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Blue Owl Capital employees came together at the firm’s New York headquarters to build interview kits for veterans in our workforce development program. Inside each one:
Blue Owl Capital is a leading asset manager overseeing $319 billion in assets. Their BOSS and VALOR employee resource groups brought this idea to us and built the day with our team.
Our workforce development work is built on the idea that a job pays this month’s expenses, but a career builds long term financial stability. We help veterans get trained, get hired, and manage what they earn. Every year this work reaches more veterans, and every year more partners step up to build it with us.
If your company would like to spend a day with us, reach out to us at partners@bvsj.org. Let’s support the next generation of veteran leaders. |
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Saturday night we turn Antun’s into A Night at the Oscars! This is 47 years of Black Veterans for Social Justice in one room, on a red carpet, and we want you there……. but we only have a few tickets left!
Watch the red carpet interviews and arrivals live on our YouTube channel.
See you Saturday! |
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On September 11, 2001, while thousands fled the World Trade Center, firefighters, police officers, EMS workers, and everyday people rushed inside to help others get out. Nearly 3,000 lives were lost, and twenty five years later New York still carries their memory.
Team RWB is bringing people to Citi Field to climb 2,200 stairs in their memory, and we will be there.
Register here! |
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This weekend we launched our Veterans Everyday Culinary Program. Over the next month, veterans will train under renowned Chef Joel Henriquez, learning the skills of a professional kitchen, from knife work to cooking and preparation. When they finish, they will be ready to step into one of the toughest and most rewarding industries in New York.
The program was built alongside the Jacques Pépin Foundation, established by the legendary French chef who has devoted his later career to funding culinary training for people seeking a fresh start. Promise Hospitality Group, the team behind some of the city’s most respected kitchens, leads the instruction.
Kathleen Diperna of Promise Hospitality Group helped shaped the program from the beginning and brought decades of workforce training experience to its design.
For BVSJ, this is what workforce development looks like: a direct line from training to employment. Veterans bring discipline, composure, and the ability to perform under pressure. A professional kitchen asks for exactly those things.
The first class graduates at the end of this month, and we are just getting started. |
