Vance-Granville named a finalist in NACCE’s Pitch for the Skilled Trades Competition
Ken Wilson, Grants Administrator, and Stephanie Tolbert, Dean of Business & Applied Technologies, accept VGCC's award at the NACCE's Pitch for the Trades Competition in 2022.
This fall, college teams from across the nation will come together at the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) 2023 Annual Conference and 21st Anniversary Celebration to compete for a share of $150,000. Vance-Granville Community College has been selected as a finalist for the NACCE Pitch for the Skilled Trades Competition, which will take place October 29–November 1 in Nashville, TN.
Pitch for the Skilled Trades is a competition opportunity sponsored by the Philip E. & Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation , offering faculty, staff, administrators, and presidents from NACCE member colleges the chance to pitch to a panel of judges and potentially win funding! Competitive projects are those that demonstrate greatest economic impact on the local level with respect to jobs created, employment obtained, income earned, and businesses launched.
According to their website, NACCE is our nation’s leading co-creator and distributor of resources to transform underserved communities through community college engagement. NACCE represents 330+ community and technical colleges and more than 3,000 faculty, staff, administrators, and presidents who serve over four million students.
At last year’s NACCE conference, teams from VGCC won $60,000 in funding across two competitions, along with the 2022 Entrepreneurial College of the Year Award .
