Pathways for Patriots

To meet the evolving needs of military families, ThanksUSA launched the Pathways for Patriots program to help bridge the gap between higher education and meaningful employment. In collaboration with our corporate partners, we act as a catalyst for career development opportunities that reveal military family members’ unique skillsets while alleviating their common challenges.

The Pathways program engages corporations from specific industries to create pipelines of military spouses and kids interested in pursuing post-secondary degrees, certifications, and ultimately careers in occupations that companies are struggling to fill. The initiative helps our scholars develop relationships, skills and experience through networking, internships and more.

“Your generosity has inspired me to help others and give back to under-resourced communities. Thank you very much for allowing me to gain confidence as a biomedical engineer.”

Army Dependent Dakota Sabotka

As participants of the Pathways program, we are asking our corporate partners to consider the following:

Granting scholarships in locations where they have a large presence and in academic disciplines that match specific needs or skills gaps in the industries they represent;
Engaging their employee resource groups to provide mentoring and networking opportunities for scholarship recipients;
Providing internship and work-study programs that allow scholars to apply what they are learning at school in the workplace; and
Offering, where practical, full-time employment for scholars who successfully graduate and who have proven themselves as valued employees during internships and work-study opportunities.

Please join us for a chance to provide direct assistance to military dependents with specialized skills in your industry.

CONTACT
Jon Rosa
202-643-6175
Jon@ThanksUSA.org

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