Vermont’s way to work.
Serve Learn Earn is a Vermont-based nonprofit collaborative that’s using a collective impact model to help solve our state’s workforce development challenges. By banding together, our cooperative of well-respected organizations is providing Vermonters with more opportunities to gain important skills, give back to the community, and earn compensation while they work toward a rewarding career.
Creating a Lasting, Positive Impact for Vermont
With a focus on the trades and conservation work, SLE’s programs are helping to forge stronger communities across Vermont.
Serve Learn Earn by the Numbers
1,000 participants
ages 14+
7,500 weeks of service and training
300+ credentials of value
$2.75M in participant wages and stipends
A Clear Need.
An Innovative Approach.
Vermont has a critical need for more workers and our population growth isn’t keeping pace with demand. Young people often leave the state for opportunities elsewhere. It’s expensive to live here. Pathways to well-paying jobs are hard to find in our rural communities. And a college education often feels out of reach. Put all those factors together and it’s no surprise that Vermont is facing a critical shortage of workers in just about every sector.
Fortunately, Serve Learn Earn is here to help work toward a solution. Through our collective impact model, SLE is creating accessible pathways into high-wage careers and an affordable education. Each of our programs provides training and the opportunity to serve the state through projects in critical areas such as housing, food security, outdoor infrastructure, conservation, weatherization, environmental education, and more.
We’ve all got a lot of work to do.
We believe Vermont can have a robust and equitable workforce with the capacity to meet our housing, economic, and climate goals. Since 2020, Serve Learn Earn partners have joined forces to help address Vermont’s significant workforce shortages.
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