V2S acts as an open door for veterans, helping them jumpstart a career in commercial and entertainment media. Co-founded by David Cohen, Peter Friedman and Brig Gen (PA) Maureen Weigl, V2S is a not-for-profit organization that provides U.S. military veterans:
- Introduction
- Apprenticeship
- Training
- Meaningful employment in media production
Vets2Set® will maintain a proprietary database of veterans’ personal and professional information that a production company needs when staffing a production. Production companies will reach out directly to veterans when a production is starting and will then enlist two veterans for a job.
Payment to each veteran is made directly by the production company. Each veteran will fill out a W9 tax form at the start of employment. Each day a time card is filled out and tracked by the production company, same as for all their employees. At the conclusion of the job all appropriate taxes will be deducted, as designated by the veteran, and a check will be sent from the production company directly to the veteran. At no time does any payment come to V2S.
A simple completion report is required to be filled out by the veteran at the conclusion of each job and logged into our proprietary database. This helps V2S track the success of the program.