Let’s Grow the Trades
With an estimated 10 million global manufacturing jobs currently unfilled, the trade skills 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. Together we can close the trade skills gap and help grow the trades.
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.
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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Constructing Careers… And Changing Lives
For more than fifty years, HBI has educated, inspired and prepared individuals for rewarding careers in the building industry.
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Empowering Women to Thrive in the Trades
Supporting tradeswomen isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s critical for the future of the industry.
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Workshops for Warriors is Rebuilding the Workforce
For Workshops for Warriors, the DEWALT® Grow the Trades Grant helps their efforts to provide training and credentialing for veterans and transitioning service members as they reenter civilian life.
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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 More2022 Grant Recipients
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.
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Helmets to Hardhats
Trade Skills Education
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She Built This City
Pre-Apprenticeship Training
This organization prepares women with a North Carolina state certified 8-week pre-apprenticeship training in skills and experience necessary to build successful, long-term careers in the construction industry. Participants learn construction math and tool handling, receive their OSHA 10 certification, and much more. Graduates connect with committed employer partners to obtain entry-level employment within the construction industry or move on to receive additional training through apprenticeships.
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Girls Garage
Construction Education
Offering high-caliber, no-cost design and construction education for teen girls and gender expansive youth, Girls Garage serves students who lack access to trade skill instruction due to financial, geographical, or personal barriers. After school and during the summer, girls learn architectural drafting, carpentry, welding, graphic design, and engineering through designing, prototyping, and construction skilling.
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Project ReBuild
Pre-Apprenticeship Training
Using Home Builders Institute Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Training curriculum as a guide, members learn how to identify tools and material, how to operate tools safely and practice what they’ve learned making picnic tables, sheds, birdhouses and benches.
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Plumbers & Pipefitter RS 142 Joint Apprentice
Apprenticeship Training
The program trains apprentices in HVAC, Plumbing, Welding, and Pipefitting to build, repair, and maintain our hospitals, schools, high rise buildings, and many more structures. The apprentices often start their own companies and hire new employees to keep our economy strong. The program also has a continuing education to earn an Associates or Bachelor’s degree.
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The Centre for Women
Pre-Apprenticeship Training
The Centre for Women have offered the Women Building Futures Pre-Apprenticeship Program. A 16-week basic residential construction trades course, women learn more about available jobs and their projected path for advancement in focuses like carpentry, masonry, construction drawings and tools. Graduates of the program are prepared to enter a registered apprenticeship program or start working immediately.
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The Crucible
Fabrication Training
Open For Business is a comprehensive program that provides entrepreneurial and fabrication training in welding, woodworking, foundry, basic machining, and OSHA 10 certification to low-income adults in the San Francisco Bay Area. Participants become qualified for entry- to mid-skill-level jobs in the skilled trades to earn a living wage. Simultaneously, participants gain entrepreneurial skills necessary to launch their own creative businesses, receiving their own set of personal protective equipment (PPE), materials, and a stipend to develop their products or as seed capital.
Trade-Focused Nonprofits - Register and Setup EFT With Benevity!
DEWALT Grow the Trades Grant Closes June 30, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. ET
Stay tuned for further updates.
Grant Resources
Working Together
Looking for other ways to support the trades or build your skills? Explore these organizations that are partnering with Stanley Black & Decker. Together, we’re working to connect more people to training, support and opportunities that will lead to successful careers in the trades.
![HBI logo](/sites/default/files/styles/detail_card_image/public/2024-04/card_slider_hbi.jpg?h=c91f5bad&itok=DBuDq0w9)
Home Builders Institute (HBI)
Trade Skills Education
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Dewalt Trades Scholarship
40 Scholarships
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Manufacturing Institute
Explore the Trades
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Junior Achievement of Central Maryland
Trade Skills Education
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Habitat for Humanity International
Community Engagement
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Stanley Black & Decker / Vocational Leadership Program
Future Manufacturing Leaders
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The Henry Ford
Innovation Convention U.S. Nationals Industry Award for Manufacturing and Tools Sponsor