Golden Tate wrote Friday on Instagram that he is starting a nonprofit and on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Detroit Lions wide receiver announced that a goal of the organization will be to help military veterans when they return stateside.

"We'll be shedding light onto the situations our heros face after finishing their active tour," Tate wrote on his Instagram page. "We'll be 'adopting military families' giving them home makeovers to make them ADA accessible if solders were wounded. We're clothing homeless veterans in Michigan, we're providing service dogs for soldiers with PTSD.

"That's just a tiny portion of the areas we will touch."

Tate wrote in the post the full launch of the program and his foundation, the Golden Future Foundation, will come next month.

He is the second Lions player to publicly launch efforts to help Detroit's homeless in recent weeks -- joining DeAndre Levy, who said last month he is liquidating his sneaker collection for charity.