• Mentor: Share your trade knowledge directly with students during hands-on training.

• Host a visit: Talk with a cohort about your business, the jobs you're hiring for, and what you look for in an employee.

• Sponsor: Support the program financially at a level that fits you.

• Donate: Tools, equipment, and supplies go directly toward hands-on training.

Keeping Students Safe

Because we work directly with youth, every volunteer with recurring student contact completes a criminal background check before starting, renewed at least every two years. We also follow a two-adult rule: whenever possible, no volunteer is alone with a single student outside the presence of another screened adult. This isn't paperwork for its own sake, it's how we earn the trust of every family who sends us a student.

Sponsorship Levels

• Protégé — up to $500

• Journeyman — $1,000

• Master — $5,000, includes a discount coupon for renovation work

The Wishing Well Fund

Each training cohort works on an active job site contracted through Rock-n-Roll Construction. 25% of every project goes into the Wishing Well Fund, which pays student stipends of $15/hour. Your sponsorship keeps that fund, and those stipends, going.

What You Get in Return

A pipeline of local, trained talent who already know your industry, plus a direct hand in shaping the workforce you'll be hiring from for years to come. Annual sponsors receive a brief each year showing how their contribution changed lives.

Getting Started

Fill out the form below to tell us how you'd like to be involved, whether that's mentoring, volunteering, sponsoring, or partnering as a business.