Twin City Veterans Bridge
From military service to community leadership in Winston-Salem.
A Winston-Salem where transitioning veterans are actively recruited to live, work, lead, and build. A community that competes for veteran talent and then invests in them as employees, founders, families, and neighbors.
Recruit transitioning military leaders into Winston-Salem and place them into careers worthy of their service and ventures worthy of their ambition, through two coequal tracks. The program serves any transitioning veteran who can anchor locally, with a primary focus on senior officers and senior NCOs. Because relocation is a family decision, we engage the spouse as a full participant, not an afterthought.
Placement Track
We recruit transitioning officers and senior NCOs into Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, vet for employer fit, make introductions to durable employer partners, and walk each veteran from final formation to first promotion.
Founders Track
We bring veteran entrepreneurs to Winston-Salem and support them through their first three years, with capital introductions, mentorship from established local founders, professional-services navigation, and community integration.
A benefit across both tracks. TCVB funds participating veterans' tuition for applied AI courses at a local academic institution. Not a degree or a certification, but the practical fluency that will distinguish veteran leaders and founders in the next decade of the economy.
Veteran-owned businesses anchor American communities, generating $1.3 trillion in receipts and employing 4.4 million Americans. Yet entrepreneurship among post-9/11 veterans has declined sharply, driven by lost local networks, distance from mentorship, and weaker access to capital in the years right after service. Those are precisely the gaps a city-based program can close.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau Annual Business Survey; Syracuse University D'Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families; SBA Office of Advocacy.
Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, home to roughly 22,000 veterans, a top-25 business school, and a corporate community ready to invest in leadership talent. Every graduate serves alongside Veterans Helping Veterans Heal, the local transitional housing program for veterans rebuilding from homelessness.
Coffee and ice cream on the road in Winston-Salem, with proceeds supporting the mission.
A first pour and a first scoop, before the Airstream rolls.
