Giving Tuesday: Activision Asks Players to Support Veterans through Endowment

The Call of Duty: WWII cast is asking for support of veteran unemployment and underemployment this Giving Tuesday. Watch as Josh Duhamel, Brett Zimmerman, Jonathan Tucker, Jeffrey Pierce, Jeff Schine, and Kevin Coubal show their support for the Call of Duty Endowment, an award-winning non-profit that helps veterans find high quality careers by supporting groups that prepare them for the job market and by raising awareness of the value vets bring to the workplace.

The Call of Duty Endowment is a non-profit foundation co-founded by Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard. The Endowment helps veterans find high quality careers by supporting groups that prepare them for the job market and by raising awareness of the value vets bring to the workplace.

The Endowment recently completed their annual Race To Prestige, an multi-day, 24-hour, race of the latest Call of Duty installment, during which viewers are encouraged to donate to the cause. This year, over $250,000 was raised. Every dollar will go directly to aiding best-in-class organizations nationwide that help place veterans into high-quality employment. This year, #TheRace welcomed Call of Duty: WWII cast members who assisted with the success by participating in the online stream.

In 2017, The Call of Duty Endowment was proud to announce that an expansion of efforts internationally, to the United Kingdom. These efforts will focus on providing employment support to veterans of Britain’s armed forces, with the goal of finding them high-quality jobs that fully leverage their experience, character, skills and education.

For more information about the Call of Duty Endowment, please visit www.callofdutyendowment.org.

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John Breeden II
As a journalist John has covered everything from rural town meetings to the U.S. Congress and even done time as a crime reporter and photographer.|His first venture into writing about the game industry came in the form of a computer column called "On the Chip Side," which grew to have over 1 million circulation and was published in newspapers in several states. From there he did several "ask the computer guy" columns in magazines such as Up Front! in New Mexico and Who Cares? in Washington D.C. When the Internet started to become popular, he began writing guided Web tours for the newly launched Washington Post online section as well as reviews for the weekend section of the paper, something he still does from time to time. His experience in trade publications came as a writer and reviewer for Government Computer News. As the editor of GiN, he demands strict editorial standards from all the writers and reviewers. Breeden feels the industry needs a weekly, reliable trade publication covering the games industry and works tirelessly to accomplish that goal.