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3 lip 2014 · Peck is now the CEO of U.S. Vets, a nonprofit organization serving over 3,000 homeless and at-risk veterans. When U.S. Vets started in 1993, there were about 250,000 homeless veterans in America, according to the Interagency Council on the Homeless. That number today is around 60,000.
18 sty 2018 · President and CEO. Stephen J. Peck, who served as a Marine officer in Vietnam, heads the nation's largest nonprofit devoted to providing housing and other essential services to at-risk veterans.
27 cze 2023 · Vietnam veteran Stephen Peck (C68) abandoned his film career to advocate for his homeless comrades. When documentary filmmaker Stephen Peck (C68) wrote and directed a film about homeless Vietnam War veterans living in Venice Beach, Calif., it changed his life.
Stephen Joseph Peck, American documentary film director, writer. Founder Far From Home Foundation, 1991. 1st lieutenant United States Marine Corps, 1968-1971, Vietnam.
5 wrz 2024 · U.S.VETS Chief Executive Officer and Marine veteran Stephen Peck will retire at the end of 2024 after more than 28 years at U.S.VETS—14 of them at the helm of the largest nonprofit service provider dedicated to preventing and ending veteran homelessness.
Stephen J. Peck, who served as a Marine officer in Vietnam, leads U.S.VETS, the nation’s largest nonprofit provider of housing and other essential services for at-risk and homeless veterans and their families.
Peck served with the Marines in Vietnam after graduating from Northwestern University, where he studied film, influenced by his father, actor Gregory Peck. His life was forever shaped by his service as first lieutenant in the 1st Marine Division as a forward observer outside Danang, Vietnam.
