DOGTAG BAKERY INC

Dog Tag Bakery exists to serve those who have served our nation as they transition into civilian careers. We empower veterans with service-connected disabilities, military spouses, and caregivers to rediscover purpose and build community through an innovative business and entrepreneurship fellowship program. Our five-month fellowship program seeks to bridge the gap often left for transitioning veterans by TAP and other transition programs and provide a transition program for often-overlooked military spouses and caregivers. Our comprehensive and multifaceted fellowship program enables DTI fellows to dip their toe back into education, gain first-hand experience in a living, breathing small business (Dog Tag Bakery), and explore a wide-variety of civilian career paths and acquire key soft skills through Learning Labs. Wellness is a cornerstone of our program - from mindfulness to journaling, nutrition to yoga, we believe that our holistic, wellness-oriented approach allows the service-disabled veterans, military spouses, and caregivers we serve to be mentally ready to absorb the lessons and resources our program provides and lay the groundwork for their successful transition into civilian life.

Dog Tag Bakery acts as an incubator for Dog Tag’s veteran education program, providing participants with the unique opportunity to apply classroom learnings about business in a real-life growing small business. Dog Tag provides experiential learning by facilitating a working rotation through the storefront and back-office non-profit positions. Fellows spend time with members from each of Dog Tag's different departments, enabling participants to gain first-hand experience in operations, staff management, product creation, customer service, finance, budgeting, business development, marketing, and more. Fellows graduate from our program with a clear sense of their future goals, and the tools and network they need to achieve them.