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We support collision repair educational programs, schools and students to create qualified, entry-level employees and connect them with an array of career opportunities.
The Donation Exchange powered by CREF builds a designated and uninterrupted bridge between our partnering donors and the schools, instructors and students that we support.
Here, our donors offer collision repair resources – everything from safety equipment and apparel to paint and body materials and parts. Instructors are able to explore available items and obtain them for use in their training.
As a direct result, each of these collision repair education programs are better-equipped to deliver excellent instruction. This, in turn, produces qualified entry-level technicians that the industry desperately needs.
Encouraging local donations, lowering carbon emissions related to long-distance delivery
Eliminating disposal of expired product into a landfill, progressing toward zero-waste
Extending the life of products such as damaged quarter panels, hand tools and consumables, converting them into effective training resources
"We are the only Collision Repair program that has earned SkillsUSA’s highest honor,
which is the Model of Excellence Award.
What is our secret? Well, it's not our humble budget of $4,000.
We have received endless in-kind donations such as tools, equipment and consumables from CREF.
In a single day's training activities, my students are going learn how to use stud welders, which were donated to us through CREF.
It gets better though, because my students will be practicing on quarter panels, which were also supplied through CREF
My students will even be wearing CREF donations, in the form of safety glasses.
They say that one man's trash can be another man's treasure. I say that one company's excess can become my students' success.
On behalf of the NHS Collision Repair Program, thank you!"
Ken Cook
Instructor-Automotive Collision Repair
Norwalk High School
