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Blog Construction
The Mission Continues
Blog Construction
Project details
What we need
Having just launched a new website and brand, we'd like to launch a new blog. We have content, a dedicated team member to steer the project, and some WordPress and blogging experience.
We need someone to help us create a customized blog design and to help us implement and configure it using the WordPress platform.
What we have in place
- We currently have lots of content, a strong brand and some WordPress experience which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have a brand new website to be used as reference (we'd like the blog and our existing website to be similar) and a dedicated team member to work with you, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $4,000 , allowing us to engage 30 veterans to lead community service projects for one year in their city.
We work with veterans — lots of them. We engage them in community service, so they're becoming citizen leaders as they transition out of the military and continue serving. This means we have stories — lots of them.
In 2013, we were featured on the cover of TIME magazine, and on the Daily Show. We're growing, and we need a place to share these stories. A blog would allow us to tell the stories of our veterans, and inspire others to serve in new ways here at home.
Project plan
Posted by
Laura L.
VP, Brand & Communications
Our mission
The Mission Continues empowers veterans facing the challenge of adjusting to life at home to find new missions. We redeploy veterans in their communities so that their shared legacy will be one of action and service.
What we do
More than 1 million service members will separate from the military and transition into civilian life during the next 4 years. They have made tremendous sacrifices during the past decade of war.
At the Mission Continues, we strongly believe veterans are assets. We need them, and believe they have more to give when they come back home. We owe them more than a "thank you" — we owe them a successful transition.
The Mission Continues is a national non-profit organization that empowers veterans to continue serving through two action-orientated programs: the Fellowship Program and Service Platoons.
Through The Mission Continues Fellowship program, post-9/11 veterans continue serving through six-month community service fellowships. For 26 weeks, Mission Continues Fellows volunteer for 20 hours a week at a non-profit organization or governmental agency of their choice. They also complete a curriculum designed to propel them into their next phase of life, whether it’s meaningful employment or higher education. Fellows also receive a living stipend while serving. Fellows have served at more than 500 nonprofits, including Boys and Girls Club, Equest Therapeutic Horsemanship, American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, Growing Washington and The Humane Society, contributing more than $7 million worth of services since 2007.
Mission Continues Service Platoons are teams of 30 to 45 veterans and civilians led by alumni of the Fellowship Program. Platoons work together on the local level to tackle a specific mission through one- or two-day service projects. In Washington, D.C., a platoon strives to reduce hunger among inner-city youth. In Phoenix, a platoon aims to eradicate veteran homelessness. Twenty-five platoons are launching across the country in 2014, tackling issues from inside the community.
Testimonials
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Very smart and nice people. The do good work.
