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From Boomers to Gen Z: Skilled trades pathways open for Hope Renovations' largest ever graduating class
The graduates ranged in age from 20 to 67 and represent the nonprofit’s largest cohort yet amidst an urgent labor shortage.

Lowe’s Foundation awards $500,000 to Hiring Our Heroes to prepare military community for skilled trades careers
The partnership will come to life this fall through a Skilled Trades Academy outside Camp Lejeune and offer active duty service members, veterans and their spouses hands-on training for careers in…

Lowe’s Foundation Investment in Solving Skilled Trades Labor Shortage Grows to $43 Million
Third cohort of community and technical colleges grant recipients will launch and expand new training programs for thousands of aspiring tradespeople

Skilled Trades Training on the Move
Meeting Students Where They Are: The Secret to Removing Skilled Trades Barriers? Rolling Classrooms

Signed For Success
A New Wave of Students and Their Proud Parents Rewrite the Skilled Trades Narrative on SkillsUSA National Signing Day

Power Through Plumbing
Elizabeth Silva, a single mother from Denver, shares an empowering story from dead-end jobs to a plumbing apprenticeship through The Master's Apprentice, a Gable Grant recipient. Her journey…