On behalf of the D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University, I write to express our strong support for the Commissary Healthy Options and Servicemember Welfare (CHOW) Act, and to commend Senators Warnock an... Read More ▶

Kathleen went to Boston and attended V-WISE with 200 other veteran and military spouse entrepreneurs. What she found there would change the trajectory of the company she and her daughter had spent years building against systems that repeatedly failed... Read More ▶

Nick Green built one of the largest self-storage operations in outstate Minnesota, growing it from 24 units behind his father's shop to 454 units across 100,000 square feet. He bought and scaled a family plumbing company, acquired his largest competi... Read More ▶

Earlier this year, the D’Aniello IVMF convened a cross-sector roundtable in Washington, D.C., supported by the Walmart Foundation, to take a clear-eyed account of where the work stands, where the most significant gaps remain, and what coordinated a... Read More ▶

The IVMF is launching “The Career You Never See” campaign. Military spouse employment has gone unseen in policy, underserved by systems, and underreported in the data. This campaign exists to bring awareness to every stage of military life, addre... Read More ▶

Military spouses have nearly four times the unemployment rate, earn less over their lifetimes, and the almost 70% of military spouses with children at home are asked to be single parents for months at a time on top of it.... Read More ▶

We spend more than $13 billion each year on programs designed to help veterans transition to civilian life. A 2024 RAND study found we cannot clearly show that any of it is working.... Read More ▶

For a lot of veterans, the hardest part of starting a business isn't the business. It’s believing the skills they built during service are strong enough to bet on themselves outside of it. ... Read More ▶

Stephannie Addo had a problem. Going back to work meant paying for childcare for her young son, which would cost the entire paycheck. Her solution? She spent seven years building a childcare business in the Bronx that would become Scholars of the Fut... Read More ▶

The IVMF Ambassador program runs on people who show up. Not just for events or webinars, but for the veterans and military families looking for a connection, a mentor, or just some direction. This year's Impact Award winners showed up for their commu... Read More ▶