This article was posted by The Daily Courier on December 26, 2019. By Nanci Hutson Originally Published: December 26, 2019 11:03 p.m. The cacophony of construction outside the office windows at U.S. VETS new, $9.5 million headquarters and housing complex on Whipple Street is a symphony to the agency leaders inside. The sound of bulldozers,…
With U.S. VETS Prescott about to open its new Whipple Street campus providing more 111 transitional and independent living housing units for homeless and at-risk veterans, Operations Coordinator Skye Biasetti is ready for her promotion to the parent agency.
This article was posted by Nonprofit News.Vegas on December 17, 2019. U.S.VETS – Las Vegas and Communities in Schools of Nevada have been named as the 2019 Bank of America Neighborhood Builders® awardees for Las Vegas for their work helping homeless or extremely low-income military veterans and their families transition into sustainable jobs and housing,…
This article was posted by laweekly.com on November 11, 2019. With two large hospitals, numerous administration buildings and living quarters, two theaters, a baseball stadium, golf course, a botanical garden, and its own cemetery, the V.A campus in Westwood is a city within a city. What started as the Sawtelle Disabled Veterans Home in 1988…
Hello, My name is Raeford Smith, Sr. I was born and raised in North Carolina. My childhood was rough to say the least and growing up, all I wanted was to get as far away from home as possible, as fast as possible. I joined the Marine Corps right out of high school on July 21,…
This article was posted by Just Jared on November 6, 2019. Wilmer Valderrama and Jay Ellis walk the red carpet together while attending the U.S.VETS Salute Gala on Tuesday night (November 5) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. The guys were joined at the event by stars like Veep‘s Tony Hale, Sister Sister‘s Tia Mowry, Star Trek‘s Ethan Peck, and Animal Kingdom‘s Christina Ochoa. Ethan’s…
Leadership Council Chaired by United Talent Agency CEO Jeremy Zimmer, Includes City National Bank’s Kelly Coffey, The Home Depot Foundation’s Shannon Gerber, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, HBO’s Amy Gravitt and NBCUniversal’s Ron Meyer U.S.VETS, the nation’s largest veteran services nonprofit, today announced the launch of a $10-million capital campaign, The Veterans Fund, to build…
This article was posted by Yahoo! Entertainment on October 28, 2019. United Talent Agency CEO Jeremy Zimmer will chair a new campaign from nonprofit U.S. Vets called The Veterans Fund, which will raise money in order to build what it says will be the nation’s largest veteran housing community. The nonprofit announced a $10 million…
This article was posted by Curbed on October 24, 2019. The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve up to $24.3 million in funding to repurpose a building on the Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles for housing for veterans. That represents about 70 percent of the cost for the project, called…
This article was posted by azfamily.com on October 15, 2019. By Maria Hechanova October 15, 2019 PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) – The U.S. veterans facility that gives homeless veterans temporary housing while they go through job placement and counseling programs got a major makeover Tuesday. The Home Depot Foundation and HandsOn Greater Phoenix donated all the supplies…