Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) is one institution selected for Year 7 of the prestigious Metallica Scholars Initiative (MSI), earning a $25,000 grant from All Within My Hands (AWMH), Metallica’s philanthropic foundation. The funding will provide scholarships of up to $1,000 each for 20 NWTC students attempting to ride the lightning to high-wage careers in fields such as manufacturing, health care, human services, construction, IT, and transportation.
Dr. Meredith Jaeger, executive director of the NWTC Foundation, expressed gratitude for the continued partnership, emphasizing that the initiative fuels communities through education and workforce training. NWTC can now turn the page on a third consecutive year participating in MSI.
The memory remains that after its establishment in 2019 by AWMH and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), the Metallica Scholars Initiative began with 10 colleges and now 75 institutions across all 50 U.S. states and abroad. In Year 7, AWMH is distributing its largest grant to date, approximately $3 million, supporting an estimated 10,000 students nationwide.
AWMH’s ongoing success relies on collaboration with a battery of partners such as Carhartt, Wolverine, CNH, and Metallica’s global fan community. Since its founding, AWMH has granted over $25 million to workforce education, attempting to end hunger relief, and sad but true, disaster recovery efforts.
