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 […]
Greetings! Can you believe it has only been a four short years that I have worked with C3 on the mission of strengthening the safe, skilled, and sustainable craft workforce in Houston? And yet we have grown exponentially through that four years, adding experts to our consulting staff and taking on new and exciting adventures
Greetings! In case you missed our social media posts, I had the privilege of being hosted by NCCER last week. I met with Vice President of Innovation, Jennifer Wilkerson. If you are not familiar with NCCER (National Center for Construction Education Research), they are a leading provider of construction craft training materials. They have built
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Greetings! What a beautiful October we had. I hope you were able to enjoy some time outside in the beautiful weather it offered. We had such a wonderful time with the 70 teams that showed up at Blackhorse Golf Course for the 11th Annual C3 Golf Classic. We look forward to this day each year
Greetings! It was almost two years ago today that we first hosted the #SHEbuildsHouston event at M.O. Campbell Event Center. The event allowed over 1000 young women to touch the tools and technology of construction as well as hear the powerful stories of women from the field to the C-suite. The women who volunteered and
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Greetings! Can you believe it has only been a four short years that I have worked with C3 on the mission of strengthening the safe, skilled, and sustainable craft workforce in Houston? And yet we have grown exponentially through that four years, adding experts to our consulting staff and taking on new and exciting adventures
What is a Pre-Apprenticeship Program? Pre-Apprenticeship is a program or set of strategies that are designed to prepare individuals to enter and succeed in a Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP). Pre-apprenticeship can be integrated into high school career and technical programs with the help of a contractor who is sponsoring the students. Consider the Benefits of
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A good friend once told me, in a moment of stubbornness, “You don’t get to ‘not’ right now.” As much as I did not enjoy hearing it, he was right! And as I reflect, I am glad that I heard him and chose to act instead of remaining comfortable in that moment. When it comes
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Breaking news for C3 comes in the form of a grant from the Houston-Galveston Area Board (H-GAC). The H-GAC focuses on assisting companies in attracting, training, and retaining workers. They felt that the C3 mission of strengthening a safe, skilled, and sustainable workforce was something their grant money could truly help push forward. The grant,
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Our city’s craft professionals have built Houston – a global city and a city of opportunity. Through C3’s innovative work, the industry continues to create a more sustainable and skilled craft workforce that is essential for the industry and our city. After disasters, the region’s construction industry steps up, leads, and rebuilds the city –
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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.
