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With the precast concrete industry growing ever more technical and competitive and with customers demanding higher quality at lower prices, it is vital to recruit, train and retain a top-quality workforce. Where will your future employees come from? And how will your company keep up with the rapidly expanding knowledge base required for companies to compete in a quality-driven, cost-competitive environment?
Since 1989, the NPCA Educational Foundation has awarded scholarships to students preparing for future careers as engineers in the construction industry. Now is the time to expand our scope to aggressively promote the benefits of precast over other materials through a multipronged education initiative targeting the specifying community.
The NPCA Educational Foundation further believes that decisive action is needed now to enable companies to recruit, train and retain a top-notch workforce that will deliver consistently high-quality products to our customers.
THE FUTURE IS NOW
The NPCA Educational Foundation has committed to a bold
plan to support the future of the precast concrete industry, and we need
your help to make it happen. The Foundation has embarked on a $3 million
campaign to create an endowment that would fund a host of education and
technical training initiatives for production personnel, engineering students,
specifiers, owners and end users. The interest earned from this endowment
will be invested annually in initiatives that will have a direct benefit
to NPCA member companies in the following key areas:
| Area of Emphasis | Investment | Annual Return |
| Growing Precast Markets through Education |
$750,000 | $37,500 |
| Precast Education of Specifiers, Owners and End Users |
$750,000 | $37,500 |
| Workforce Development, Quality Control and Safety | $1,000,000 | $50,000 |
| Expanding Education of Architectural and Engineering Students |
$500,000 | $25,000 |
| Total Fundraising Goal |
$3,000,000 | |
| Annual Investment in NPCA Activities | $150,000 | |