Illinois Joining Forces Re

| Read Our Blog Read Our Blog Blog Illinois Joining Forces: Re-Boot Summit Megan Hammond December 14, 2015 Workforce zero On Thursday, Dec. 10, Illinois Joining Forces (IJF) hosted its 2015 Re-Boot Summit for a group of organizations and individuals that contribute to veterans philanthropy all through Illinois. The Re-Boot Summit was appropriately held on the Union League Club of Chicago which is the place IJF was founded in 2012. Since its formation three years ago, the mission of IJF stays the identical: Collaborating in individual and on-line to help service members, veterans, and their families identify and marshal assets and companies obtainable to them all through the state. IJF is a group of veterans service organizations that present a multitude of companies together with housing, healthcare, employment, legal, financial, partner and household help and more! National Able Network(Able) is a member group of IJF, the state’s chapter of the White House’s Joining Forces initiative, and leads the Employment and Job Training committee. Able’s Chief Operating Officer, Bridget Altenburg, just lately launched members of IJF with a framework of finest-practices for engaging companies and put collectively a set of recommendations about how veteran-service organizations can higher collaborate to help veteran job seekers more seamlessly transition into civilian employment. Throughout the Re-Boot Summit, there was lots of dialogue round veteran providers organizations’ camaraderie and ideas and ideas about what they will do to higher serve the ever-changing panorama of Illinois’s veteran inhabitants and their households. Another primary theme of the summit was the concept of “re-booting.” IJF recently re-booted its whole website to make it extra comprehensive and straightforward-to-use for each organizations and veterans which will be totally launched by next week. IJF has additionally re-booted its method to serving veterans by acknowledging targets of member organizations, figuring out the on-going wants of veterans and their households, growing new partnerships, collaborating with public companions, and expanding their outreach all through Illinois! Stay tuned for for the disclosing of IJF’s new website later this week! Click right here for extra data. (Photo: Executive Director of Illinois Joining Forces, Kenneth Barber, speaking at the Re-Boot Summit on Dec. 10) Your email tackle won't be published. Required fields are marked * Comment Name * Email * Website Subscribe me to your mailing record Receive our newsletters, breaking information alerts, and extra! Veterans Forward Orientation Careers by National Able Network: An Online Orientation for Nebraska Residents! Careers by National Able Network: An Online Orientation for Illinois Residents! View More…