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Grant Received for Work with Purpose

Grant Received for Work with Purpose

Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services is honored to announce a $348,000 grant from a partner foundation. This investment will be used to assist in the growth of our flagship project working with organizations to assist transitioning service members, veterans, and their families to achieve economic empowerment.

Our partnership supports service members before and after they exit the military and provides a clear path for increased quality of life and stability. As we begin our seventh year of working together, the foundation’s investment in Dixon Center has created growth with multiple independent partner organizations.

Working together our collaborators are providing training resulting in credentialing, commercial driver licenses and certifications leading to meaningful employment in the transportation industry and building trades.

The foundation has been making investments across the country through grants that have a profound effect on underserved populations, including those who have fought for our country.

This grant will allow us to build on the success we’ve achieved in assisting thousands of veterans across the nations with the opportunity to work with purpose.

If you are interested in learning more about our projects leading to Work with Purpose for veterans and their families and joining our partnerships contact Vanessa Stergios, Director of Development at vstergios@dixoncenter.org.

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Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services is very appreciative of all our volunteer Command Council. Dixon Center’s Command Council serves as an advisory board. Our members work with our leadership and provide advice on matters that directly concern programs and fundraising efforts.

Latrese Dixon – Blue and Gold Star Family Partner
John Anderson – Spring Creek Partners and Anderson Enterprises
John Coonradt – USMC for Life
Rick Freedman – Eugene and Ruth Freedman Family Foundation
Danny Gardner – Affordable Housing Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Tommy Haire – Soldier for Life
Brian Hull – UBS Americas
Bob McCann – NewEdge Wealth
Christine McMahon – The Fedcap Group
Holly Metzger – Artist
Jerry Pascucci – UBS Americas
Colonel David Sutherland, U.S. Army (Ret.) – Chairman
Tim Thorne – Workforce Development SME
Edward Wenzel – Edward Wenzel Associates
James E. Williams Jr. – Nonprofit Executive SME

Thank you for being a volunteer and for sharing our noble purpose: to make the lives of our veterans and their families better. 

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Our nation owes an eternal debt of gratitude for their sacrifice and that of their families. Today’s veterans can talk about their combat experiences in large part because our Vietnam veterans could not or would not. Much of our battlefield knowledge and effectiveness can be attributed to what we learned from our Vietnam veterans. Thankfully, our nation has learned how to separate the warrior from the wars because of the way this generation of veterans dealt with the adversity of coming home from combat. Today and every day, at Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services, we work to honor their service and vow to double-down on our efforts to include this generation of veterans and their families. With your help we have been able to make the lives of all generations of veterans better.

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On Thursday, December 16, The Fedcap Group reported its operating and financial results for fiscal year 2021 ended September 30, 2021. These biannual presentations provide our investors including donor and funders, supply chain and other key stakeholders with regular and timely disclosures about financial and operational performance, mission-related impact, and trends and challenges for The Fedcap Group, while underscoring our commitment to fiscal transparency. View the press release.
Highlights from a very successful year—include double digit revenue growth reflecting both organic and acquisition growth, contract awards exceeding $435 million, an expanded international footprint, and the acquisition of Civic Hall, a high profile and innovative provider of advanced technology training solutions.

Year-on-year revenue growth of 23% in fiscal 2021 was led by full year contributions from our large Canadian workforce development contract and from our FY 202 acquisition of APEX Technical School, a New York City institution having graduated over 40,000 people as plumbers, electricians and other high-demand trades. Additionally, we ramped up our substantial new contract in the UK, valued at $267 million, to provide support for people who are unemployed as a direct impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Christine McMahon, CEO of The Fedcap Group
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COLONEL DUNCAN S. MILNE
U.S. MARINE CORPS (RET.), PRESIDENT

COLONEL DUNCAN S. MILNE
U.S. MARINE CORPS (RET.), PRESIDENT

Colonel Duncan S. Milne is the President of Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Services.

Colonel Milne is an experienced leader with 25 years of active duty combat and non-combat experience in the United States Marine Corps. While on active duty, he primarily served as an AH-1W attack helicopter pilot.  Colonel Milne has served at the highest levels of our military and government, including in the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Colonel Milne’s career after active duty has been dedicated in service to those who have had the honor and courage to wear our nation’s military uniform, and he brought his knowledge on interagency coordination and executive-level private sector interaction to the Center in 2015.

Colonel Milne is the recipient of numerous combat, operational, and support awards. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a Master of Military Operational Art and Science from the Air War College, and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College.