Call Of Duty Endowment Executive Director Dan Goldenberg talks about the importance of placing veterans in good jobs, and ways that ordinary people can help.
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The Call Of Duty Endowment is one of the more uplifting sides of the billion-dollar video game franchise from Activision. The best-selling military shooter is consistently at the top of the sales charts each year and this year’sThe Endowment, also referred to as C.O.D.E., is a non-profit with one pretty straightforward goal: Help veterans find good jobs after they leave the service.
This Veteran’s Day, I spoke with Call Of Duty Endowment Executive Director Dan Goldenberg about the Endowment, its mission, and how people can help veterans in their communities.The Call of Duty Endowment was born from a conversation between Activision Blizzard CEO, Bobby Kotick, and former VA Secretary, Jim Nicholson.
The conversation inspired Bobby to learn more about joblessness statistics among U.S. veterans, discovering that 50,000 of the 150,000 service members returning to civilian life at the time couldn’t find jobs. Kotick co-founded The Call of Duty Endowment soon after with the mission to place veterans into high-quality careers.
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