A 2009 study by CNA’s Center for Naval Analyses found that seriously wounded, ill and injured service members need a caregiver for an average of 19 months. In addition, it found that three out of four caregivers had to quit or take time off from work or school to provide this support. This year, the [...]
The National Peace Corps Association, which supports Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and the Peace Corps community, has launched a new website called the Next Step Job Finder for job searching Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and employers looking to hire them. Click here for the full story.
There has always been a connection between Peace Corps Volunteer service and jobs, although until recently that connection has been underappreciated. The experience of 200,000 Volunteers provides compelling evidence that Peace Corps service helps individuals develop flexibility, empathy, cross-cultural and language skills, all of which are invaluable attributes for job-seekers in today’s highly dynamic global [...]
Continue Reading →When office and school furniture manufacturer OFM wanted a way to make employees more efficient, it turned to its own resources for internal cross-training. Creating “OFM University,” the company began cross-training employees on such operations as accounting, inventory, graphics, and shipping. This reinvigorated workers and created a workforce prepared to take over [...]
Continue Reading →Through the Young Farmers Idea Contest launched by the National Peace Corps Association, the African diaspora and volunteers alike are invited to share their ideas on new ways to engage youths in sub-Saharan Africa under the age of 18 through educational projects, community-building initiatives, and social programs, all centered around agriculture [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, I received an e-mail from Alison Beckwith, a media relations executive with OFM, Inc., a furniture manufacturer based in Holly Springs, N.C. Alison had news of “OFM University,” an in-house effort to help cross train its employees in order to make the team more productive. Click here [...]
Continue Reading →Implementing unique designs for each department helps serve varying job requirements, but also “dresses” the different subcultures within a company. “Within our business itself, our sales department needs a closed-door environment because they’re doing relationship building, and I want them to feel comfortable and able to speak to customers in a way that’s not looked [...]
Continue Reading →OFM, a leading office and school furniture manufacturer, distributor, and wholesaler, recently launched a new program called “OFM University” that offers cross-training opportunities through classes and lectures to every employee within the company on how the business operates. Click here for the full story.
Continue Reading →Africa Rural Connect (ARC), a program by the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA), the nation’s leading nonprofit supporting Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and the Peace Corps community, is getting a major boost from a new partnership with the nonprofit agricultural organization IFDC. Under the partnership, volunteers with NPCA and IFDC will [...]
Continue Reading →They’re called the “sea of goodwill,” said Kate Kohler, a West Point graduate and Army captain who is the chief operating officer of the PenFed Foundation, a nonprofit that helps troops with financial literacy, housing and emergency needs. She said their hearts are in the right place but so many of these organizations [...]
Continue Reading →OFM, a leading office and school furniture manufacturer, distributor, and wholesaler, recently launched a new program called “OFM University” that offers cross-training opportunities through classes and lectures to every employee within the company on how the business operates. Click here for the full story.
Continue Reading →Last year, I met an amazing woman who was caring for her triple-amputee son in San Antonio. Saralee Trimble had left a job, her husband and her home behind the moment she got word her son, Army Pfc. Kevin Trimble, had been injured in Afghanistan. The 19-year-old was just four months into his deployment when [...]
Continue Reading →The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation wants to shine a spotlight on the hard work of veterans’ home caregivers. “Too often we forget the courage and sacrifice of family members and friends who help our wounded service members and veterans,” said Kate Kohler, foundation chief operating officer and a former Army captain. The [...]
Continue Reading →A nonprofit organization serving military families is holding a video contest to find a “hero at home.” The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation wants to honor a caregiver of a wounded service member or veteran at its eighth annual Night of Heroes Gala later this year, according to releases. Click Continue Reading →
They give to help those who have already given. Now it’s time that the caregivers for military troops are recognized for their work. The nonprofit Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation will hold a video contest to honor the caregiver of a wounded member of the military or a veteran as the [...]
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