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Lowe’s Continues Scholarship Fund for Sixth Year
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D’Aulo Broggin tramsition assistance from the HBI/Lowe’s scholarship fund when he began work at Retrotech Sytems as a lighting technician. |
Lowe’s Home Improvement will be making its sixth annual $50,000 contribution to the Home Builders Institute (HBI)/Lowe’s Building Careers Scholarship Fund to help Job Corps graduates defray the cost of making their successful transitions into jobs in the home building industry.
Lowe’s established the scholarship in April 2004 and, with the most recent donation, has contributed $300,000 to the fund. To date, more than 200 Job Corps graduates have received transition assistance through the scholarship program.
Lowe’s will present the contribution at the 2009 International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas.
Eligible HBI Job Corps students can receive up to $1,000 in scholarship money to aid with their expenses after graduating from a Job Corps center and setting out on their own.
D’Aulo Broggin, a graduate from HBI’s electrical wiring program at the Flatwoods Job Corps Center in Coeburn, Va., received Lowe’s scholarship funds when he began work at his new job at Retrotech Systems in nearby Alexandria.
While at Flatwoods, Broggin completed his work-based learning requirements at Retrotech. The company was so impressed with Broggin that it hired him to work full time after graduation where he is earning $18 an hour as a lighting technician.
Lowe’s is also helping Job Corps graduates get started by supporting several other HBI programs. Earlier this year, the company hosted the presentation of the industry’s most prestigious Job Corps awards, the NAHB President’s Award and the Shirley McVay Wiseman Award for Exceptional Promise. At the awards ceremony, Lowe’s surprised each award recipient, Eric Marion and Ebony Shaw, with a $500 gift card and more than $3,000 worth of tools.
HBI, the workforce development arm of NAHB, is the largest national training contractor in Job Corps, placing more than 2,000 young people annually in jobs in residential construction. NAHB members work through their local home builders associations to help develop the curriculum, mentor students and provide internships or work-based learning opportunities.
For more information on the HBI/Lowe’s Building Careers Scholarship or to hire an HBI Job Corps graduate, e-mail Keith Albright or Maria McIntyre at HBI, or call them at 800-795-7955 x8911 and x8912, respectively.
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