Call Of Duty Opens Seal Of Distinction Endowment Submissions

<p>The <em>Call of Duty<&sol;em> Endowment has begun its application process for the sixth annual Seal of Distinction Awards&period; This is an award recognizing U&period;S&period; and U&period;K&period; based non-profits that demonstrate the highest levels of effectiveness&comma; efficiency&comma; and integrity in placing ex-service personnel into high-quality jobs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As a result of the charity&comma; hundreds of ex-service personnel have found high-quality jobs&period; Because of this&comma; the charity is continuing to double-down on their efforts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>60&percnt; Increase<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Dan Goldenberg&comma; Executive Director of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;call&plus;of&plus;duty"><em>Call of Duty<&sol;em><&sol;a> Endowment&comma; spoke about the endowment entering its sixth year&comma; saying&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>We are honored to continue the &OpenCurlyQuote;Seal of Distinction’ program into its sixth year&period;<&sol;em> We’ve seen a growing demand from ex-service personnel for help securing high-quality careers—a 60&percnt; increase last year alone—and we’re committed to finding and funding the highest performing non-profits that successfully address this challenge in both the U&period;S&period; and U&period;K&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-124743" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;26133439&sol;CallofDuty&lowbar;WWII&lowbar;Screen2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Call of Duty&colon; WWII" width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1080" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Applications can be submitted June 1&comma; 2018&period; Nominees for the Seal of Distinction must meet a number of criteria&comma; including&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>The organization must be a charitable&comma; non-profit&comma; with 501©&lpar;3&rpar; status &lpar;or&comma; in the case of the U&period;K&period;&comma; a charity determined to have the equivalent status&period;&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Furthermore&comma; their mission must include directly assisting unemployed and underemployed ex-service personnel&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Key employees will need background checks to see a variety of organizational and financial health indicators&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>In addition to that&comma; applicants must not be a previous Seal of Distinction winner&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<h2>Extensive Grants<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>The <em>Call of Duty<&sol;em> Endowment launched the Seal of Distinction in August 2013&period; In its sixth year of operation&comma; the program has awarded &dollar;27&period;6 million in grants&period; Every &dollar;504 dollars donated is enough to help place a veteran&period; The charity has an ambitious goal of placing 50&comma;000 ex-service personnel into high-quality jobs by 2019&period; However&comma; the program has placed more than 46&comma;000 ex-service personnel into full-time jobs&period; Most of all&comma; these come with an average salary of &dollar;58&comma;000&period; Furthermore&comma; any veteran looking for help finding a job can apply for aid at their <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;callofdutyendowment&period;org&sol;veteran&lowbar;support" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">site<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Previous Winners and Fundraisers<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Last years winners included the Goodwill of Southern California and the Goodwill of Olympics and Rainer Region&period; Also&comma; Next Op Veterans received an endowment&period; And in the U&period;K&period; RFEA and Walking with the wounded received endowments as well&period; In the past&comma; the sale of limited edition dog tags has helped to fund this project&period; Keep an eye out as they may announce new tags with Call of Duty&&num;8217&semi;s Black Watch 4 trailer at E3&period; E3 runs June 12th through 14th&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;