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Next time you invest in your weekly coffee supply, maybe consider buying it through a company that offers homeless and at-risk veterans an employment lifeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the goal of Veteran Roasters<\/a>, whose core mission is to hire and train veterans for jobs in the coffee industry, through the proceeds it earns selling America\u2019s favorite caffeinated beverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur focus is to provide opportunities to those whose transition back after their service didn\u2019t go as they hoped or planned,\u201d said Veteran Roasters founder Branden Marty, a Navy vet. \u201cIt\u2019s a neat environment because everyone has a similar experience, so you can easily connect with people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Marty put it, Veterans Roasters isn\u2019t giving veterans “a hand out, we\u2019re giving them a hand up.\u201d The money they earn through coffee sales goes directly back into their charitable arm, Rags of Honor 1, which funds their ability to hire veterans and help pay for their life needs like housing and child care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coffee isn\u2019t the only beverage Marty is trying to parlay into a successful small business. Veteran Roasters recently partnered with Chicago Cubs Manager Joe Maddon to help create a new beer that they dubbed \u201cJoe Maddon\u2019s Try Not To Suck<\/a>\u201d German Lager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of the proceeds from beer sales will go toward ending veteran homelessness and joblessness via Rags of Honor 1 and Maddon\u2019s Respect 90<\/a> foundation, which has multiple programs designed to aid and shine a spotlight on the overall homelessness problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re developing almost a family of brands around this whole mission and providing even more opportunities,\u201d Marty said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veteran Roasters is a wholesale company that mostly sells its coffee to restaurants, hotels and those throwing corporate events \u2014 and individuals can also buy the coffee directly from the company\u2019s website. Marty said that so far the company has been able to hire five veterans since its inception in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also has a direct partnership with the Chicago-based Passion House Coffee Roasters<\/a>, which has been supporting Veteran Roasters\u2019 efforts to teach down-on-their-luck veterans about the world of coffee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBranden does a great job running the company,\u201d said Passion House owner Joshua Millman. \u201cHe is very passionate and he\u2019s a go-getter. Branden loves so much that he\u2019s able to give at-risk or homeless veterans this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Branden Marty (L), founder of Veteran Roasters, and Joshua Millman (R), owner of Passion House Coffee Roasters, are both working toward the eventual goal of ending veteran homelessness and unemployment. (Photo provided by Branden Marty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Marty was never planning on starting a coffee company. He grew up listening to his grandfather\u2019s stories about his time as a WWII pilot and decided that he wanted to join the military so he could also travel the world and serve his country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He enlisted in the Navy in 2002 as a helicopter pilot and deployed multiple times to places like the Middle East and western Pacific. After separating in 2013 as a lieutenant commander, Marty began his post-military career as an aide to a few decorated generals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI got to see the world many times over,\u201d he said. “I got to be in the room with three and four-star [generals] who were dealing with big national-security issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, Marty landed a job at Naval Station Great Lakes as the wounded warrior program coordinator for the Midwest region. He was eventually approached to help coordinate the Warrior Games<\/a> in Chicago, which is where he met fellow veteran and small-business owner Mark Doyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doyle was an ex-contractor who had worked in Afghanistan and recently launched Rags of Honor<\/a>, a military-style apparel company separate from Veteran Roasters\u2019 similarly named charitable arm. He gave Marty the idea to start his own coffee business with the goal of reducing veteran homelessness and unemployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo many veterans deal with re-integration anxiety because no one really understands them,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve created a community where all these people can come for anything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millman was happy to partner with a company as singularly driven as Veteran Roasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really important that when people are giving their lives and committing their livelihood to allow us to live the lives that we are, that should never be unrewarded,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is a huge, huge mission that each of these people are dedicating their lives to. And the fact they come back and aren\u2019t taken care of \u2026 we just need to be more helpful and mindful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Millman, coffee is more than just a way to stay awake during a long work day. It\u2019s a way to bring people \u2014particularly veterans \u2014 together in a public space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a conduit to start conversations, to give people a spot where they can talk to each other,\u201d Millman said. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s about dreaming together about potential businesses to start or even debating. All of that happens over a cup of coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marty recalled the \u201creally bad-quality coffee\u201d he was subjected to during his time in the Navy. He believes his coffee is both much better and worthy of the cause for which it is being sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe think we have pretty good coffee,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to have good coffee to keep customers. They\u2019ll buy the initial bag for the charity, but we hope they stay for the quality of the coffee. If you\u2019re buying it anyway, why not support an organization that\u2019s giving back?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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