by Jeremy Cage
PepsiCo’s Jeremy Cage attends the New York Stock Exchange Closing Bell Ceremony with members of the EBV. Source: NYSE Euronext / Alyssa Ringler
On Monday, on behalf of the PepsiCo Dream Machine recycling initiative, I had the opportunity to join members from the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) for the New York Stock Exchange closing bell ceremony. At 4 p.m. sharp, EBV graduate Elizabeth Perez-Halperin, president and founder of GC Green, a post-9/11 service-disabled veteran-owned green build general contracting and consulting firm, rang The Closing BellSM and banged the gavel to officially close trading for the day.
The EBV provides free education and entrepreneurship training to post-9/11 U.S. veterans with disabilities. Since 2010 (the launch year for the Dream Machine program), the EBV has increased its capacity by 50 percent and added three new universities to its consortium. Currently, there are nearly 4,000 Dream Machine kiosks and bins in 37 states across the U.S., and the more plastic bottles and aluminum cans that people recycle in Dream Machines, the more PepsiCo will be able to contribute to the EBV.
As we begin 2012, we have some very exciting opportunities ahead for the Dream Machine program, and we are proud to continue to support such an important cause through this initiative.
To view the NYSE closing bell ceremony, click here: https://exchanges.nyx.com/en/new-york-stock-exchange/entrepreneurship-bootcamp-veterans-disabilities
