Florida Is For Veterans Inc

Programs: Veterans florida is a non-profit corporation created by the state of florida in 2014 to help veterans fully transition to civilian life in the sunshine state. We connect veterans to employers, grant funds to employers to hire and train veterans, and educate veterans on how to open their own businesses in the florida. Veterans florida is backed by the state of florida. Our board is appointed by the governor, speaker of the florida house of representatives, and the president of the florida senate. Additionally, our staff is composed of veterans with experience in state veterans' programs, economic development, and workforce development. Our unique programs assist florida businesses recruit, train, and hire veterans to meet workforce needs. Every business has a need for a talented workforce and today's veterans are a great fit for any company looking for hard-working, intelligent men and women with a unique mission-focused attitude. Veterans florida is here to help florida businesses recruit, hire and train america's best talent resource, our veterans. The veterans florida career portal was recently launched as a way to connect veterans who live or would like to move to florida with employers in the state. Businesses can register for a free account on our website, which gives them the ability to post their job announcements and search our resume database. For employers without their own applicant tracking system, this system has some great tools to help them track their job announcements performance, screen and manage candidates, as well as track their hiring activity from first contact through to the final employment offer. Larger employers with their own applicant tracking systems can link the job postings on the veterans florida career portal to their own site. We can also setup an automated feed of jobs from company's website to ours. Veterans florida works with visit florida to administer a comprehensive, nationwide advertising campaign that draws hundreds of thousands of veterans and their families to our website to learn more about the benefits and opportunities available for them in the sunshine state. By working with veterans florida, businesses can tap into this audience and recruit from america's best talent resource: our veterans. Veterans florida also manages two statutory grant programs, the veterans florida business training grant program and the veterans florida entrepreneurship program. The veterans florida business training grant program provides grant funding for customized, skills-based curriculum development and training, through partial reimbursement, to businesses in florida's targeted, high-growth and high-wage industries (qualified targeted industries). These are high-skill industries producing goods or services and wages generally 125 percent above state or local wages. The program is a state-funded grant program that provides funding to qualifying businesses to train their new, full-time employees. Funding is provided in the form of a performancebased reimbursable grant, for a 12-month maximum term per new employee. A business pays for pre-approved, direct training-related costs and is reimbursed by veterans florida upon submission of required documentation. Also, a business may apply for and receive funds concurrently with the quick response training program or florida flex grants administered by careersource florida. Our veterans florida entrepreneurship program helped over 160 veterans start their own businesses in 2016 and we're gearing up to start the next program in january. The program is administered by veterans florida and instruction is delivered by a network of seven state universities and colleges. Our curriculum is based on the nationally recognized lean startup method and was collaboratively design by our network partners. This year's program features two phases. Beginning with 15 weeks of instruction where students attend full-day workshops every other saturday while completing online coursework in between. After graduating from education phase, the students are paired with mentors from their local business community or consultants from the small business development centers at each institution so they always have someone to help them while they are launching their businesses.