EBV – Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans – was started in 2007 by Mike Haynie, a former Air Force officer and currently a professor of entrepreneurship at Syracuse University. Since 2008 greater than 400 professionals have actually finished the program and 70% have actually started their own business. Anthony Bravo Esparza, also known as "Dreamer", is a 67-year-old, Army professional who has a barbershop/trailer on the VA parking lot in West Los Angeles. He provides veterans a hairstyle and a safe and pleasant place to hang out to help them reduce back into civilian life. Dreamer reduces hair for 200 veterans a month at little or no charge – "whatever you obtained, we'll make a deal". Since Dreamer's objective is to assist professionals move on, he explains "That's why we come our hair backwards". Reverend Patricia Anderson Cook of Mt. The Reverend's goal was to give the solution to active individuals, along with individuals who might be frightened to walk into a church. Corey Brooks, a Chicago pastor, encamped on an abandoned motel roofing system for 94 days to bring attention to its being "a magnet for drugs, criminal activity and violence". He came down only to talk at funerals for young men killed by violence in his area. The priest's objective was to increase $450,000 to purchase and take apart the motel. Although the priest is back on the ground, people won't stop "admiring him".
