LVMAC Tidbit — Operation Homefront Says “Come Home Again.”

Operation Homefront through its Homes on the Homefront program wants to help military veterans and their families realize their own American dreams. It continues to receive donated homes to award to deserving military families around the country through partners like Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Meritage Homes. The homes are renovated to “move in ready” standards and ultimately deeded over subject to certain conditions being met.

Homes on the Homefront, Easton, 29Oct2014A home in Easton has just become available for a deserving and eligible military veteran family.  Those interested must apply by 8 November, currently. (more…)

Forward Observer — When It Comes to Veterans, Strange Bedfellows on Display 5 November: LU’s SDBC and CADCB

LVMAC Poster Art 2005Something queer for the good has happened.  All of a sudden the Community Action Development Corporation of Bethlehem (CADCB) has taken an interest in veterans’ entrepreneurship.  It is ‘partnering’ with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to offer a seminar about entrepreneurship opportunities for veterans on  5 November at the Fowler Center in South Bethlehem (click on the flyer thumbnail below and to the right).   Actually the SBA partner is Lehigh University’s Small Business Development Center (together with Kutztown University’s, often hidden secret to veterans from the Lehigh Valley interested in starting a business). (more…)