贝莱德将技术行业推广为通往高薪职业的有前途之路，于周四宣布向贝莱德未来建设者计划的15名首届获奖者提供1300万美元的赠款。
BlackRock, promoting skilled trades as a promising path to a well-paying career, on Thursday announced $13 million in grants to 15 inaugural winners of the BlackRock Future Builders program.
为何重要：贝莱德基金会的赠款涵盖电气、建筑、暖通空调、焊接、管道、管道安装、重型设备操作和其他基础设施相关职业。
Why it matters: The grants from the BlackRock Foundation span trades that include electrical, construction, HVAC, welding, plumbing, pipefitting, heavy equipment operation and other infrastructure-related occupations.
贝莱德董事长兼首席执行官拉里·芬克正在推广技术行业信息，周三在底特律福特加速峰会上露面，周四在阿肯色州本顿维尔的心脏地带前进组织的心脏地带峰会上露面。
Larry Fink, BlackRock's chairman and CEO, is promoting the skilled trades message with appearances Wednesday at Ford's Accelerate summit in Detroit and on Thursday at Heartland Forward's Heartland Summit in Bentonville, Arkansas.
放大视角：获奖者包括与女性、退伍军人、前被监禁者和部落社区合作的团体。贝莱德表示，这些赠款将帮助26个州的5400多人为十几个技术行业的职业生涯做好准备。
Zoom out: The winners include groups that work with women, veterans, formerly incarcerated individuals and tribal communities. The grants will help more than 5,400 individuals across 26 states prepare for careers in more than a dozen skilled trades, BlackRock said.
这些组织包括工会培训中心、工会附属组织、商会、学院和大学、劳动力中介机构和社区非营利组织。
The organizations include union training centers, union-affiliated organizations, chambers of commerce, colleges and universities, workforce intermediaries and community-based nonprofits.
贝莱德表示，受赠者将“扩大学徒和预备学徒机会，向更多年轻人介绍技术行业职业，并帮助工人获得实践培训和行业认可的证书”。
Grantees will "expand apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship opportunities, introduce more young people to skilled trades careers, and help workers access hands-on training and industry-recognized credentials," BlackRock said.
芬克在公告中表示：“美国对能够建设和维护我们国家所依赖的技术工人有巨大需求，这些可以是数百万美国人的好工作。”
Fink said in the announcement: "America has enormous demand for skilled trades workers who can build and maintain what our country depends on, and these can be great jobs for millions of Americans."
他说，未来建设者正在“投资于知道如何将这一机会转化为持久职业生涯的组织：帮助人们获得所需的培训，并将他们与需要其技能的雇主联系起来。”
He said Future Builders is "investing in organizations that know how to turn that opportunity into lasting careers: helping people get the training they need and connecting them with employers who need their skills."