A partnership between the SME Education Foundation and Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation (MEAF) is helping enrich the manufacturing talent pipeline by providing scholarships to neurodiverse students.
Training employees and customers on its products has always been an important part of the organizational ethos at Rollomatic, a Swiss-based manufacturer of precision grinding machines that was founded more than 30 years ago.
Charlie Shor, founder and Chairman of the Charles L. Shor Foundation, is on a mission to revitalize U.S. manufacturing and restore middle-class job opportunities.
In 2008, the SME Education Foundation began a long-term partnership with PPG, an industrial coatings provider, by administering a scholarship for the PPG Foundation, the philanthropic arm of PPG.
Haimer USA — the Illinois-based U.S. subsidiary of a German company that develops, manufactures and distributes high-precision products for metal cutting — recently invested in the SME Education Foundation with a $25,000 donation to fund two renewing scholarships.
Funded with a nearly seven-figure, transformational gift from the estate of Jerry Wickman, the SME Education Foundation has created the Jerry L. Wickman Scholarship — geared toward providing need-based support to Latina students.