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American Corporate Partners (ACP) is a non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

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based in New York City dedicated to helping recently separated members of the armed services transition to the private sector. ACP provides veterans who have served on active duty since 2001 with free career counseling and networking opportunities. ACP partners with American corporations and universities whose employees volunteer to mentor a veteran in a yearlong mentorship. During the year, pairs are encouraged to identify and work on a variety of transition issues including civilian career building, work-life balance, personal finance, and networking in the private sector.

ACP Program

Mission and Goals

ACP’s mission is to strengthen the relationship between employees of America’s leading corporations and those who have recently served our country, often at great personal sacrifice. ACP has three primary goals:

1. Assist in the transition from the United States Armed Forces

United States armed forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States. They consist of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard.The United States has a strong tradition of civilian control of the military...

to the corporate sector for those who have served their country.

2. Grow and strengthen the network of veterans and corporate leaders in the private sector

Private sector

In economics, the private sector is that part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is run by private individuals or groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not controlled by the state...

.

3. Provide veterans with opportunities to leverage past military skills and experiences in their career development

Career development

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.

Key Aspects

ACP is a nationwide mentoring program currently serving over 800 transitioning veterans. The program is administered through its office in New York City and has a presence in most major cities across the United States. ACP is not a formal jobs program. It is a tool for networking and long-term career development.

ACP considers Veteran Protégé applications from all interested and qualified service members who have served on active duty since 2001 and gives preference to those who have been deployed in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as those with service-related disabilities. Spouses of those service members severely wounded or who died while serving are also welcome to apply. Mentors must be employees of ACP’s Corporate Partners. Corporate Mentors represent a wide array of business expertise, including disciplines such as management, finance, marketing, sales, law, logistics, operations, and teaching.

Protégés and Mentors are matched one-on-one according to their mentoring preferences. The mentoring commitment is for one year and pairs are encouraged to communicate frequently, with the goal of twelve ‘significant discussions’ during the year to be decided on mutually by the Mentor and Protégé.

ACP AdvisorNet

To assist more veterans with their professional goals, ACP launched a brand new program on Veterans Day 2011: ACP AdvisorNet. www.acp-advisornet.org

The first of its kind, ACP AdvisorNet is a free, online community connecting veterans with business leaders across the country. Through an interactive, easy-to-use, and ad-free interface, veterans can ask questions about career development, employment, and small business; and volunteer advisors can share advice on topics related to their expertise. Users can follow topics and Q&A threads as well as send private messages to initiate offline conversations.

ACP AdvisorNet is available to all current and former members of the US Military, their immediate family members, and business leaders looking to share their expertise and advice. And all users can see the professional and/or military backgrounds of other users, promoting an environment of accountability and trust.

History

2008

Sidney E. Goodfriend, a retired investment banker, founded American Corporate Partners, which launched on Labor Day

Labor Day

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of 2008. Mr. Goodfriend credits his own success in the corporate world to strong mentoring relationships and holds a great appreciation for the US Armed Forces. The founding corporate partners include Campbell Soup, General Electric

General Electric

General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...

, Home Depot, Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....

, PepsiCo

PepsiCo

PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...

and Verizon. Within its first year, ACP received more than 1800 applications from US veterans across the country for 300 spots with a Corporate Mentor.

2009

ACP significantly expanded its program to welcome new Participating Institutions, locations, and an E-Mentoring component in 2009. The new Participating Institutions include Energy Future Holdings Corporation, IBM Corporation, MacAndrews & Forbes, News Corporation

News Corporation

News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...

, URS Corporation, and The University of Texas System.

The E-mentoring

E-mentoring

ementoring is a means of providing a guided mentoring relationship using online software or email. It stemmed from mentoring programs with the invention of the internet, and began to gain popularity around 1993...

component was developed in order to meet the needs of those veterans located outside of ACP's participating cities. The E-Mentoring program provides veteran applicants an opportunity to be mentored regardless of their geographical location. The E-mentoring component of the program does not require the Mentor and Protégé to meet face to-face. Instead, matched pairs use video-conferencing, email, and phone conversations to conduct the mentoring partnership.

2010

ACP continued to add partners and locations as the program grows. In February 2010, Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg L.P. is an American privately held financial software, media, and data company. Bloomberg makes up one third of the $16 billion global financial data market with estimated revenue of $6.9 billion. Bloomberg L.P...

, Deloitte and Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

joined the program. In the summer of 2010, General Dynamics

General Dynamics

General Dynamics Corporation is a U.S. defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures, and as of 2008 it is the fifth largest defense contractor in the world. Its headquarters are in West Falls Church , unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, in the Falls Church area.The company has...

, Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...

, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational banking corporation of securities, investments and retail. It is the largest bank in the United States by assets and market capitalization.It is a major provider of financial services, with assets of $2 trillion and according to Forbes magazine is...

, Liberty Mutual Group, Omnicom Group

Omnicom Group

Omnicom Group is a holding company whose agencies provide marketing and communications services in the disciplines of advertising, customer relationship management , strategic media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and...

, and Siemens

Siemens

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joined the program. In the fall of 2010, AT&T

AT&T

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...

, Kansas State University

Kansas State University

Kansas State University, commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States...

, HP, Travelers and Aon

Aon

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all became Participating Institutions. ACP is supported by a bipartisan Advisory Council including retired Richard Myers

Richard Myers

Richard Bowman Myers is a retired four-star general in the United States Air Force and served as the 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As Chairman, Myers was the United States military's highest ranking uniformed officer....

and Peter Pace

Peter Pace

Peter Pace is a retired United States Marine Corps general who served as the 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the first Marine appointed to the United States' highest-ranking military office. Appointed by President George W. Bush, Pace succeeded U.S. Air Force General Richard Myers on...

, former Senators Robert Dole and George Mitchell

George J. Mitchell

George John Mitchell, Jr., is the former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under the Obama administration. A Democrat, Mitchell was a United States Senator who served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995...

, and former Cabinet-level officials Lawrence Summers

Lawrence Summers

Lawrence Henry Summers is an American economist. He served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was Director of the White House United States National Economic Council for President Barack Obama until November 2010.Summers is the...

and Paul Wolfowitz

Paul Wolfowitz

Paul Dundes Wolfowitz is a former United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, President of the World Bank, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University...

.

2011

With over 1,500 Mentors volunteering to mentor a Veteran Protégé, ACP is continuing to expand its program. Alcoa

Alcoa

Alcoa Inc. is the world's third largest producer of aluminum, behind Rio Tinto Alcan and Rusal. From its operational headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Alcoa conducts operations in 31 countries...

and Barclays Capital

Barclays Capital

Barclays Capital is a global British investment bank. It is the investment banking division of Barclays plc which has a balance sheet of over £1.2 trillion . Barclays Capital provides financing and risk management services to large companies, institutions and government clients. It is a primary...

joined as Participating Institutions in January, BlackRock

BlackRock

BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment management corporation and the world's largest asset manager. BlackRock is headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States and is the leading provider of investment, advisory, and risk management solutions...

and Occidental Petroleum Corporation joined ACP in the spring, and Accenture

Accenture

Accenture plc is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is the largest consulting firm in the world and is a Fortune Global 500 company. As of September 2011, the company had more than 236,000 employees across...

, American Airlines

American Airlines

American Airlines, Inc. is the world's fourth-largest airline in passenger miles transported and operating revenues. American Airlines is a subsidiary of the AMR Corporation and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas adjacent to its largest hub at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport...

, Boeing

Boeing

The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...

, General Mills

General Mills

General Mills, Inc. is an American Fortune 500 corporation, primarily concerned with food products, which is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. The company markets many well-known brands, such as Betty Crocker, Yoplait, Colombo, Totinos, Jeno's, Pillsbury, Green...

, Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....

, and UPS

UPS

- Science, technology and medicine :* Uninterruptible power supply* Ubiquitin proteasome system* Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy* Universal Polar Stereographic coordinate system* Ups * Medically "unexplained physical symptoms"...

joined in the fall of 2011.

Locations

ACP is a nationwide program with participation available throughout the country. Currently, participation is available in or near the following cities:

Atlanta

Boston

Boston

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Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

Dallas

Denver

Hartford

Houston

Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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Manhattan, KS

Minneapolis/St. Paul

New York City

New York City

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Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Raleigh

Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 403,892, over an area of , making Raleigh...

/Durham

Durham

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San Antonio/Austin

Austin

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas.Austin may also refer to:-In the United States:*Austin, Arkansas*Austin, Colorado*Austin, Chicago, Illinois*Austin, Indiana*Austin, Minnesota*Austin, Nevada*Austin, Oregon...

San Francisco Bay Area

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Washington, DC

E-Mentoring (Mentors and Protégés who do not live within 100 miles of the participating cities are encouraged to join the E-Mentoring program).

Participating Institutions

Accenture

Alcoa

American Airlines

Aon Corporation

AT&T

AT&T

Barclays Capital

BlackRock

Bloomberg L.P.

Boeing

Campbell Soup Company

Campbell Soup Company , also known as Campbell's, is an American producer of canned soups and related products. Campbell's products are sold in 120 countries around the world. It is headquartered in Camden, New Jersey...

Deloitte LLP

Energy Future Holdings Corporation

General Dynamics

General Dynamics

General Electric Company

General Mills

General Mills

Goldman Sachs

Harvard University

Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

The Home Depot, Inc.

IBM Corporation

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Kansas State University

Kansas State University, commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States...

Liberty Mutual Group

MacAndrews & Forbes

Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley

News Corporation

Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Omnicom Group

Omnicom Group

PepsiCo, Inc.

Siemens

Siemens

Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...

Travelers

The University of Texas System

UPS

UPS

URS Corporation

Verizon Communications Inc.

Leadership

Board of Directors

Sidney Goodfriend, Chairman & Founder

Daniel H. Bayly

Isobel Coleman

Isobel Coleman

Isobel Coleman is senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and director of CFR’s Civil Society, Markets and Democracy Initiative. She is also director of CFR's Women and Foreign Policy program...

Devon Cross

Amy O. Goodfriend

Robert J. Kueppers

Alain Lebec

Allan Luks

John Myers

Francis X. Taylor

Advisory Council

Diane Bodman

Richard Danzig

Richard Danzig

Richard Jeffrey Danzig is an American lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton...

, Advisor to President Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

Robert J. Dole, United States Senator

Christine A. Ferer

John Hamre

John Hamre

John J. Hamre is a specialist in international studies, a former Washington bureaucrat and the current president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a position he has held with that think tank since April 2000.-Education:Hamre is the son of Melvin Sanders and Ruth Lucile...

, President & CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Center for Strategic and International Studies

The Center for Strategic and International Studies is a bipartisan Washington, D.C., foreign policy think tank. The center was founded in 1962 by Admiral Arleigh Burke and Ambassador David Manker Abshire, originally as part of Georgetown University...

Karen Hughes

Karen Parfitt Hughes is the Global Vice Chair of Burson-Marsteller. She served as the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of State with the rank of ambassador. She resides in Austin, Texas.-Early life:Born in Paris, France, she is the daughter...

, Global Vice Chair of Burson-Marsteller

Burson-Marsteller

Burson-Marsteller is a global public relations and communications firm headquartered in the United States. Burson-Marsteller operates 67 wholly owned offices and 71 affiliate offices in 98 countries across six continents...

Jack H. Jacobs

Jack Howard Jacobs is a retired colonel in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during the Vietnam War. He currently serves as a military analyst for MSNBC and previously worked as an investment manager....

, Retired Colonel and Medal of Honor

Medal of Honor

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recipient

Vernon Jordan Jr.

Vernon Jordan Jr.

Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr. is a lawyer and business executive in the United States. He served as a close adviser to President Bill Clinton and has become known as an influential figure in American politics...

Jack Keane

John Keane is a retired four-star general and former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, and a defense analyst currently serving as Chairman of the Board for .-Biography:...

, retired four-star general and former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army

United States Army

The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

Mary Jo Myers

Richard B. Myers, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is by law the highest ranking military officer in the United States Armed Forces, and is the principal military adviser to the President of the United States, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council and the Secretary of Defense...

Lynne Pace

Peter Pace

Peter Pace

, 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Dennis Ross

Dennis B. Ross is an American diplomat and author. He has served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W...

, American diplomat

James A. Runde

James A. Runde

James A. Runde is a Wall Street investment banker specializing in strategic and financial advice. He is a Special Advisor and a former Vice-Chairman of Morgan Stanley. Throughout his career with the firm, he has worked on mergers, privatizations, and restructurings, with a focus on the...

, Special Advisor of Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley

Peter J. Schoomaker, 35th Army Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff of the United States Army

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Henry Hugh Shelton, Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

George P. Schultz, 60th United States Secretary of State

United States Secretary of State

The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence...

and 62nd United States Secretary of the Treasury

United States Secretary of the Treasury

The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also with some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal Government of the United...

Lawrence H. Summers, President Emeritus of Harvard University

Harvard University

Paul Wolfowitz

, 25th U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

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