The Global Impact Challenge will reskill more than 200,000 makers and trade professionals in 2023.

Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) announced the recipients of its second Global Impact Challenge. CLC, Inc. is honored to have been named as a Makers Grant Recipient for our efforts to provide sustainable career training and employment opportunities to people in DFW!

Initiated in 2021, the Global Impact Challenge grant program will award up to $25 million in grant funding over five years to nonprofits that are supporting trade workforce development initiatives in the construction and manufacturing sectors. With the first applications submitted in 2022, 182 entrants were evaluated based on number of people served, outcomes projected, sustainable impact, depth of programs, and diversity, among many other considerations. CLC, Inc. was selected as one of 91 organizations that will help skill and reskill roughly 210,448 makers throughout 2023.

“We are all thrilled and grateful for the chance to provide life-changing career opportunities to more clients!” said Cory Lane, Career School Director, CLC, Inc.The Low-Income Families Employment Initiative (LIFEI) is a Job Skills Training and employment Initiative that will address the mutual interests of (1) employers to meet the growing need for high technology skills within the advanced manufacturing industry; and (2) low-income or unemployed individuals, that otherwise not qualify for financial assistance and would have to pay (out-of-pocket) for skills training to provide financial security for themselves and their families.

The LIFEI project will provide up to 50% of the costs of a CLC, Inc. job skills training program for unemployed and under-employed participants that do not qualify for other public or private funding to pay for their job skills training. The participant would be responsible for up to 50% of the cost, depending on the individual's specific situation and financial need.

“Stanley Black & Decker is immensely proud to support CLC, Inc. as they work to skill and reskill the next generation of trade professionals,” said Stanley Black & Decker Corporate Responsibility Officer, Deb Geyer. “Currently in the U.S., there are an estimated 650,000 open construction jobs and 10 million unfilled manufacturing jobs globally. Our purpose is to support ‘Those Who Make the World,’ and being able to fund educational programs and non-profits that are revitalizing trade careers directly connects to our core mission. Thanks to this year’s Makers Grant Recipients, together we will be one step closer to closing the trade skills gap.”

We are all thrilled and grateful for the chance to provide life-changing career opportunities to more clients!

-Cory Lane

To learn more about Stanley Black & Decker’s Global Impact Challenge, the 2022 recipients and how non-profits may submit for the upcoming application period, please visit Empower Makers.