WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Enriching communities one career at a time.
Our Foundation’s history is rooted in the trades, a vital piece of every community’s fabric. We support programs that provide specialized training and skills geared toward veterans, youth, nurses, and tradespeople to bolster the careers and ultimately the lives of these invaluable members of the workforce.
Recent grants include efforts to SUPPORT
Post-traumatic support programs for combat veterans
Entrepreneurial scholarships
New staff positions dedicated to creating training programs
State-of-the-art nursing simulation equipment
Testing and training device packages for technicians
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
-HENRY FORD
SAMPLE projects INCLUDE
Boulder Crest Retreat for Veteran and Military Wellness
Helping combat veterans transition to civilian life and quality jobs
LOCATION: Bluemont, Virginia
GRANT PURPOSE: To fund Warrior PATHH (Progressive and Alternative Training for Healing Heroes) for combat veterans to help them transition to civilian life and make peace with their pasts. This program provides four key activities to help veterans reduce stress, improve quality of life, and facilitate posttraumatic growth:
Educating warriors about what is taking place in their minds, hearts, and bodies
Engaging in group training activities to process trauma
Teaching a range of positive, evidence-based coping mechanisms to provide a sense of clarity, calm, and focus
Creating a strategy to leverage the program’s teachings at home to sustain lifelong benefits
The NEO Fund
Imparting business skills to indigent micro-loan borrowers
LOCATION: Nicaragua and Guatemala
GRANT PURPOSE: To teach basic business skills to impoverished Nicaraguan and Guatemalan micro-loan clients.
OUR SUPPORT FACILITATED:
Creation of a curriculum to teach skills such as planning and budgeting, bookkeeping, inventory management, how to work with a bank, and how to manage credit
Training of field staff and credit officers on this curriculum
Hiring of additional credit officers to deepen existing and foster new client relationships
Sandhills Community College
Workforce skills training, assessment, and classes
LOCATION: Hoke and Moore Counties, North Carolina
GRANT PURPOSE: To build an advanced manufacturing facility enabling the addition of higher level training equipment.
OUR SUPPORT FACILITATED:
*3D design courses
CNC machines- computer numeric control skills training
AI machines- artificial intelligence skills training
Students having finished an AA degree have a 40% increase in wages over High School graduates
Check out our Annual Report for a full list of grants.
*The Palmer Foundation does not accept unsolicited grant applications.