The Foundation for Job Creation — JobCreation.us
A program of the Foundation

RooferSchool

Mobile trade training that goes where the need is. The trade first, then the business behind it.

The trade

Roofing is one of the few trades a person can enter without a degree, without a loan, and without a year of waiting — and still be earning a real wage inside a season. The work is hard and it is honest, and there is more of it than there are people willing to do it.

RooferSchool is mobile by design. Instead of asking people to travel to a campus, the training travels to them, and it targets urban areas deliberately — the places where the need for work is highest and the training options are thinnest.

The part nobody teaches

Learning to install a roof gets a person a job. Learning what happens to the money is what changes a life. So the training carries a second half:

  • How to price a job so you don’t lose money winning it
  • How to start and run a roofing or construction business of your own
  • How to research a stock and understand what you actually own
  • What to do with what you earn, so the work compounds into something

This is the whole idea of the Foundation in one program: no handouts, just stimulated opportunity. A skill, then the knowledge to build on it.

Where we’ll be

RooferSchool.com will carry the schedule of upcoming sessions — the city, the date, and where to show up. That site is in development.

If you want training brought to your city, or you run an organization that can host a session, call and say so. Locations are chosen by where the demand is loudest.