Creative Colors International Announces New Two-Part Veteran Employment Initiative Leading Fabric Renovation Franchise Launches National Campaign to Combat Unemployment for Post 9/11 Veterans Mokena, IL – According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are currently more than 130,000 unemployed post 9/11 veterans across the U.S. To assist these deserving veterans in developing job skills […]
Firm Hires 468 Military Veterans in 2013 for Financial Positions; Sets 500 Hiring Goal for 2014 Edward Jones has been named a 2014 Most Valuable Employer (MVE) for Military® by CivilianJobs.com, recognizing the firm’s deep commitment to recruiting, training and retaining military veterans as financial advisors.
Hiring Our Heroes, Toyota, and Blue Star Families Launch First-of-its-kind Online Career Resource for Military Spouses Career Spark Creates Powerful Skills-Based Resume to Help Highly Mobile Military Spouses Overcome Roadblocks to Employment CAMP PENDLETON, CA—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes program, Toyota, and Blue Star Families today introduced Career Spark, a first-of-its-kind online tool […]
An Interview With Green Beret Veteran Robert Patrick Lewis A fire is made of many pieces of kindling, an accelerant and a flame. Altogether, it can start small but grow to become something stronger and brighter. As a whole, the fire — small or large — is powerful.
The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation – GoDaddy “Matching Challenge” Raises $5MM to Help Injured Service Members via the Semper Fi Fund Campaign Matching Customer Donations Dollar-for-Dollar Exceeds Original Goal SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Jan. 7, 2014) – Semper Fi Fund, The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation and GoDaddy have announced the results of their two-month matching […]
BOE Honored For Work with Small Businesses and Disabled Veteran Enterprises Sacramento – The California State Board of Equalization (BOE) is proud to announce that it has been honored with three State Agency Recognition Awards for its outstanding work with California ’s small and disabled veteran owned businesses.
Eight Years Strong: Schneider National Ranks #10 on G.I. Jobs’ Top 100 Military Friendly Employers List Continued Commitment to Hiring Current and Former Military Personnel Makes Schneider Highest Ranking Trucking Company on 2014 List GREEN BAY, Wis. – (November 11, 2013) – Schneider National, Inc., a premier provider of truckload, intermodal and logistics services, announced today […]
Veterans nationwide are being called to report for duty again. But this time, the theater of operations is their own communities as members of community service platoons led by The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit organization that helps veterans successfully transition to post-military lives through volunteerism.
$5 MILLION WALMART FOUNDATION GRANT HELPS GOODWILL® GROW JOBS PROGRAM FOR VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES Operation: GoodJobs Learns from Pilot Program and Expands to Four States with High Concentrations of Veterans ROCKVILLE, Md. — The Walmart Foundation has granted $5 million to Goodwill Industries International to expand Operation: GoodJobs, an initiative that equips military veterans and […]
“Will Gardner” – A Film about One of America’s Forgotten Heroes On any single day in the United States, there are close to 68,000 homeless military veterans living on the streets. The majority of them are young men and single. About 8% are women. If you find that statistic shameful and disgraceful, you will know […]
The GI Bill can help cover many of a Veteran’s expenses, but often there are still bills to pay. Did you know there is a program that can pay students to help other Veterans right in their own community and do it while attending school?
