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Call of Duty Endowment Bestows another Grant

By pete_gallagher

Activision Blizzard's non-profit The Call of Duty Endowment (CODE) has announced plans to donate $25,000 to Swords to Plowshares, a San Francisco Bay Area service organization that provides counseling, training and placement assistance to veterans.

Swords to Plowshares was formed in 1974 and helps over 2,000 homeless and low-income veterans a year. Given that the unemployment rate for young Iraq and Afghanistan veterans was put at 21.1 percent earlier this year by the U.S. Labor Department, the money seems well channeled.

Executive Director Michael Blecker touched on what the money would mean for the organization, 'The funding provided by the Call of Duty Endowment will ensure that we can continue to provide the face-to-face counseling for our veterans, which is critical in the effort to connect them with local employers that want to utilize their experiences as proven leaders and superior skill set.' Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 01, 2010 (boomark / email).