Job insurance

There are plenty of charities that benefit disabled military veterans, but many of them do little more than stage elaborate welcome-home ceremonies.

Despite well-meaning efforts, more than 60% of disabled veterans are unemployed today. But a group of insurance industry executives and retired military officers in Fort Myers have an ambitious plan to make a dent in that sad statistic.

Gary Trippe and James Pender, who sold their insurance brokerage firm Oswald Trippe and Co. to regional banking powerhouse BB&T in 2009, are spearheading a nonprofit organization they formed called Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers.