Support the Trades – Hope Builds Life

Closing the Trades Gap

Support the trades by assisting apprentices starting their careers. While many organizations focus on college scholarships, there’s limited support for recent graduates entering the trades. Hope Builds Life addresses this by providing high school students start filling out their tool chest, ensuring they have what they need to succeed.

Don't stop yet!

We are grateful with the funding and support for 2025 but this ongoing program needs your support.

While it is fully funded this year, with more generosity, we can support even more new tradesmen and women.

Help us reach our stretch goal of $3,000 for three more scholarships

Attracting people to the trade industry is crucial for fostering economic growth and meeting essential infrastructure needs.

As skilled tradespeople retire, there is a pressing demand for new talent to fill these roles.

The trade industry offers stable careers with competitive salaries and opportunities for advancement. Moreover, it plays a vital role in building and maintaining the fabric of society, from constructing homes to maintaining critical infrastructure.

Encouraging young individuals and career changers to explore trades ensures a robust and sustainable workforce for the future.

For every FIVE tradesmen that retire

only ONE person joins the trades to replace them.

Hope Builds Life's Mission Critical Objective

The Future Texas Entrepreneurs program teaches the next generation business builders and leaders. The program includes:

Supply new trades professionals with tools
Provide funding for certifications
Provide funding for trade school scholarships
Provide job readiness programs
Offer small business creation help and coaching

The news talks a lot about student debt relief. What about the hard working trades industries that didn’t get help when the started out? There aren’t many ways to get access to funds for tools and certifications early in an apprentice’s career and it can slow down their ability to progress.

Hope Builds Life helps give our hard working men and women a head start in their career in the trades. We help all professionals we consider part of the trades industry.

With the trades gap growing each year, Hope Builds Life lowers the barrier of entry to encourage more people to join, otherwise we will all be in for a rough time when the skills needed to keep the world running, are lost.

Construction Careers Academy Tool Grants

With CCA becoming a partner with Hope Builds Life. They are a Texas Magnate school focusing students on a career in construction and construction management.