FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Operation: Job Ready Veterans Awarded
Candid’s Highest Seal of Transparency
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (May 31, 2024) – Operation: Job Ready Veterans (OJRV) is honored to announce it has earned a 2024 Platinum Seal of Transparency, marking the fifth consecutive year OJRV has been awarded Candid’s highest level of recognition. Candid is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing the world’s most comprehensive data tools on nonprofits, foundations, and grants.
Through Candid’s seals, nonprofit organizations can communicate important information about their mission as well as their impact in the communities they serve. Candid’s Seals of Transparency recognize the commitment nonprofits make to being transparent, giving donors and funders meaningful data to evaluate its impact so they can make informed giving decisions.
“We are excited to be recognized by Candid for a fifth consecutive year,” says Gene Anderson, OJRV’s executive director. “Having our commitment to transparent communication with the public, with potential funders, and with all those we serve recognized in this way is a great honor. More importantly, through our Candid profile we know that those who financially support our work can rest confident in their investment in our mission and know that they directly, positively impact those we serve—veterans, service members, and military families.”
To achieve the platinum level, OJRV shared extensive information in its nonprofit profile on Candid.org, including a strategic plan detailing organizational goals and how they will be achieved as well as updated metrics to define its impact and outcomes. Nonprofit organizations that earn the Platinum Seal of Transparency must also have completed the requirements for the bronze, silver, and gold seals. By transparently sharing metrics that highlight the progress OJRV is making toward its mission, the organization is helping donors set a higher standard for conscientious stewardship and providing concrete tools for nonprofit evaluation to inform their decision-making.
OJRV constantly seeks to employ best practices in its work with clients—best practices guided by its mission as well as the most current data points available. With a solid history of successfully supporting veterans, service members, and military families through periods of transition, economic instability, underemployment, and unemployment, OJRV is proud to see recognition of its efforts to promote transparency and lasting impact by organizations like Candid.
About Candid
Foundation Center and GuideStar joined forces in 2019 to become Candid, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Every year, millions of nonprofits spend trillions of dollars around the world. Candid finds out where that money comes from, where it goes, and why it matters. Candid’s combined data collections from GuideStar and Foundation Center represent the world’s largest information source on nonprofits, foundations, and the funding that flows between them. Through research, collaboration, and training, Candid connects people who want to change the world to the resources they need to do it. GuideStar is the most complete source of information about U.S. charities and other nonprofit organizations there is. As the premier destination for nonprofits and nonprofit research, its database of more than 2 million IRS-recognized organizations allows you to find a charity to support, benchmark your own nonprofit’s performance, research the sector, and more.
Find out more at candid.org and on X @CandidDotOrg.
About Operation: Job Ready Veterans (OJRV)
Bridging life’s transitional gaps for veterans, service members, and military families.
Operation: Job Ready Veterans is a Midwest-based nonprofit organization dedicated to preparing veterans, service members, military spouses, and their dependents for entry into the civilian workforce. OJRV focuses on transition, job readiness, and career placement, providing employment readiness training and specialized job placement to personnel from all military branches, service eras, and ability levels. The nonprofit’s mission is to bridge life’s transitional gaps for veterans, service members, and military families by empowering them to meet their individual employment and career goals.
Website: ojrv.org
Facebook: jobreadyvets
LinkedIn: job-ready-veterans
GreatNonprofits profile: greatnonprofits.org/org/career-learning-employment-center-for-veterans-inc
Media Contact Information
Jessica Bertsch
JBertsch@jobreadyvets.org
+1.757.773.7357
Perla Ni
GreatNonprofits
650.249.3792
perlani@greatnonprofits.org
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