FUTURE OF MANUFACTURING FUND

Five organizations were selected for their ongoing efforts to address critical gaps in the advanced manufacturing workforce and their innovative ideas for scaling these initiatives.

Year I Cohort:

• Advanced Manufacturing Industry Partnership (AMIP)’s Manufacturing Education Expansion Initiative: To facilitate earlier engagement of potential manufacturing workers in high schools, offer additional support for its Boot Camp participants and expand its existing model of career development into Clermont County.
• Cincinnati Youth Collaborative (CYC)’s Advanced Manufacturing Career Pathway Program: To expand and enhance the program through increases in enrollment, certified program graduates, and job placements.
• Great Oaks Career Campuses Adult Education’s Operation CNC and Advanced Manufacturing: To encourage enrollment by increasing public awareness of CNC and advanced manufacturing, including the available careers, the type of work, potential income and room for advancement.
• LEAD Training’s Manufacturing Workforce Initiative: To expand its Manufacturing Pathway Program to six schools in local communities, increasing enrollment and providing 1:1 career coaching for students interested in manufacturing. It will also engage students with STEM workshops and other programs that offer early exposure to manufacturing careers.
• Learning Grove’s NaviGo College and Career Prep for Manufacturing Careers: To replicate and scale NaviGo’s programming that supports Northern Kentucky’s most vulnerable youth by helping them build occupational identities. Students will now learn about career paths within the manufacturing sector.