Apprenticeships and other for profit training academies
We have had an uptick in students attending for profit training academies as well as bypassing "traditional" post-secondary education plans and doing apprenticeships. Our organizational policy states that we cannot payout a grant to an individual or for-profit entity. Other organizations with the same policy in place, how are you handling similar situations to this? Has anyone else seen this uptick? How are you handling/paying out these types of scenarios?
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Kelly,
Sorry this response is so late, but hopefully this helps. To get scholarship payments out for students who were attending for-profit training facilities, we partnered with a local non-profit that works with individuals in the career training space. In my case in Michigan, it was MichiganWorks and a local chapter near my community foundation. The community foundation handles the application, selection of scholarship recipients, and initial payment. I reach out to my contact when I have student that I've flagged and we send the payment to MichiganWorks and they work directly with the student since they have more flexibility in this space.
We have had a lot of success with this so that we can support the student who is attending linemen school at a university and linemen school at a for-profit company. We've also been able to use this partnership to help students in their next career training move - for example, maybe they needs tools or equipment. MichiganWorks has been able to facilitate that process on our behalf. Apprenticeships has been trickier, I've really only had luck in the tools/equipment space in these cases.
I hope this helps! Feel free to reach out if you have questions.
-Megan
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