​Advocate, When it comes to solving our workforce sustainability problems Ryunosoke Satoro had it right all the way back in 1824, individually we are just a drop but together we are the ocean. That is the basic premise of C3 and our collaboration between owner, GC, specialty, and design professionals. Collaboratively we make a bigger […]
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​Hello Friend, A few years back Diane Aguilar, Chuck Gremillion and I started working with Debra Haney, Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocesan Schools in Galveston-Houston. She had a great big dream to convert a currently closed elementary school into a career and technical high school that gave students the opportunity to pursue career readiness
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​Hello Friend, Something I have learned in my career is that there are certain times when it is critical to manage your assets and resources. One such time is when you are hiring new employees. You cannot impact your workforce more than during the period between a job offer and onboarding. Nothing else is more impactful! At
Hello Friend, It is such a pleasure to be part of this organization and I really look forward to our golf tournament each year as the main place I get to see many of you. So as you can imagine when we first open up our golf registration, I am watching closely to see who
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​Hello Friend, In 1948, James Johnson and his wife Bonnie sold the family farm in rural Alabama to make a better life for their four children. They moved the family north to Indianapolis and restarted building a life. James had a 3rd-grade education but was a hard worker and was good with his hands. Bonnie
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​Hello Friend, What is better than friends, golf, sunshine, and supporting C3? Not much that I can think of! We are back at it with our 12th Annual Golf Classic. Blackhorse will be hosting us again with a total of 72 available foursomes. We will shotgun start at noon on October 25th so make sure
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Hello Friend, So many things have happened in the last two weeks for Construction Career Collaborative (C3), that I just can’t wait to share it all with you. First, we held an incredibly successful #SHEbuildsHouston event. Thanks to our underwriters Turner Construction, TDI, and Satterfield & Pontikes. And a huge thank you to Action Gypsum
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​Hello Friend, It is March 2nd and we are feverishly preparing for the 2nd #SHEbuildsHouston event. We didn’t ever plan to host this event, it grew organically. We never planned to host the second one outside in order to combat a pandemic or during Women’s History Month. But we are. Great things just seem to
​Greetings! It’s January of 2022 already and while I had held on to hopes that COVID would be behind us and we could all return to travel, face-to-face meetings, and handshakes that isn’t where we are today. But truth be told, COVID really hasn’t slowed down the progress of Construction Career Collaborative (C3) in the
​Greetings! With the new year sitting right on the horizon, I’m certain many of us will begin to reflect on what we have accomplished in 2021 and what 2022 might hold for us both personally and professionally. December does this to me every year and 2021 has held some pretty great things for us at
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Construction Career Collaborative (C3) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, labor-neutral alliance of owners, contractors, and industry associations collaborating to establish a safe, skilled, and sustainable craft talent pipeline.