The Cape & Islands Veterans Outreach Center welcomes Steve Carter as their new President of the Board of Directors.

Hyannis, MA — The Cape & Islands Veterans Outreach Center (CIVOC) and its Board of Directors officially welcome Steve Carter as their new President.

Steve Carter serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Cape and Islands Veterans Outreach Center (CIVOC), where he is committed to ensuring that every veteran on Cape Cod and the Islands has access to the services, support, and opportunities they have earned through their military service.

Steve is a senior business strategist and former Fortune 100 executive with more than four decades of leadership experience spanning the military, global corporations, private equity, consulting, and nonprofit organizations. He currently serves as a Senior Growth Advisor with Generational Growth Advisory Group, where he partners with business owners across North America to accelerate growth, improve profitability, strengthen leadership teams, and execute transformational strategic initiatives.

Throughout his corporate career, Steve held senior executive leadership positions with some of the nation’s most recognized organizations, including Wal-Mart, Reebok, Target, Honeywell International, Case New Holland, Pet Retail Brands, and Metropolitan Transportation Network. He has led enterprise-wide operational transformations in supply chain, manufacturing, transportation, logistics, and business strategy, producing hundreds of millions of dollars in operational savings while improving customer service and organizational performance.

Steve retired from the U.S. Army as a Colonel after 25 years of combined active duty and Army Reserve service in the Corps of Engineers. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and lettered on the Army Football Team. Steve served as a combat engineer officer with the 2nd Armored Division in Fort Hood, Texas, including as an Engineer Company Commander, deploying multiple times to Western Europe. He later served in the West Point Admissions Office as a Regional Commander, and as a staff officer at Headquarters, U.S. Transportation Command, supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. His military decorations include the Legion of Merit, multiple Meritorious Service Medals, Army Commendation Medals, and the Parachutist Badge.

Steve earned his Master of Business Administration from the Wharton Business School and his Master of Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He remains actively engaged in developing future military leaders as the Congressional District Coordinator for West Point Admissions for Massachusetts’ 9th Congressional District. His community leadership also includes service on the Board of Directors of the Morton Cure Paralysis Fund, former service on the Board of Directors of Feed My Starving Children, and volunteer leadership with numerous civic and faith-based organizations.

Outside of his professional and volunteer work, Steve enjoys golf, travel, fitness, serving his church, and spending time with family and friends. He and his wife, Amanda, live in Dennis, Massachusetts. They have two grown children: Samantha, living in Brooklyn, New York, and Drew, living in Boston, Massachusetts.

CIVOC is a tax-deductible, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. It was founded in 1983 by a group of Vietnam Veterans who did not find the services and programs they needed to transition back to their communities anywhere in our region successfully.  Ever since then, we have been an indispensable provider of veteran services across the region.  Building on the legacy that our founders established over 43 years ago, CIVOC is built on four interconnected pillars that address the most pressing challenges local veterans face: safe and stable housing, reliable access to nutritious food to combat food insecurity, dependable transportation so veterans can reach medical care and essential services, and comprehensive mental-health services and outreach that provide counseling, case management, and connection to community supports, all working together to ensure veterans and their families can live with dignity, stability, and hope.

Media Contact:

Jeffrey Begg, Director of Development – Cape & Islands Veterans Outreach Center

Phone: (508) 778-1590

Email: jbegg@capeveterans.com