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In advance of her October exhibition at Toolbox Gallery, where she will become the first craft trade professional to be featured, Liz Nichols sat down with Amaha Million, Toolbox’s Editorial and Storytelling lead, for a conversation about her path from ...

Workers give inside look at life in the trades Job title: Journeyman carpenter Years of work experience: 4-7 School/training program attended: Northwest College of Construction I’m a carpenter with a passion for building from the ground up. My career began ...

Nonprofit offers construction pathway for Portland-area youth By Hilary Dorsey For 30 years, Portland YouthBuilders has helped young people change their lives through education, vocational training, counseling, career development and long-term support. The mission of Portland YouthBuilders (PYB) is to ...

Trade association chapters hone youth outreach strategies to address workforce shortage By Scott Huish The construction industry’s workforce shortage already was a critical concern even before the pandemic, when the industry lost more than 1 million jobs and was set ...

By Chuck Slothower It wasn’t until graduate school that Portland developer Anyeley Hallová was exposed to real estate development as a career field. She wants to make sure that doesn’t happen to another generation of kids. Hallová, founder of the ...

By Melody Finnemore Andrew Colas, author of “A Kids Book About Construction” in partnership with Portland’s Colas Construction Inc., said he was inspired to write the book so that children and their parents could see the industry as he experienced ...

By Chuck Slothower For Knife River Corp., exposing students to construction means an experiential visit to the training center. Every year, dozens of students visit the construction giant’s 23-acre training center east of Albany, getting up close and personal with ...

Last fall, Portland Community College, the PCC Foundation and Union Pacific cut the chain on a new future for the college’s welding training. The mobile center was made possible due to an initial investment of $375,000 over three years by ...

Education Northwest conducted an evaluation for Clackamas Community College about the impacts of its Career Pathways certificates and programs and the Future Ready Oregon grant funding it received.