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Association News
 AC Speaker Spotlight: Joshua Franklin, MBA, CSP, SMS, CET, CPCU, ARM Breakout Session: Safety’s Competitive Advantage and the Value of Safety and Health Certification in Construction About Joshua:
Bored of her decade-long career as a graphic designer, Blue Coble of Phoenix ditched her desk job and picked up a wrench instead. Now she helps inspire other women to pursue a career in construction.
“I was a manager, and making good money for what graphic designers can make,” Coble says. But at the time in her late 20s, she had “hit the ceiling of what I could do where I was. I wanted more.”
Inspired by seeing ironworkers assemble the iconic Hoover Dam Bridge spanning Arizona and Nevada, she began to think about performing the physically demanding work herself. After checking out Local Union 75 in Phoenix, Coble decided to give it a go. “I ended up really falling in love with it, and the union was really supportive, so it was easy to stay,” she says.
Source: enr.com
To reduce the stress you feel during peak workloads, it helps to be prepared. Think about the times when you're at your busiest, like during popular vacation times or before a monthly board meeting, and plan ahead to tackle the extra work.
Source: asae.com
New Funding to Support Women in Apprenticeship, Expand Job Opportunities – WANTO Grant Program “Apprenticeships provide a pathway to family-sustaining jobs,” said Women’s Bureau Acting Director Erica Clayton Wright. “As the Trump administration works to expand apprenticeship across all industries and sectors of our economy, we remain committed to advancing women’s access to these opportunities.” The Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) grant program will award $1.5 million to community-based organizations to encourage women's employment in apprenticeship and nontraditional occupations. Grants will be awarded to up to six community-based organizations. Applicants must provide one or more of the following types of technical assistance:
Grant applications are due on July 8. Please note that this year, the Funding Opportunity Announcement appears under a new Assistance Listing Number (17.701). Click here to view the solicitation for grant applications. You can find the list of 2018 grant recipients on the Women’s Bureau WANTO page. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Education / Training
Description: Do you have the personal power you need to achieve your goals? Learn the true meaning of personal power by joining this PD&E Webinar.
Date: Tuesday, June 18 at Noon CST Presenters: Julie Salinas & Vickie Nickel, CIT Attendees: Current NAWIC Members Join the session: http://www.nawic.org/nawic/Webinars.asp 
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a $19 billion natural disaster relief and recovery bill that includes billions for infrastructure work.
Source: ConstructionDive.com
Approaching the halfway mark of the year, the commercial construction industry is strong, staving off any premature cooling before an impending economic downturn and integrating innovation in relatively slow but steady measures all the time.
But what do experts anticipate for the rest of the year and going into next?
Source: ConstructionDive.com
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Dove Sifers-Putman, Southeast Market Manager for Environamics, moderated a second panel with women working in the industry, which she calls “male-populated” rather than “male-dominated.” And for panelist Rebecca Axford, director of Raleigh-Durham Electrical JATC, events like this demonstrated progress that she hoped to see for women in the trades..png)
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