Call of Duty Endowment hits 100K veterans placed in jobs
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The Call of Duty Endowment has reached a big milestone as it announced it has placed 100,000 veterans into meaningful jobs.
In doing so, the Call of Duty Endowment reached its placement goal two years ahead of schedule. In total, the endowment says it has hit an estimated $5.6 billion in economic value for U.S. and United Kingdom veterans.
To coincide with this announcement, and Military Appreciation Month, the Santa Monica, California-based endowment released a white paper focused on veteran employment lessons learned over the organization’s 12-year history, with recommendations for veterans, employers, policymakers, and philanthropic donors.
The endowment partners with the most effective nonprofit organizations at just a fraction of what the U.S. government spends on veteran placement. In 2021, the Endowment placed veterans at a tenth of the cost per placement ($547) of the U.S. Department of Labor’s efforts.
Less than a tenth of 1% of the US Government’s roughly $300 billion veteran spend is focused on employment, even though it’s the service most requested by transitioning service members and successful transition into a high-quality career reduces the costs to help veterans with many other needs like housing and healthcare.
But the endowment said veterans are still vastly underemployed: According to The Veterans Metrics Initiative (TVMI), 61% of veterans are underemployed and 55% believe that they are more experienced than the job they currently have calls for.
The endowment said modest, individualized assistance such as interview and resume coaching have a dramatic impact — especially with women and people of
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