Call of Duty Endowment found jobs for 16,138 veterans in 2021
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Despite the pandemic and the end-of-year Omicron variant, the Call of Duty Endowment charity found jobs for more than 16,138 veterans in 2021.
That’s a record year for the number of veterans placed in high-quality jobs, which is the mission of the endowment.
Mike Lavigne, marketing manager for corporate social responsibility at Activision Blizzard, said the year had its challenges with COVID-19 but the endowment still made meaningful progress toward its goal of placing 100,000 veterans in jobs by 2024.
Although Activision Blizzard had a difficult year with a high-profile sexual harassment lawsuit, the resulting bad publicity did not hurt the independent charity, which was started by Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick. Activision Blizzard is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for $68.7 billion.
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The average salary in 2021 was $64,163 – the highest in the endowment’s 12 year history – and nearly twice the current U.S. average. Those numbers resulted in a total of more than $1 billion in first-year salaries gained by the veterans helped – another record for the endowment.
The endowment worked with New York-based organization American Corporate Partners, which drives measurable, high-quality job placements through curated one-on-one mentoring, networking, and online career advice.
In addition to ACP, the endowment provided $8.6 million in grants in 2021 to 12 other U.S. and UK-based organizations to place veterans in jobs, typically at a much lower cost than
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