NACCE’s establishment of the Philip E. & Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation Center of Entrepreneurship & Innovation provides additional support for each year’s cohort of Pitch for the Trades award recipients as well as the annual continuation of the Pitch for the Trades competition each year.
Pitch for the Skilled Trades is a competition opportunity for faculty, staff, administrators, foundation leaders, and presidents from NACCE member colleges to pitch to a panel of judges and potentially win funding! Competitive projects are those that demonstrate “greatest” economic impact on the local level with respect to jobs created, employment obtained, income earned, and businesses launched. One final component that is part of the assessment is the return on investment. What is the projected impact if awarded funding for your project in expanding it through additional funding sources, new partnerships both on campus and from the community, and the overall impact on students both in the proposed program on possibly other programs.