Media

The Yellow Ribbon Experience – 2011
Produced by The Los Angeles Film School
Directed by Navy veteran, Andrew Coles

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PRESS RELEASE

United States Marine
Correspondents
Los Angeles Chapter
From the desk of
President, USMC CCA –

Corps Combat
Association

Michael Hjelmstad,
L.A.

CONTACT:
Dave Rosen, Executive Director
Vets on Set
(818) 567-6190 x301

dave.r@vetsonset.com
www.vetsonset.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HIRING VETERANS BENEFITS EMPLOYERS
Vets Bring More Than Job Skills To The Work Place

LOS ANGELES – September 9, 2011 – Vets on Set is a non-profit

organization whose mission statement is to attain entertainment
industry jobs for US military veterans. Their main purpose
is to achieve this goal of job placement while highlighting
little known benefits to employers. Many states and cities have
incentive programs designed to financially encourage business
owners to hire a veteran.

Since it’s official start in (early July of this year) Vets on
Set has placed over 50 veterans in film, television and music
industry jobs contributing more than $20,000.00, per week to
the ‘veteran economy’.

“Our mission statement is very simple, we find jobs for veterans
in the film, music and television industry.” Said Tamara Akins,
Director of Development.

Veterans come equipped with significant job skills for the

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industry including excellent training and leadership abilities.
For an employer these job skills can be just the tip of the
iceberg. In many states and cities there are incentive programs
already in place that are designed to financially encourage
business owners to hire veterans.

“Some of the incentive programs Vets on Set have already
discovered have such significant savings for an employer that it
is unbelievable that all veterans are not gainfully employed.”
Said Dave Rosen, Executive Director. “These are not new
proposals, but existing programs already in place.”

One of the most exciting is a program called the Enterprise
Zone. Employers who hire a veteran and employ them for one year
receive $12,500 from the state. Keep them employed for 5 years
and receive $37,500. California has not only launched such a
program, it has successfully been in effect for years. The state
issues a credit voucher for each vet hired. This voucher can be
considered the same as cash for payment that a business owes on
their California State Tax.

The tax credit is geographical in nature, which means that
companies who are allowed to participate must be located in an
Enterprise Zone. The second major qualifier is that the veteran
must have either served and been honorably discharged in the
last four years of the date of hire, or be a Vietnam era veteran

“We are pleased that we place on average, one veteran a day.”
Said Akins. “We want to reach a state of automation, where
hundreds of jobs are being processed every week and we become
the go to organization for major productions.”

Vets on Set continues the mission of finding jobs and building
rosters of highly qualified young men and women. Second only
to the jobs is the need to focus on fundraising as much as
possible.

“We’ve been so successful, so fast that the organization is
growing faster than the structure,” said Rosen. “It had to be
about the jobs first. Now that we are getting a steady flow
of jobs and veterans to fill them we need to establish the
foundation of Vets on set.”

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Vets on Set has had support ranging in level from help with
the website to corporate sponsorship. A great deal of work has
been done, and there is a lot more to do. As a nonprofit the
operational cost depends on the support of donations.

For more information, please visit the Vets on Set website at
www.vetsonset.com

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For more information on the details of Enterprise Zone or
how an individual or organization can get involved with
Vets on Set Please email Dave Rosen, Executive Director:
dave.r@vetsonset.com or Tamara Akins, Director of Development:
tamara.a@vetsonset.com or call the Vets on Set office at: (818)
567-6190 x301.