Mentors Teaching Their Trade - Trade Mentors, Inc

How Can a Tradesman Give Back?

Trade Mentors, Inc

When you learn, you receive, and we all know that it is better to give than to receive. At Trade Mentors you have the opportunity to give. What do you give? What you have received. You received an education. You received skills. You learned a trade. You either received an education from a trade school or you learned from an apprentice.

It’s important to give back to what you have learned and benefited from. Since a lot of the skills that led you to prosperous lives is not obtainable by a lot of people, it’s giving back to those individuals that will benefit the most. Trade Mentors is set up to do just that.

Skills for Life

There are many skills one needs to learn to live a successful life. And besides learning the particulars of a trade, to be successful at that trade, you need life skills to go with it. A potential tradesman needs to be able to conduct him or herself in a professional manner. He or she needs interpersonal skills and other skills that blend working the trade and life. Schools that teach trades don't usually teach life skills too. That's where mentors can come in. With real life experience and one-on-one teaching, everything that needs to be known to have a successful trade (and life) can be taught and mastered.

A mentor is more than just a teacher. There's more of an interest in the success in the recipient that is normally seen. With Trade Mentors this is important. It's about giving and with your generous donations, the giving can be more impactful. The mentors aren't alone in the success of who they're teaching. We all help.
The Trades, Trade Skills

The trades are skilled work. To do them they take an education, often a state certification is required. They take effort to learn and perform. As a result, they pay well. For someone who doesn't come from means or doesn't have access to an advanced education, working a trade is a way to a better life. Often though those without means or access to education can't get the resources to learn a trade and the certification requirements to become a tradesman. That's where Trade Mentors comes in. Mentors can provide some of the education necessary to learn and get certified in a particular trade. They can help direct and guide the donee on how to end up in the trade that best fits them.

Trade Mentors recruits mentors and finds recipients and joins them together. By donating to Trade Mentors, you help this happen and also provide additional resources to both the mentors and recipients. Mentors need various equipment and books to teach, especially in the trades. Recipients need costly certification to get a license to perform the trade. Mentors volunteer and their work is never paid. We try not to have recipients pay anything, but that's sometimes necessary. The more donations we receive, the less this is necessary.

Trade Mentors Model

Trade Mentors, Inc is a registered 501c3 public charity whose stated purpose is to help aspiring young men and women learn and work a trade to live a higher quality of life as well as give opportunities to those who have working knowledge and a want to pass on their knowledge by being a mentor. An opportunity to give is often just as much a benefit as what the recipient receives. Trade Mentors, with your generous donations, helps make this possible and makes it thrive.

Trade Mentors first starts recruiting mentors. These are men and women who are currently working or have recently retired from working a trade. We make a note of their availability and what their particular trades are and their expertise level. Then we find aspiring young men and women who want to pursue a career working their particular trades. We make sure they have the ability and motivation to get the education necessary. Beyond that we look at need. Put this all together and the mentoring process can begin.

We require a plan of action from both sides; the mentor and the student. We monitor the progress and the final results. Additionally, we find out what other resources are necessary and the ones that would benefit and the board makes a determination on what can be gifted.

Your donations are critical in this process. You make the whole thing work. Volunteers do most of the work but funds are necessary for certifications and equipment, books and supplies.

How Can a Tradesman Give Back?

Trade Mentors, Inc

Skills for Life

The Trades, Trade Skills

Trade Mentors Model