Call of Duty Endowment, the charity all gamers should be supporting this Armed Forces Day (Pic: Activision)
There's an awful lot of news about Call of Duty we could talk to you about every week.
From the upcoming Modern Warfare game and its many new bells and whistles to recently released updates to Call of Duty Black Ops 4. We could, like some other sites are doing this week, focus on human stories about the dev teams behind those games you love to buy and play every year.
But we don't want to talk about any of that. Not today.
Instead, we want to use this opportunity to draw our reader's attention towards the Call of Duty Endowment, a charitable fund originally formed in the US (later expanded to the UK) that provides grants to help veterans find high-quality employment.
With Armed Forces Day coming up this Saturday, it seemed like as good a time as ever to once again shine a light on this important charity and the truly remarkable work which goes into supporting ex-Armed Forces personnel.
Before we continue, take a minute to watch the below youtube clip, created by the Endowment team.
The small clip you've just watched, entitled Changing Perspectives, is obviously a short promotional film for the charity, released because they want to help raise more awareness for what they do, but also, one of their main mission statements.
Namely, they want to challenge the misconception around the transferable skills of ex-forces personnel.
The films central message, so we're told by Activision, is this;
“Maybe its time to look at who we are and who we can be. Maybe its time to see this skills of ex-Armed Forces in a new light.”
The messaging is important, but so is the charity's new self-imposed goal, to place 100,000 ex-service personnel into high-quality jobs by 2024.
It's a tall order, but based on the Endowment's past goals, all of which were successfully met, it's certainly doable.
The Endowments initial goal was to identify and fund best-in-class organisations to place 25,000 ex-service personnel into high-quality jobs by the end of 2018.
The charity achieved this, two years early, and have to date supported more than 57,261 placements to date.
The Endowment has been operational in the UK since 2017 and eleven such Endowment grantees including; RFEA – The Forces Employment Charity and Walking with the Wounded in the UK, have been awarded a total of £28 million in grants, to support their employment programmes.
As a result, ninety-three percent of ex-service personnel job placements they have made, were for full-time work, with an 87% six-month retention rate.
It's no small feat.
“Meaningful employment is the single most important way to ensure that service members successfully transition back to civilian life,” said Dan Goldenberg, Executive Director of the Call of Duty Endowment.
Read on and you can discover how you can help the Call of Duty Endowment in your own way.
Otherwise, if you want more information about the Call of Duty Endowment, please visit www.callofdutyendowment.orRead More – Source
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