(Supporting Our Schools)

Our Mission

“Exposing and Educating

tomorrow’s manufacturing workforce”

(Giving Technical, Financial, and Political Support with Accountability)

SUMMARY

Manufacturing SOS Alliance will create awareness as to the need, for machinists and other metal manufacturing professionals by industry.  A “partnership” between industry and Manufacturing SOS Alliance will create a budget allowing Manufacturing SOS to market the manufacturing trades and invest in local school districts to improve their technical education programs.  The success of this partnership will breathe life into an otherwise stagnant or non-existing high school technical education system and reestablish these programs as the primary exposure and marketing outlets for manufacturing occupations.  The result will be increased interest/enrollments in the high school programs thus creating increased interest/enrollments in the technical college programs and apprenticeships.  This process must be initiated at the high school level, by the high school teacher, as this is the only time such a captive audience can be accessed.  This unprecedented exposure process has the potential to change years of a lack of exposure for manufacturing as a lifelong career.

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We have all heard the saying:

“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.”

Our Philosophy:

“If you teach a man a skill, you get a worker. If you teach a trainer, you get a workforce!”

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Manufacturing SOS will work with manufactures by accepting their initial donations and “growing” them by:

• Soliciting governmental matching funds
• Applying for grants
• Soliciting organizational foundations

To be able to Market manufacturing careers to the public by:

• Investing directly in local high school tech ed programs by:
  • Paying for Tech Ed teacher skill enhancement.
    •  Initial training
    • Ongoing “Educational Dividends”
  • Evaluating high school shop facilities and purchasing equipment to “rebuild” their dilapidated programs.
• Facilitating additional industry to education partnerships such as:
  • Material donations
  • Shop supplies donations
  • Equipment donations
  • Process expertise
  • Etc.

Resulting in:

• A rejuvenated interest is high school Tech Ed by high school students.
• Expanded enrollments in the technical college programs and apprenticeships thus creating an expanded pool of trained employees for hire.
• An opportunity for true grassroots economic development.