Letters of Interest supporting grants to assist workforce development programs at colleges and universities in four states due by 3 PM, EDT, June 28, 2013 On May 23rd, the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University announced the availability of $1 million in funding from the Walmart Foundation to support competitive grant [...]
Five graduates of the Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE) programs hosted in Chicago, San Diego, Jacksonville and Baltimore have been selected as Women Veteran Entrepreneur Corps (WVEC) Awardees to participate in the ‘Count Me In’ Business Accelerator Program. Designed and hosted by People Biz, Inc., the program uses a combination of group coaching and training [...]
The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University was honored to host The Honorable Eric K. Shinseki (General, USA, Retired), U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, on Thursday, June 13, 2013. Secretary Shinseki came to the IVMF to learn more about the institute’s mission, and to explore opportunities for collaboration between the IVMF [...]
USAA magazine features an article written by EBV-SU 2007 grad Brian Iglesias and the process of filming his new documentary, Chosin, which chronicles the stories of veterans who survived the battle at Chosin Reservoir in Korea 60 years ago. View the article here.
On June 25, 2013, IVMF director of employment policy Gary Shaheen will serve as a presenter at the “Best Practices, Resources, and Strategies for Employment for Service Members, Veterans and their Families” webinar hosted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Service Members, Veterans and their Families Technical Assistance Center. The webinar will [...]
USAA magazine quoted James Schmeling, IVMF managing director and co-founder, in an article on the positive impact that mentoring has on veterans who are transitioning into the workplace. Mentors who are working professionals in the industry today can help veterans understand the expectations of the way workplaces function, as well as information on how to interact with coworkers and management in [...]
The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) has appointed Vivian Greentree, Ph.D., Director of Research and Policy for Blue Star Families (BSF), as a Senior Research Fellow of the IVMF. Greentree’s research expertise is focused on public policy, military families, community engagement, and veterans’ issues. Greentree’s research on civic engagement and [...]
This week, Florida State University (FSU) will welcome a new class of post-9/11 veterans to the sixth annual Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) program, which provides cutting-edge training in entrepreneurship and small-business management to veterans with service-connected disabilities as they pursue the American dream of business ownership. Since its inception, the EBV program has been offered without [...]
Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE) is an entrepreneurial training program for female veterans of all service eras and branches with a passion for and interest in either starting a new small business or growing an existing one. The program was recently opened to military spouses as well. This unique training program was designed [...]
Grant to assist workforce development programs at colleges and universities in four states The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University today announced it received a $1 million grant from the Walmart Foundation. IVMF will launch a competitive grant program for veteran vocational education at community and technical colleges in California, New [...]
The The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University is currently engaged in an effort to understand the relationship between military service – and those who volunteer for military service – and the broader values, ideals, and priorities of American society. We are asking for your support of that effort – specifically, [...]
Dan Cohen: (315) 443-6898 Program Manager | Veterans Career Transition Program The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University, in partnership with JP Morgan Chase & Co., is excited to announce the launch of the Veterans Career Transition Program Independent Study Track. Since July 2011, veterans have been participating in the Veterans [...]
Daniel Savage: (315) 443-1176 Chief of Staff The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) has announced the appointment of Colonel (Ret.) James D. McDonough Jr., as senior director of community engagement & innovation. Colonel McDonough will join the IVMF team beginning May 20, 2013. As senior director of community engagement & innovation, McDonough will [...]
Special correspondent Sanjay Gupta reports on the Institute’s Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities Last summer, the CBS News series “60 Minutes” sent special correspondent Sanjay Gupta to Syracuse University to report on the IVMF’s innovative Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV). The only program of its kind in the country, EBV leverages the [...]
Chicago Grid, of the Chicago Sun-Times, highlights the IVMF’s Boots to Business entrepreneurship training program for transitioning service members and their families in a piece on veteran entrepreneurship. In addition, IVMF partners the Women’s Business Development Center’s Vetrepreneurship Program (WBDC) in Chicago and Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs are also featured for their work in [...]
Stockhouse, Daily Finance, Yahoo! Finance, Businesswire and MarketWatch reported on the May 5 launch of the Citi Salutes: Realizing Your Dream Business Competition. The announcement was made during the Chicago offering of the IVMF’s V-WISE program, which anchored IVMF Women Veterans Week Chicago. (Citi was a co-sponsor of V-WISE Chicago.) The competition is open to graduates of the institute’s V-WISE and [...]
Initiative announced at Citi- and SBA-funded conference during IVMF Women Veterans Week Chicago Citi and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) today announced the launch of the Citi Salutes: Realizing Your Dream Business Competition, a call for veterans who are established or aspiring entrepreneurs to submit formal small business plans in [...]
Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE), one of the first federally-funded programs focused on engaging entrepreneurial opportunity for female veterans and launched by Syracuse University in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in 2010, will hold its sixth offering May 3-5 in Chicago, Ill. One hundred and fifty participants are expected to take [...]
Attention!, official blog of KMI Media Group serving the military and defense community, highlighted the recent Bob Woodruff Foundation and IVMF two-day convening, “Barriers & Breakthroughs: Employing Veterans with Disabilities.” The event brought together military, government and private sector representatives to discuss the multi-faceted issue of employment for veterans with disabilities and the value of [...]
Events include film screening on women in combat and panel discussion on civilian transition, V-WISE entrepreneurship training conference, national homelessness summit, comedy salute Women represent an important and growing segment of the veterans’ community, and the post-service challenges facing many of the nation’s1.8 million female veterans can be formidable. Importantly, however, the potential inherent in efforts to empower female veterans as leaders in business, higher education, community [...]
IVMF director of new initiatives and external relations Raymond Toenniessen participated as a panelist as part of UCLA’s “How Are Veterans Changing America?” forum. Panel topics included, “Why Don’t We Hire More Veterans?”, “How Are the Wars Changing Medicine?” and “How Do Wars Affect Families.” The forum focused on how veterans have affected American contemporary [...]
IVMF executive director and founder Mike Haynie was keynote speaker at the recent Veterans Advantage Corporate Career Symposium in New York City. The symposium focused on post-9/11 veterans seeking to establish a civilian career after active duty. His address focused on the work of the IVMF, recommendations to employers and companies to establish veterans initiatives, [...]
The Huffington Post Blog features a guest post by Mirza Tihic, IVMF director of program support services, on how KIVA Zip is helping veterans start small businesses and the partnership between Kiva and the IVMF. The post mentions the institute’s programming related to veteran entrepreneurship, work with Kiva as a trustee and success of 2009 [...]
Veterans Career Transition Program builds on and transforms IVMF partnership with iSchool In July 2011, Syracuse University and JPMorgan Chase & Co. launched the Veterans Technology Program (VTP), a collaborative effort to assist veterans transitioning from the military to second careers in large corporations, specifically information technology within global organizations. Since its launch and founding [...]
The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF) has appointed Jan Fletcher as an office assistant. As a member of the institute’s administrative team, Fletcher will be responsible in helping manage day-to-day operations, including a variety of duties related to the execution of financial and administrative processes and other projects as assigned [...]
TIME magazine ran a column on three steps to soften the landing for veterans (especially those with injuries) in the civilian economy written by Anne Marie Dougherty, executive director of the Bob Woodruff Foundation. The piece is tied to this week’s High Impact Collaboration Series convening, Barriers & Breakthroughs: Employing Veterans with Disabilities, hosted by [...]
IVMF and founding partner JPMorgan Chase & Co. were featured in an NBCNews.com article on winners of the Families and Work Institute’s Work Life Legacy Military Awards for 2013. The recognition cites JPMC as a company that has gone the extra mile to help vets as they return to the civilian workplace. JPMC has a dedicated military [...]
IVMF executive director and founder Mike Haynie will attend the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center on April 25 in Dallas. Haynie was invited by the 43rd U.S. President and former First Lady Laura Bush. The IVMF is an academic partner of the George W. Bush Institute’s Military Service Initiative “Circles of Excellence” [...]
Jaime Winne Alvarez :: (315) 443-0177 Director of Communications The IVMF’s Gary Shaheen, director of employment policy, and Mirza Tihic, director of program support services, together with Barbara Murray of the International Labor Organization, recently conducted a webinar on employment and entrepreneurship for people with disabilities. Shaheen and Tihic presented on inclusive entrepreneurship for people [...]
IVMF executive director and founder Mike Haynie spoke with Crain’s New York Business on the veteran unemployment picture nationally and regionally in New York state. Supportive data, compiled and deconstructed by the IVMF, is cited. In addition, IVMF founding partner JPMC and its 100,000 Jobs Mission and institute partner the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Hiring [...]
Marylyn Harris, a 2010 graduate of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities and 2011 graduate of Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE) programs operated by the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF), has been recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) as the 2013 Houston (Texas) District Veteran Small Business [...]
Second in series of Bob Woodruff Foundation’s “High Impact Collaborations” The Bob Woodruff Foundation (BWF), in partnership with the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF), today announced it will convene a group of national leaders to investigate underlying barriers to employment among post-9/11 veterans and share leading practices. The meeting comes [...]
Jared Lyon, national program manager of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) and Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families (EBV-F) programs operated by the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF), will speak at the Seventh Annual U.S. Disability Matters Awards Conference April 15-17 in Jacksonville, Fla. The conference brings together [...]