All Within My Hands Foundation (Metallica)

Our partners at Milwaukee Area Technical College hosted a “Heavy Metal Tour" to expose high schoolers to career paths they might not have considered before and introduce them to opportunities in manufacturing. “The mission of Metallica’s All Within My Hands aligns perfectly with our mission, which is to offer an education that transforms lives, industry, and community. This funding will help students enroll in our high-quality, in-demand programs that meet local employer and community needs, leading to careers that provide family-supporting wages and better lives.” - MATC President Vicki J. Martin So far, 40 of #MATC’s first 49 #MetallicaScholars have graduated, and another four are expected to graduate in December! #MetallicaScholarsMonday #MonthOfGiving2024 #AWMH #MetallicaGivesBack "

Our fifth annual Month of Giving launches today! With prongs two and three of our mission well-represented in Months of Giving past, this year, we focus on prong one: workforce education. As always, there are plenty of opportunities to join us! And join us, you have - in a big way! Since the launch of the Month of Giving fundraising and awareness campaign in 2020, we’ve granted more than $2.1 million to charitable organizations that align with our mission. Learn more about how you can participate all month long: https://lnkd.in/gihSa7Ng

As #NationalCommunityCollegeMonth wraps up, we want to acknowledge the incredible schools we partner with for our Metallica Scholars Initiative. Including Aiken Technical College, Central Community College, Central Piedmont Community College, Central Wyoming College, Clackamas Community College, Clark State College, Clinton Community College, College of Lake County, Columbia Gorge Community College, Columbia State Community College, Community College of Baltimore County, East Central College, Elizabethtown Community and Technical College, Front Range Community College, Gateway Technical College, Grand Rapids Community College, Guilford Technical Community College, Hudson County Community College, Itawamba Community College, Lone Star College, Middlesex Community College, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Northern Virginia Community College, Northwest Shoals Community College, Oxnard College, Pima Community College, Polk State College, Rockland Community College, Salt Lake Community College, San Juan College, Community Colleges of Spokane, South Central College, South Louisiana Community College, Texas State Technical College, Valencia College, Victor Valley College, West Virginia University at Parkersburg, SUNY Westchester Community College... yikes, we've exceeded the number of tags we are allowed! 🤘 Western Dakota Technical College and WSU-Tech are also a part of the Metallica Scholars Initiative. Over the last five years, we’ve invested over $8 million to support more than 5,000 hardworking students in career and technical education programs across 33 states. Of course, these numbers thrill us, but we can’t wait to see what year six brings! Pictured here are some enthusiastic administrators from these schools and the AACC who make the #MetallicaScholars program possible. #MetallicaScholarsMonday #AWMH #MetallicaGivesBack

April is #NationalWeldingMonth, so we’ve got to shout out a special welding program! Hudson County Community College does so much to provide paths to a brighter future through workforce education. Among its many programs, the school offers welding courses to previously incarcerated students eager to reenter society. College President Dr. Reber is pictured with Metallica Scholar Anthony at last year's graduation. #MetallicaScholars funds covered Anthony's welding program tuition. We love seeing all our scholars, regardless of their past, take their future into their own hands and build a sustainable career through trade education! #AWMH #MetallicaGivesBack

The tools of the trade! 🛠️ This #MetallicaScholarsMonday, we are showing off the toolkit that Northwest Shoals Community College provides for students in the HVAC program with their #MetallicaScholars funding. Natalie was stoked to get hers, saying, “The Metallica Scholarship helped me get a big head start. Most HVAC jobs require that you supply your own tools, and I didn’t have any of my own. It was very anxiety-inducing and stressful to have so many tools that are required for the field and see how expensive they can be. I am so grateful to have been picked for the Metallica Scholarship since they are able to supply what every technician would need to get started in the field. I am now able to get into my apprenticeship and build a career that I can be proud of.” #MetallicaScholarsMonday #MetallicaScholars #AWMH #MetallicaGivesBack

There’s something so incredible about one generation of powerful women raising the next! We love seeing this glimpse into the life of a Metallica Scholar at WSU Tech. And even more, we love hearing about Olivia's bright future as she embarks upon her career at Textron Aviation. Now that is one badass mom! Thank you, WSU Tech, for supporting women in the trades year-round. Learn more about our Metallica Scholars here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eY4ZpZkW #MetallicaScholarsMonday #WomensHistoryMonth #AWMH #MetallicaGivesBack #MetallicaScholars

Thank you for joining us on #InternationalWomensDay by shopping with Carhartt to raise $250,000 toward scholarships for women seeking education in the skilled trades! Five #MetallicaScholars schools - East Central College, Community College of Baltimore County, Grand Rapids Community College, SUNY Westchester Community College, and Western Dakota Technical College - will each receive $50,000 from the For the Love of Labor grant to support programs providing the next generation of hardworking women with the training and tools to take their future into their own hands. Hear from a few women involved with one of these beneficiaries: #GrandRapidsCC’s Heavy Metals - Women in Welding. 🔥 “When I received an email from GRCC with the subject line 'Women can be welders too!' I couldn't help but be intrigued. I immediately reached out to my mom and suggested that we take the class together. After all, we've always been a team, and this seemed like an exciting new adventure for both of us.” - Cheyenne Belonga and her mother, Tanya Contreras 🧰 “I know that I would like to work as a welder, but I’m not 100% sure what exactly I want to do. Definitely something creative, or maybe working with production for a band. I’m really interested in getting women into skilled trades. I’m working on creating a supportive network so that women can be successful. I loved this program. It has been phenomenal.” - Sydney Sayre #MetallicaScholarsMonday #Carhartt #ForTheLoveOfLabor #AWMH #MetallicaGivesBack #MetallicaScholars #WomensHistoryMonth

Tomorrow is International Women's Day! You can learn a bit about some of the many women who keep the Metallica mothership moving! Check out this week’s episode of The Metallica Report hosted by our Director of Philanthropy, Renee Richardson and featuring a few of the hard-working women very near and dear to our hearts. 🙏 Thanks to Addie Kellerman, Jena Rockwood, Sara Lyn Killion, Heather "Foster" Kjolldsal, @Hannah Davis, Kat Vollhoffer, and Eleni Psaltis for joining the show! Listen now 🎧 https://lnkd.in/esrN_qgD #AWMH #Metallica #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth

#AWMH and Carhartt are teaming up again, this time to provide the next generation of hardworking women with the training and tools needed to establish careers in the skilled trades. We are honored and incredibly excited to be the workwear brand’s 2024 For the Love of Labor grant recipient! In recognition of International Women's Day, the first $250k in sales of women's apparel across Carhartt retail stores, on Carhartt.com, and Reworked.carhartt.com will be donated to fund women in our #MetallicaScholars program. And we can’t think of a more appropriate way to celebrate the first #MetallicaScholarsMonday during #WomensHistoryMonth! Circle March 8 on your calendars and get ready to pick up some new women’s gear from Carhartt to support a great cause! #Carhartt #MetallicaGivesBack #InternationalWomensDay #ForTheLoveOfLabor

This week’s #MetallicaScholarsMonday story hits particularly close to home. Meet James, now a Driver/Technician for Guardian Barrier Services and a graduate of West Virginia University at Parkersburg. James learned of #AWMH and the #MetallicaScholars program nearly two years into his time at #WVUParkersburg, and as a huge Metallica fan who qualified for the scholarship, it was a match made in heaven. Enter #GuardianBarrierServices, a company you might be (unknowingly) very familiar with, especially if you’ve seen a show from the rail! Thanks to our partners at Wolverine Boots & Apparel, WVU Parkersburg students got to see #Metallica in Pittsburgh, where Guardian conducted a presentation for the students. James stood out thanks to his obvious interest in the field. Fast-forward a few months, and James was officially a member of the Guardian team, driving and operating trucks and equipment, hauling equipment and gear to different venues and festivals in the music industry, and working in the warehouse. What can we say? We love a full-circle Metallica Scholars/AWMH moment! Get to know our Metallica Scholars ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dgyi874Q #MetallicaGivesBack