Veterans’ Day Comes Early for The Howard Keating Show Listeners

24-Hour Web-a-thon Will Connect Vets With Jobs, Financing and Franchise Opportunities

DETROIT – Veterans’ Day is observed every November, but for America’s veterans and listeners ofThe Howard Keating Show (www.keatingnetwork.com), the holiday will come early this year as Howard hosts a 24-hour national Web-a-thon to benefit struggling veterans and their families.

From 5:00 pm EDT on April 6 until 5:00 pm the next day, Howard will honor America’s most-important heroes by giving them what they need most – access to jobs and a better financial future. By bringing together authors, job boards, financing experts, franchising representatives, social services professionals, entertainers and a their fellow active soldiers Howard will be doing his part to end the national shame of poverty and hopelessness among so many of our veterans.

For more than 30 years, Howard Keating – a veteran himself -- has been one of the nation’s strongest advocates for supporting small, developing or minority-owned businesses. He has been involved with over 25 start-ups and 16 turnarounds and his expertise spans everything from manufacturing, to software, to electronics, to land development, to health care. He has deep roots with the intricacies of federal programs and he organized and chaired the World Summit for Small Businesses in Washington D.C.

For this live, interactive Web-a-thon, over 60 associations and 200 companies have pledged to help our returned soldiers:

 Get a new job;

 Start a business;

 Expand their business; and

 Obtain up to $25,000 in business development loans.

"Our goal for this program is to get 1,000 veterans to apply for a job, and make 1,000 business contracts available to veterans," said Howard Keating, CEO of Keating Network and host of The Howard Keating Show. "This is just the beginning. We will continue these Web-a-thons until all of our veterans and their families have established the financial independence they so deserve."

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Philco's Freedom Team & Project New Hope to be featured in the event!!

Kurt Philion, head of Philco’s Freedom Team from Mahnomen, MN will be making an appearance on the Howard Keating Show – a special 24 hour web-a-thon dedicated to the troops and war vets.

Philco’s Freedom Team will be featured at 11:20pm Central time Wednesday April 6th to discuss their involvement in supporting war vets and running for fallen soldiers in marathon events throughout the region and this year, the nation. 

 

“I was contacted by Susan Wellman, the public relations director for the show to be part of this web-a-thon.  It’s a great thing for our war vets and troops to get more recognition and a chance to set a large number of them up with jobs or business opportunities for when they return.  There are about 50 guests from around the nation that will be part of the show.  It’s a huge honor to be part of their lineup in efforts to help promote Philco’s Freedom Team and the organization we’re aligned with, Project New Hope.”
 - Kurt Philion