Weiler Partners with Workshops for Warriors
They donated $25,000 to kick off a year-long campaign that will support machining and welding training programs at the nonprofit trade school.
Posted: June 20, 2018
Weiler Abrasives Group (Cresco, PA), a leading provider of abrasives, power brushes and maintenance products for surface conditioning, has announced the launch of a national fundraising campaign “Leading a Warriors’ Charge” in partnership with Workshops for Warriors® (WFW; San Diego, CA), a nonprofit school that trains, certifies and helps place veterans, wounded warriors and transitioning service members into advanced manufacturing careers. WFW, solves two systemic issues: rebuilding America’s advanced manufacturing talent workforce and ensuring transitioning service members and veterans successfully transition into viable, upwardly mobile civilian careers.
Weiler donated $25,000 to kick off the year-long campaign that will support machining and welding training programs at the nonprofit trade school, as well as contribute to long-term growth of the organization. “Our company believes in the value of the WFW cause and is pleased to support it,” stated Nate Schmid, the director of marketing — Americas, Weiler Abrasives Group. “Bringing veterans back into the workforce after they have served and training them with skills to have careers in welding and CNC machining is so important, both for their livelihoods and for our industry, as we face a major gap in the technical trades across the U.S.”
Providing WFW with in-kind support since 2014, supplying abrasive products and safety products to meet the needs of every incoming class each semester, the company plans to continue offering this support. Through the fundraising, Weiler will garner support to enable WFW to train four times as many students — and help the organization achieve its goal of “Rebuilding American Manufacturing One Veteran at a Time™“.
“They have been a great supporter of ours since the outset,” said Lyle Palm, the dean of welding at WFW. “They’ve gone the extra mile with this campaign. It’s an honor to partner with a company that genuinely believes in what we’re doing.” Since its inception in 2008, WFW has trained and certified 496 veterans, wounded warriors and transitioning service members, awarding more than 3,000 nationally recognized third-party credentials. In 2017, 94 percent of the school’s graduates obtained jobs in advanced manufacturing after completing the program. To learn more about the national fundraising campaign, please click here, or to make a donation to WFW, please click here.
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