Meet our Grantees

Project For Pride in Living provides employment training, workshops, and credentialed programs focused on overcoming barriers to employment and job retention.

Keilan:

Hello, how you guys doing? My name is Keilan Crawford. I am a graduate of the BOT program through PPL.

If you are in a predicament that I was in, like you know you want more, you know you want to do better, you know your kids deserve better, but you just don’t know how to really go about it. I think PPL is the perfect place. 

BOT is a classroom that is sponsored by the PPL Family… Building Operation Technician. They expose us to the different types of stuff that you will have to do in building operation: basic plumbing training, basic electricity training, things of that nature. It helped and definitely shaped my mind into knowing what I wanted to do next.

Now I am a full-time student at MCTC, Minneapolis Community Technical College, for HVAC. I’m going there to get my associate’s degree. I’m also hired at the State of Minnesota. My title is PME Helper, so like every few weeks I jump from building to building helping the different building engineers. 

I would recommend PPL to anybody.

Learn more about Constellation’s grantee partners at constellationfund.org/grantees.