by Bill Blaul | Oct 3, 2018 | Education & Employment, Energizing Youth, Progress
Workers in the skilled trades are increasingly in demand throughout metro Detroit and the DTE Energy Foundation is ensuring opportunity becomes reality for thousands of Detroiters seeking the training they need to land career-level jobs. The Foundation recently...
by Bill Blaul | Sep 27, 2018 | Education & Employment, Energizing Youth, Progress
On their way to starting careers, countless students have endured summer internships hyped as job experience but instead became a slog of opening mail, filing, answering phones and waiting around. Not so at DTE Energy where this summer more than 1,000 college and high...
by Bill Blaul | Sep 26, 2018 | Education & Employment, Energizing Youth, Progress
Now in its second year of offering a rapid path to career-track energy jobs, the Power and Trades Pathways Program at Henry Ford College in Dearborn has produced its first graduates and admissions are growing. The Power and Trades Pathways program prepares students...
by Bill Blaul | Aug 31, 2018 | Education & Employment, Energizing Youth, People, Progress
Generations of skilled tradespeople built the Motor City, put the world on wheels, and created the American middle class. In recent decades though, interest in skilled trades careers has diminished among youth and young adults nationwide along with vocational...
by Bill Blaul | May 31, 2018 | Education & Employment, People, Your Neighborhood
Recognized for their excellence in youth arts education, teachers from a high school in Detroit and an elementary school in Ann Arbor are the 2018 DTE Energy Foundation Educators of the Year. Denise Allen, a dance instructor at Detroit’s Martin Luther King, Jr. High...
by DTE Energy Foundation | Apr 15, 2018 | Education & Employment
For generations, an abundance of skilled tradespeople in southeast Michigan built the region into a manufacturing powerhouse. In recent decades, economic downturns evaporated the trades talent pool, pushing electricians, plumbers, carpenters, pipefitters,...
