We build the tools that carry service members from readiness in uniform, through transition, into work.
The resources exist. Veterans just can't find them.
Benefits enrollment, employment, housing, mental health support — all of it is out there, scattered across systems that were never built to work together. Most veterans find it years late, after the crisis has already arrived. Everything we build exists to close that gap.
Free scoring calculators for every branch — Army AFT, Marine Corps PFT and CFT, Navy PRT, Air Force PFRA, Space Force HPA, Coast Guard PFT — built on the official tables and kept current.
The organizations that serve veterans, in one place: housing, mental health, legal aid, education, financial help and more — so the help is findable the week it's needed.
What the rating rules actually say, with the regulation cited — and every VA-accredited representative by state, all of whom help at no cost. Built against an industry that charges veterans for work the law says is free.
Every state runs its own benefits on top of the federal ones — property tax exemptions, tuition waivers, free licenses, hiring preference, nursing homes. All fifty states and the District of Columbia, with the state’s own statute or agency cited for every figure.
Every SBA-certified veteran-owned business in one directory, each linking to its own record at SBA so a contracting officer can verify it in a click. Plus what each state offers a veteran business owner, and the federal set-asides open right now.
What the GI Bill actually covers at a given school, worked out from VA’s published rates — plus Yellow Ribbon, credit for military training, apprenticeships, and what to do when the benefit doesn’t stretch far enough. No sponsored schools, no leads sold.
A finished resume for your job code, written at your rank, free to print. The example does what advice can’t — it shows you the page you’re trying to write.
Every veteran job fair on the national schedule, by state and by city, with the local and overseas events nobody else collects. Free to attend, free to list.
A job board for employers who want military experience, with free tools that translate a job code into civilian terms, build the resume and prepare for the interview. 50% of every posting fee funds the organization that referred the employer.
The businesses that honor military service, gathered and sorted — national brands through local shops, year-round and on Veterans Day.
A directory is only ever as good as its listings, and listings go stale. Phone numbers change, programs close, a link that worked last year lands on a redesigned site with no trace of the service it described. The veteran who follows that link hits a wall at the worst possible moment, and most don't try twice.
Nobody can keep thousands of listings accurate from the outside. The only people who know a program moved, changed its intake hours or stopped running are the people running it. For them it's a two-minute edit.
So we're not asking organizations to maintain a listing out of goodwill. We're building programs that pay them — because an organization that claims its listing, keeps it current, and links straight to each of its programs rather than its homepage is doing something that also funds its own mission.
That last part matters more than it sounds. A veteran looking for emergency housing shouldn't land on a homepage built for donors and have to hunt. Only the organization can supply the direct link.
Keep your listing accurate and a veteran finds you the week they need you. That's the whole idea, and it only works if enough of us take part.
Most veteran job boards are owned by companies. Ours is owned by a nonprofit, which means the posting fee can go somewhere more useful than an advertising budget.
When a veteran organization, creator or recruiter sends an employer to HireAVeteran.org through their referral link, half of what that employer pays goes straight back to them — on that posting and every one afterward. The employer reaches veterans through the people those veterans already trust, and the organizations doing the work get funded for something already inside their mission.
If you run an organization, write a newsletter, host a podcast or place veterans for a living, the partner program is open.
Keeping the directory current, building the next tool, and keeping all of it free is paid for by donors. You can give by card, bank transfer, donor-advised fund, stock or cryptocurrency — or donate a vehicle you no longer need.
All of it free — to veterans, active duty, spouses and families.
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