Workshops for Warriors is a board-run, fully audited, 501(c)(3) nonprofit offering veterans free training and certification in advanced manufacturing skills.

OUR MISSIONTo place Veterans and Wounded Warriors into advanced manufacturing careers by providing them with industry-leading training, nationally recognized portable credentials, work experience, and job placement. We are rebuilding America’s advanced manufacturing workforce, one veteran at a time.

Training is provided at no cost to veterans.

U.S. Veterans face significant barriers to civilian employment, and a high unemployment rate.

We believe veterans can rebuild the advanced manufacturing workforce in the U.S.

All of our graduates have been placed into jobs earning competitive livable wages.

Our organization’s work serves the dual benefit of providing veterans with life-sustaining careers, and helping to regrow America’s manufacturing workforce.

More than 80% of American manufacturers surveyed reported a moderate or severe shortage of skilled workers – translating into approximately 600,000 available jobs that are currently going unfilled. This lack of high-skilled labor translates into an 11%, or $4.6M annual loss in revenue to the average American manufacturer.Source: Accenture 2014 Manufacturing Skills and Training Study

JOB PLACEMENT RATE:

100% VETS CURRENTLY ENROLLED:

49GRADUATES:

150WAITING & INTEREST LIST

550+Since 2011

Placing veterans into advanced manufacturing careers

• Classes are FREE to all veterans, their spouses and survivors.

• We offer classes in Machinery Repair, CAD/CAM, Machining, and Welding Fabrication in 4-month modules.

• Our students earn credentials from:• National Institute Metalworking Skills (NIMS)• American Welding Society (AWS) • Mastercam University • SolidWorks • Flow Waterjet• Immerse to Learn• Occupational Safety Health Admin. (OSHA) • American Red Cross

• For welding, we have 18 booths with state-of-the-art ventilation system and teach the equivalent of a Navy “C” school.

• For machining, we offer training on 4 CNC vertical mills (Haas VF2), CNC lathe (Haas ST20).

• For computer-aided design & manufacturing, we offer training on Solidworks and Mastercam software, and have 8 Haas CNC control simulators for classroom instruction.

Workshops for Warriors, Inc.

What our students say“I had all these skills that I learned in the Navy but no way to translate them into the civilian sector. Employers would just look at my resume and have no idea what I was saying or how they can use me in their company and I would walk away with no job. Finding Workshops for Warriors was a blessing because now I take the tools that they are giving me to show how I can be an asset to any company with portable credentials that will be recognized anywhere in the world”

- Christopher Castillo, 8 years serving the US Navy

“After completing sixteen months of training at Workshops for Warriors I hold 31 nationally-recognized credentials.”

- Paul Filler, 4 years serving the US Marines Corps

“I have already found two different jobs through Workshops for Warriors… in one year of free schooling I increased my earnings by 270%”

- Mike Gallagher, 5 years serving the US Marine Corps

“I have struggled with civilian work for over a decade. I just finished my first four-month semester at Workshops. I felt welcome and supported from the very first day. I acquired my NIMS level 1 certification. I received approx. 50 hours of hands-on training on the machines, in addition to classroom and simulator time. If I stopped now, I could get a stable job… but my hope is that I will be able to complete the full program here- another three semesters of four months each- and have a great career. I wish that more people in the community could see what happens at Workshops every day. It’s been a long time since I had this kind of support to get a career on track.”

- Jason Madurski, 8 years serving the US Navy

Our biggest challenge is reliable funding

• We have capacity to train 300 students per year, but only have funding for 50.

• Our facility costs are $60,000 per month.

• Each student costs us $7,000 per semester.

• We do not receive ANY government funding.

• Our students cannot use GI bill benefits.

How we currently fund our programWe keep costs and overhead low so that 95% of our donations go straight to training veterans

• Donated time from instructors and staff• Donated or discounted materials (computers, software, metals, tools)• Collaboration with other nonprofits

We receive private donations, largely from corporate industry leaders • Donated or loaned machinery• Financial donations

We are funded by a social enterprise, WFW Industries, which uses our facilities and donates all profits to fund our school.

$$$WFW Industries donates all of its profits to Workshops for Warriors, and is Workshops

for Warriors’ largest source of funding.

Corporate Donors & Partners

Step 1: Be in existence for 2

years

Step 2: Become accredited (2-7

years – can be in parallel with Step

1)

Step 3: Become approved as a

school by California (application is

under consideration)

Step 4: Operate as an approved school for 2 years (1 year

back-dating allowed)

Step 5: Eligible to receive federal

funding

(September 2016)

Step 2: Become

Our goal is to become eligible for federal funding

What federal funds will immediately achieve

• Decrease veteran attrition and increase number of veterans able to complete full 16-month program.

• Publish course offerings and class schedules ahead of time, enabling more veterans to enroll.

• Teach to facility capacity, increase throughput, and lower per-student costs.

• Decrease the number of veterans we have to turn away or place on a waiting list.

• Allow us to focus our efforts and resources on providing training, rather than fundraising.

• Expand our programs to reach more veterans.

Expand from this location to Centers of

Need (CON) close to manufacturing, military,

and veteran concentration areas.

Status: Projected 2017

Phase 7: EXPAND

NATIONALLY

Exercise option to buy existing property (by July 2015). Build out

state of the art headquarters for

Advanced Manufacturing Training

facility in San Diego. Status: In progress.

Projected Goal: June 2016

Phase 6: CREATE THE

MODEL

Expand the Board. Train, certify, and place

students in eight classes per semester,

six days a week. Achieve sustainable

operations and develop required infrastructure to position organization

for sustainable expansion. Begin

“Train the Trainer” classes and collect

student data.Purchased adjacent

property. Status: Completed

2014

Phase 5: LOCAL

OPERATIONS

Move into larger facility, develop

pathway to educational credentialing and

accreditation (NIMS, AWS, SolidWorks,

MasterCam, HTEC). Begin offering classes in

Machining, CAD, CAM, and Fabrication with

certifications. Status: Completed

2013

Phase 4: ACCREDITATION

Develop curriculum, acquire advanced

equipment and tooling, begin Pilot Class

(welding). Status: Completed

2011

Phase 3: PROOF OF CONCEPT

Acquire initial equipment, facility and

raise seed funding.Status: Completed

2010

Phase 2: START-UP

Develop business plan, Board of Directors, and

proof of concept. Obtain 501(c3) legal

status. Status: Completed

2008

Phase 1: INCEPTION

Program Costs• $8,000/semester• $32,000/full 16-month

program

Student Stipends• $2,500/month• $10,000/semester• $40,000/full 16-month

program

Bridge Funding• $85k/month ops cost • We estimate we are 26 months

away from federal funding.• $2.21M total bridge funding

needed

Capital Campaign• Land purchase $1.75M• Facility build-out $0.5M• Main Campus Dev $8M

Our Needs NOW

How Navy Leadership Can Support Us

Execute a Memorandum of Agreement to allow us to train onboard an installation.

Reach out to Commands to help us train active duty service members under TAD orders.

Help us to become an NEC-granting school. Allow us to teach the machining and welding skills most needed.

Thank you for supporting our efforts to help veterans!