DevelopStrength, leadership, and purpose.
HonorRecognizing sacrifice with gratitude.
Together, we build what matters.