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Invest in Changing a Life Through a TMCF Program

Through our programs, talented students from diverse backgrounds gain access to lifelong rewards: from an affordable college experience, to innovative leadership and career readiness development, to exposure to exciting career fields in a challenging job market and direct access to leaders of industry.

With your support, we can continue to build the pipeline of extraordinary future leaders in science, technology, business, education, health, law and other areas critical to building a competitive workforce in the twenty-first century.

Benefits of Investing in a TMCF Program

Access to Highly Qualified and Diverse Talent

A Pipeline of Talent

Brand Exposure

We help expose the employer brand amongst a new audience and help tell the story about what makes the employer unique or stand out to students who are looking for jobs. Positive employer branding helps to attract potential candidates and retain quality employees, who are crucial to the success and growth of the business. Employers receive brand exposure to the student population via workshops, immersions, and networking events.

Select a TMCF Program That Best Meets Your Organizational Objectives

Customized Leadership Development and Career Advancement

Corporate Scholar Programs

TMCF Corporate Scholar Programs promote career readiness through scholarships, leadership development, boot camps, and immersive experiences for hand-selected student leaders attending HBCUs and PBIs. These highly competitive and unique programs leverage the knowledge, experience, and network of top employers from around the country and TMCF staff to foster a collaborative learning community. Students develop key leadership skills, nurture their originality and receive hands-on experience that will prepare them to be career ready as they join the workforce.

Corporate partners that have participated in these unique programs include:

Altria
Apple
The Boeing Company
Hennessy

Leadership Development and Employment Opportunities

Leadership Institute. The award-winning Leadership Institute is a national program intended to develop students’ leadership skills, create a community of scholars, provide companies access to a talented and diverse student population and help students make connections that lead to careers.

Leadership Institute is a power-packed four-day conference that will prepare juniors, seniors and graduates students attending TMCF member schools to compete in today's competitive global workforce. A key component of this experience is the recruitment fair, conducted throughout Leadership Institute, where leading companies and government agencies representatives will engage with students and offer interviews, internships and full-time job opportunities.

DevCon. DevCon is a regional conference centered on professional development for college freshmen and sophomores from public and private historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Attendees immerse themselves in professional and leadership training, engage in hands-on workshops, gain insights into business essentials and enjoy direct access to TMCF’s esteemed corporate partners and opportunities.

During the three-and-a-half-day conference, TMCF identifies a pool of top-tier early-talent students who can change the current corporate, governmental and technical landscape while advancing company capabilities.

Workforce Development Summit. The TMCF Workforce Development Summit is designed to connect forward-thinking industry partners with work-ready talent from historically Black community colleges (HBCCs), which play a critical role in local and regional economic development through workforce innovation, industry-recognized certifications and associate degree programs. These credentials position students to enter the workforce, filling skilled positions that offer good pay and a promising future. TMCF recognizes the need to drive economic mobility and dismantle barriers to employment through alternative educational and career pathways.

K-12 Teaching Pipeline

Teacher Quality & Retention Program

Our Teacher Quality & Retention Program proactively addresses and positively impacts the needs of teachers that will make significant contributions to the local and national K-12 education pipeline. To build a pipeline of college-ready students, the program has trained nearly 300 classroom teachers, who impact more than 30,000 K-12 students each year. TQRP provides high-quality, pre-service training, as well as personalized support once teachers enter into the classroom. TQRP also offers an intense two-week Summer Institute to develop sound pedagogy, discuss and demonstrate research-based educational practices, and analyze current educational policy – all with the goal of developing the skills of future teacher leaders.

Customized Onsite Activation

Immersions and Boot Camps

The TMCF Immersion and Boot Camp experiences allow TMCF partners to engage selected HBCU and PBI students in specific activities and simulations to both expose them to career opportunities within the company and to evaluate their qualifications and soft skills. Students gain valuable hands-on experience by tackling real-world business challenges and working hand-in-hand with senior business leaders.

Current Immersion Partners

Apple
Boeing
Hennessy
Freddie Mac
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
USDA – National Resources Conservation Service

CONTACT:
For more information on how we can customize a new program for you or how you can support one of our current programs, email partners@tmcf.org or call 202.507.4851.