{"id":338931,"date":"2026-06-16T21:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338931\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:44:16","slug":"hcc-to-launch-trade-program-with-17m-investment-from-bloomberg-philanthropies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338931\/","title":{"rendered":"HCC to launch trade program with $17M investment from Bloomberg Philanthropies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hccs.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston City College<\/a> has received a $17 million investment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.org\/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=20491470640&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADpCu1H4VqgoucU0KRTN683Q1Q_Bh&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw6MPRBhBTEiwAd-7Mr9_hcvMXvuO9Qzjnb_Yg3M7VziURAe12DA-4W8zagELnORRZUuLQfRoCcYMQAvD_BwE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Philanthropies<\/a> to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hccs.edu\/tradeup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast TradeUp Careers<\/a>, a program aimed at providing free training in skilled trades and connecting students with paid apprenticeship opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>At a glance<\/p>\n<p>The program is a part of a new $90 million national effort from Bloomberg Philanthropies to change how high school students prepare for high-paying and skilled trades, officials said in a June 8 news release.<\/p>\n<p>The program, which is spearheaded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hccs.edu\/programs--courses\/workforce-training--apprenticeships\/gulf-coast-region-apprenticeship-hub\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast Region Apprenticeship Hub<\/a>, is intended to strengthen the area in:<\/p>\n<p>Skilled trades workforce developmentRegistered apprenticeship expansionIndustry-driven career pathwaysEarn-and-learn education modelsWorkforce innovationThe program is being developed with several partners including HCC, the <a href=\"https:\/\/houston.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greater Houston Partnership<\/a>, school districts in the Greater Houston area\u2014including Houston and Alief ISDs\u2014as well as several workforce organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead<\/p>\n<p>The program, which is slated to begin in August, is set to serve 1,350 students over three years. However, HCC Foundation Board Chair David Itz said the foundation is preparing for what comes after those three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ll be planning through that whole time to keep things up and keep it going, but this is a terrific start,\u201d Itz said. \u201cIf we can make this a success, it will be a model for other communities all over the country to develop their workforce and their economies.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston City College has received a $17 million investment from Bloomberg Philanthropies to launch Gulf Coast TradeUp Careers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6909,12272,56,43249,58,57,120812,75972],"class_list":["post-338931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bloomberg","tag-gulf-coast","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-college","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-trade-school","tag-trades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}