Let’s Grow the Trades
With an estimated 10 million global manufacturing jobs currently unfilled, the trade skill gap is an urgent challenge. That’s why we’re committing $30 million in grant money over five years to nonprofits – helping fund important vocational skills training and reskilling programs in construction and manufacturing. Together we can close the trade skill gap and help grow the trades.
2023 Women in Construction Week
She Built This City Builds Pathways to Success
See how this Impact Challenge Grant Recipient is giving women the tools to succeed in the construction industry through their 8-week, pre-apprenticeship training program.
Learn MoreAnnouncing Our 2022 Makers Grant Recipients
For the second year of our Global Impact Challenge, we selected 91 out of an impressive field of 182 applicants to receive grant funding. Stay tuned to see the impact each will make in helping to skill and reskill over 200,000 makers throughout 2023.
Download PR Toolkit2022 Grant Winners
In our second year, the Global Impact Challenge awarded $3M in grants supporting 91 nonprofit organizations (62 cash grants and 29 tool donation grants), tracking to benefit 210,000 future tradespeople.
Making a Difference
Hope Renovations: 2021 Grant Recipient
The Trades Are in Demand
Right now, there is a high demand for skilled jobs and a shortage of skilled labor. To close this trade skill deficit, we need to better understand the barriers keeping people from the trades and the gap itself. Explore these links to learn more.
15M
New Jobs
85%
Young People
10M
Manufacturing Jobs
$65K
Average Pay
(1) SkillPointe, (2) The Makers Index, (3) World Economic Forum/Deloitte, (4) Generation T
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Grow the Trades Grant Opens September 15, 2023