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In less than a calendar year, Johnson's family received Permanent Change of Station (PCS) orders twice. Each move required her to resign from a position and re-enter the job market in an unfamiliar location, a cycle that exacts both professional and ... Read More ▶
Two military-connected entrepreneurs: military spouse Nicole Brown and Air Force veteran Dylan Jones attended the Walmart’s Road to Open Call, where small business owners had the opportunity to pitch their products, receive feedback, and connect wi... Read More ▶
Before she married into the Coast Guard, Belverly Cutchins had been accepted to the University of Louisville's engineering program. She had the grades, the scholarships, and the trajectory. What she did not have was a labor market designed to move wi... Read More ▶
The D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) is proud to introduce the selectees of our 2026 IVMF Ambassador Program! After a rigorous selection process, we’ve chosen 42 individuals dedicated to helping veterans and military ... Read More ▶
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 ▶
