Google’s ongoing commitment to the veteran community

Google invests in career pathways and grassroots support to help veterans and military spouses successfully transition and thrive at every stage of their civilian lives.

As co-leads of the Google Veterans Network (VetNet) Employee Resource Group, we see daily how veterans’ skills translate into high-impact workforce leadership. Through deep collaborations with global non-profits, industry partners, and our own product teams, Google is continuing to invest in career pathways and grassroots support to help veterans and military spouses successfully transition and thrive at every stage of their civilian lives.

Expanding skills and career pathways

A central part of our efforts is providing veterans with career resources and trainings in the latest tech skills. Here’s what we’re doing:

• Google Launchpad for Veterans: Now in its third year, this program helps active-duty personnel, transitioning service members, and veterans build practical cloud and generative AI skills, preparing them for credentials like the Generative AI Leader certification. Certifications — available at no cost through this program — are known to help open up career opportunities. In fact, 92% of Google Skills learners say Google Cloud credentials (certifications, skill badges) help them get in-demand jobs faster. ¹
• Veterans Career Week: Hosted alongside Grow with Google, our flagship initiative expanded internationally this year programming across the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific, reaching over 6,000 participants. At our hands-on Grow with Google workshops, veterans and military families used tools like Career Dreamer, which translates their military experience into civilian resumes. They also received no-cost scholarships for digital and AI training, including the Google AI Professional Certificate. Today, one in ten Google Career Certificate graduates comes from the military community.
• National Veterans Small Business Week: Grow with Google teamed up with American Corporate Partners (ACP) and Blue Star Families to deliver hands-on AI training during our third annual National Veterans Small Business Week livestream. Attendees learned practical AI skills and gained insights from a veteran-owned small business.
• Skilled Trades Initiative: Google.org is supporting Hiring Our Heroes, Home Builders Institute, and Student Veterans of America to help 25,000 veterans and military family members build long-term careers in skilled trades. This builds upon prior funding to support student veterans nationwide with broad career readiness programming, including access to Google Career Certificates and Google AI Professional Certificate.
• Public Sector Enablement: Working alongside partners like Carahsoft, Google Cloud has trained more than 40,000 public sector personnel, including active duty service members and reservists, equipping our military with the hands-on expertise to safely architect what’s next.

Investing in community organizations

This year’s Google Veteran Impact Awards delivered $500,000 in new funding across four high-impact organizations. Nominated by VetNet Googlers with deep personal ties to their work, these nonprofits represent the groups our veteran community trusts, champions, and volunteers for:

FourBlock: Leads employer-hosted transition programs, taught directly by corporate leaders at active workplaces, for veterans to build direct networks and translate their military experience using an AI-enabled platform.

Blue Star Families: Serves as the nation’s largest military and veteran family support organization, strengthening families through trusted resources, community partnerships, and scam-prevention education.

The Von Terra Project: Empowers veterans transitioning to advanced technical careers through offerings like its comprehensive cybersecurity certification program, which features learning resources, fully funded exam vouchers, and one-on-one industry mentorship.

The Job Forum: Facilitates volunteer-led advising where experienced executives and hiring professionals help veterans and spouses translate skills and prepare for interviews.

Spotlighting veterans through our products

Across Google's products and platforms, we are celebrating and connecting the military community:

• Google Beam and USO: In partnership with the USO, we’re expanding HP Dimension with Google Beam to 20 locations globally. Powered by AI and 3D technology, Beam provides true-to-life video communication that lets deployed service members and their families feel like they are stepping into the same space. Watch our docuseries connecting four soldiers in Poland with their families in Texas; goo.gle/uso-beam
• Google Doodle: Our annual Veterans Day Doodle recognizes service, dedication, and courage with the achievement medals representing the six branches of service. These merit-based awards, which honor exceptional teamwork or technical achievements, often represent a junior officer’s, warrant officer’s, or enlisted service member's first individual award for superior performance of their duties and are an important point of pride in veteran life.

Camaraderie and purpose don’t end when service members hang up their uniforms. For the thousands of military families transitioning to civilian life each year, that shared sense of mission endures — and at Google, we recognize that the resilience, adaptability, and teamwork forged in service are invaluable assets to our teams.

To our veterans, service members, and military families: thank you for your service and leadership.