The Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service & Education Center, Inc. (PVMSEC) received a $60,000 grant to expand its capacity to train women veterans for green jobs. This grant is part of the Moving From Red Green: Working Women in the Green Economy, a Business and Professional Women’s (BPW) Foundation initiative funded by the Walmart Foundation. Today women make up 17% of the armed forces, a number that has risen considerably since the Vietnam War. As women are discharged from the military and begin to transition back into civilian life some face many barriers to obtaining employment. Reports from the Department of Defense Mental Health Task Force highlight the growing mental health problems that troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are experiencing. Nearly 50 percent of National Guard members and reservists report symptoms of mental disorders and many veterans find it difficult to access military-provided clinical care and support groups. This grant will address those barriers and give women veterans the necessary resources to obtain a successful career in the green industry.

“We would like to thank BPWF and Walmart for giving us this great opportunity to make an impact on female veterans’ lives.” said PVMSEC’s CEO, Edward Lowry. “We believe the emerging green economy offers immense employment potential for women veterans. Many women who serve in the armed forces are drawn to and have experience serving in non-traditional jobs; they are well suited to pursue careers in the green economy and we are extremely excited to start working on this initiative.”

If you would like more information contact us at: 215-923-2600.

A new version of the PVMSEC Veteran Services Toolbar is currently available. It is highly recommended that you upgrade your toolbar to enjoy the latest features, bug fixes and other enhancements.

Current PVMSEC Toolbar Users:
If you are already using our toolbar you can upgrade to the new version by clicking the link below. You do NOT need to un-install the current version you are using. Just download and install the new version and it will add the new features and enhancements to your current installation.
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The PVMSEC Employment & Training Program's staff would like congratulate the graduates of the Computer Applications Class of May 2010 for an excellent job getting through our computer training program.

We are proud of the following veterans for a job well done:

The PVMSEC Employment & Training Program's staff would like congratulate the graduates of the Computer Applications Class of March 2010 for an excellent job getting through our computer training program.

We are proud of the following veterans for a job well done:

U.S. Census Bureau
IS RECRUITING FOR

Crew Leaders - Assistant Crew Leaders - Enumerators

These short-term jobs offer good pay, flexible hours, paid training, and reimbursement for authorized work-related expenses, such as mileage incurred while conducting census work. Best of all, census takers work right in their own communities.

Census taker jobs are excellent for people who want to work part-time, those who are between jobs, or just about anyone who wants to earn extra money while performing an important service for their community.

Great news, we have a new way that you can support veteran services without costing you a single penny. Now you can help us to earn money that will go towards providing critically needed services to homeless, unemployed, and veterans in need of special attention. It’s easy and completely free. Just download and install our new PVMSEC Veteran Services Community Toolbar and you will instantly be supporting our organization and the veterans we serve. The best part is that we designed our new toolbar so everyone can benefit from using it, even if you are not a veteran. All proceeds from our toolbar go directly towards providing our services to our brave military veterans.

Our toolbar contains NO advertisements and NO spyware. No personal information is ever collected. It’s safe, secure and fun to use.

Click the image below to get our FREE toolbar.

Many people shop online during the holiday season for many reasons. The most obvious is to beat the holiday crowds and the packed parking lots. Another reason is to help needy Veterans in the Philadelphia area!

Big Online Sales on Cyber Monday 11-30 2009

Did you know that you can take advantage of great savings by shopping online tomorrow, Nov. 30^th, 2009. Cyber Monday is the biggest day for online shopping all year. All your favorite stores have special sales that you only get by shopping online. You can help veterans by using GoodShop's Online Shopping Mall to shop at your favorite stores online and save big on Cyber Monday. A percentage of virtually every purchase at more than 1,300 top stores (from Amazon to Staples) will be donated to The Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service & Education Center (PVMSEC) at no cost to you.

FYI: You can shop at GoodShop year round for great online savings. So visit often and keep supporting our veterans year round. GoodShop has hundreds of great coupons and deals too!

CLICK HERE to Visit GoodShop to Start Saving Money and Helping Veterans Now!

Please don't forget about GoodSearch, powered by yahoo search, every time you search online using goodsearch, a penny will be donated to PVMSEC.

CLICK HERE to Start Searching the Web and Helping Veterans Now!

Please feel free to forward this information to your friends and family.

Pictured below is one of the many veterans that receive services from PVMSEC


Thank you for your support.

Happy Holidays from PVMSEC

Port Richmond Cub Scout Pack # 171 collected various items to donate to homeless veterans in Philadelphia. They presented the items they collected to The Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service & Education Center at the "Riverwards Support Our Troops Rally III" at Campbell Square located at Allegheny Ave. & Belgrade St. on Veterans Day (11-11-2009).

Here's a new easy way to raise money for The Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service & Education Center, Inc. Just start using Yahoo! powered GoodSearch.com as your search engine and they'll donate a penny to PVMSEC every time you do a search! In addition, do all of your shopping through their online shopping mall, GoodShop.com, where you can shop at more than 700 top online retailers and a percentage of your purchases will also go to PVMSEC. You pay the same price as you normally would, but a donation goes to us to help homeless, unemployed, underemployed, and less fortunate area veterans!

You can also read about GoodSearch in the NY Times, Oprah Magazine, CNN, ABC News and the Wall Street Journal.

GoodSearch has toolbars for IE 6 and 7 and search box plugins for Firefox, IE7 and Safari. Follow the download and installation instructions from the link provided on the GoodSearch homepage.

On February 27, 2009 the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust awarded a $50,000 grant to The Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service & Education Center, Inc. to provide food and clothing for homeless veterans and supplement transportation costs for veterans requiring rides to and from public transportation in order to get to jobs. We would like to thank the DAV Charitable Service Trust for their trust in us to serve the veteran population most forgotten.