Career Pathways Training Grant

Workforce Development

The Teshinsky Family Foundation is committed to finding ways to help people develop skills for gainful employment, education opportunities, and through them, personal liberty.  TFF aims to challenge the established secondary education paradigm as the necessary model for employment, focusing on manufacturing, skilled trades, and increased connections between K-12 to postsecondary careers.

Career Pathways Training Grant

The Teshinsky Family Foundation is dedicated to helping people develop skills to enter sustainable careers, leading to successful lives and personal liberty. To do so, it is necessary to challenge the established secondary education paradigm, as increasing numbers of young people are looking for alternatives. The Career Pathways Training Grant aims to support direct service training programs for post-secondary career pathways that meet the following criteria.

Required Program Elements

• Direct Training aligned with career opportunities at no cost to participants.
• Employment Pipeline in high-wage, sustainable careers with growth potential.
• Support Services to overcome hurdles known to impede job applicants.

Career Training Areas

• Manufacturing
  • Including but not limited to CNC, CAD/CAM, composites, fabrication, mechatronics, robotics, and tooling
• Building Trades
  • Including but not limited to carpentry, masonry, electrical, plumbing, sheet metal, framing, hardscape, HVAC, and painting
• Welding
  • Including but not limited to Stick, Flux, MIG, TIG welding certification and job-ready skills and abilities
• Other Fields
  • Additional direct skills training programs in high demand industries leading to high wage careers may be considered

Funding

One-time grants between $25,000 and $100,000 will be awarded to registered 501(c)3 organizations to support training or equipment.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

• Only the following are eligible to apply for a Career Pathways Training Grant:
  • Organizations with tax-exempt status under section 501(c)3 of the IRS.
  • Programs operating in the continental United States.
  • Programs serving participants ages 18 and over.
  • Programs that do not limit participation to specific groups.
  • Programs that provide direct skills training to participants.
  • Programs that have engaged in training for at least one year with job placement data.

Ineligibility

• The following are not eligible to apply for a Career Pathways Training Grant:
  • Individuals.
  • Intermediary organizations and community college foundations.
  • Programs that do not provide on-site training or that contract with separate organizations to provide skills training.
  • Organizations that discriminate in any way.
  • Religious organizations, unless engaged in programs that are non-sectarian, benefit a broad base of the community and have a separate 501(c)(3) designation.
  • Political action committees, candidates, causes, and lobbying.
  • Labor, alumni, or fraternal groups.
  • Recreation, athletic or sports teams, programs, or leagues.
  • For-profit entities, including start-up small businesses.
  • Endowment funds.