Build Your Workforce
SKILLED Nation helps forward-thinking companies solve pressing business challenges and create meaningful impact.
Our scholarship partnerships help bridge the skills gap, the pervasive inefficiency that leaves companies without enough skilled workers to realize their potential – and leaves individual Americans without the skills needed to realize their potential either. America has a workforce gap that is costing businesses time, money, and competitive ground. Millions of skilled positions go unfilled every year because the pipeline of trained workers simply cannot keep up with demand. That is the business case for partnering with SKILLED Nation.
But there is more to it than that.
When you fund a SKILLED Nation scholarship program, you are not just building a talent pipeline. You are investing in the communities where your employees live and work. You are creating opportunities for people who are ready to contribute but lack the financial access to get trained. You are putting your company's values into action in a way that is visible, measurable, and meaningful.
This is where business strategy and philanthropy meet.
What a Corporate Partnership Looks Like
We build each scholarship program to meet our partner’s specific goals. Partners choose the industry, geography, and types of training to support. SKILLED Nation handles everything else, from application processing and scholar selection to fund disbursement and impact reporting. Your brand is front and center on every scholarship we award through your program.
Our corporate partners include 3M, Ball Corp., Ford Philanthropy, GE Vernova Foundation, The Home Depot Foundation, Norfolk Southern, PulteGroup, Schneider Electric, Southwire, Stanley Black & Decker, Truist, and others.
The Results
More than 90% of SKILLED Scholars complete their training and 90%+ also find employment withing a year. The median income increase within two years of training is more than $40,000/year. These are not just feel-good numbers. They are proof that the model works.