ATLANTA (PRWEB)\u00a0OCTOBER 17, 2018<\/p>\n
Today, Hire Heroes USA announced it has received a $3 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation to increase its client capacity and expand its services. Hire Heroes USA is the preeminent nonprofit organization providing employment services to transitioning military members, veterans and military spouses across the United States and around the world.<\/p>\n
The Clark Foundation\u2019s two-year investment will allow Hire Heroes USA to add new staff positions, including Transition Specialists and new personnel for the virtual services, federal sector and mentoring teams. It will also fund the launch of a self-paced online program and will provide direct funding to sustain Hire Heroes USA\u2019s mentoring program.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are grateful to the Clark Foundation for their commitment to veterans. This funding will have an immediate and long-term impact on Hire Heroes USA and the clients we serve,\u201d said Christopher Plamp, chief executive officer and a decorated Air Force combat pilot. \u201cThis two-year investment is estimated to increase our capacity by about 30 percent. In real terms, that means Hire Heroes USA will have the potential to impact an additional 7,000 men and women and their families, through our free employment services \u2013 that\u2019s significant.”<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are excited about our partnership with Hire Heroes USA because we recognize that this investment will directly provide more veterans with access to necessary and effective employment resources and programming,\u201d said Mike Monroe, director of Veterans Initiatives at the Clark Foundation. \u201cThe Foundation is committed to helping veterans\u2019 organizations scale their capacity to meet the growing needs of our nation\u2019s bravest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hire Heroes USA, now in its 11th year, is forecasted to reach a milestone 30,000 lifetime hires before the end of the year. As the leading veteran service organization specifically targeting the issues of unemployment and underemployment among veterans, Hire Heroes USA continues to evolve, as does the suite of services it provides. These include resume, networking and interview assistance, federal employment guidance, online workshops and training modules, job matching, virtual career fairs and a job board that features thousands of job listings each month.<\/p>\n
About Hire Heroes USA:<\/strong><\/p>\n Hire Heroes USA provides free employment services to thousands of transitioning military members, veterans and military spouses every year. Headquartered in the Atlanta metro area, with additional branch offices around the country, the national nonprofit has earned\u00a0Charity Navigator\u2019s highest<\/span> possible 4-star rating<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for a third consecutive year and it also has a\u00a0GuideStar Platinum Seal of Transparency<\/span>.<\/a>\u00a0Funding for Hire Heroes USA\u2019s services is exclusively through private grants and public donations. For more information about our mission, services and how to get involved as a corporate partner, employment partner, donor or volunteer, visit\u00a0hireheroesusa.org<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0Facebook<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a><\/span>, and\u00a0Instagram<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n About the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation:<\/strong><\/p>\n The A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation seeks out grantees who build practical, immediate, and concrete connections between effort and opportunity \u2014 from scholarships for engineering students to better schools for DC\u2019s children to veteran reintegration programs and support of the DC community. The Clark Foundation targets its investments in the veterans' community to serve post-9\/11 veterans and their families, focusing on education, community and sense of purpose, employment, health and wellness, and family support. To learn more, visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.ClarkFoundationDC.org<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A digital copy of this press release is\u00a0also available online<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two-year commitment will increase nonprofit\u2019s capacity and expand its services ATLANTA (PRWEB)\u00a0OCTOBER 17, 2018 Today, Hire Heroes USA announced it has received a $3 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation to increase its client capacity and expand its services. Hire Heroes USA is the preeminent nonprofit organization providing employment services […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hireheroesusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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