Join the Grassroots Movement!
Uplifting Our Underserved Communities One Family At A Time
“Tools for Learning, Skills for Living”
Our Impact
With over 23 years of leadership, practical ‘boots-on-the-ground’ experience, and grassroots achievements in workforce development in the most challenged Texas communities, we’ve trained over 5,000 people and provided successful job placement assistance to over 70% with an 80% retention rate for our graduate hires.
23+
Years of Leadership
5,000+
Trained Candidates
70%
Job Placement
80%
Retention Rate
3+
Career Tracks
7+
Locations Worldwide
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Our Mission
To solve the most pressing education, and career/jobs development issues in our most challenged and underserved communities. Through our Public-Private Partnerships with our team of best practice organizations, we seek to provide Career, Technical, and Adult Education learning and personal enrichment, life skills, and relevant job skills and placement opportunities that lead to cognitive change, personal resilience, job success, and improved quality of life for our most vulnerable families in Texas.
Our Purpose
To provide waypoints at every step of the journey for people with barriers to employment, and those seeking upward mobility to ultimately obtain meaningful, high-income jobs that lead to fulfilling careers. These key turns, guideposts, and symbiotic support systems would equip learners with the confidence, signals, and tools to inspire others continuously through their education, dreaming, and development. With a laser-like focus we have begun the work to cultivate and fuse the local, national, and international resources and intelligence required to develop and implement a new best practice for sustainable community upliftment.
We would like you to join in our collaborative journey.
Contact Us
Digital Workforce Academy
2209 Rosewood Ave #204
Austin, TX 78702
P: 409-982-0522
info @ digitalworkforceacademy.org
Fax: 409-982-0523
Where we started
Since 1998, our core mission has been to provide vocational and life skills training and job placement for unemployed and underemployed individuals living in the underserved communities. We have worked with technology, industrial EPC contractors and maintenance contractors, securing jobs including: pipefitter helper, electrical helper, ironworker helper, carpenter helper, boilermaker helper, insulators, scaffold builders, and others.
1998
In 1998, we started our first program in East Austin in the technology industries with Oracle, Microsoft, Lucent and Cisco.
2007
In 2007, Melvin White gathers a team with a mission to uplift local underserved communities by providing Pre-Apprenticeship training to fill Industry local commitments. We work with our partners to customize training in their industry to meet their particular labor force needs.
2024
We receive grants to bring our systems and methodology to underserved communities world-wide and help them also establish strategic partnerships locally.
Our Success Stories
Energy Transfer Donates $75k to Golden Triangle Empowerment Center
Golden Triangle Empowerment Center (GTEC), which provides job training and placement services for overlooked and underserved communities in the Port Arthur area, today received a $75,000 donation from Energy Transfer. The donation from the Dallas-based midstream...
Golden Triangle Empowerment Center Receives ExxonMobil Grant
When companies hire local, it helps entire communities to prosper. Thank you @ExxonMobil Beaumont for supporting our agency’s mission to connect individuals in the Charlton-Pollard and South Park communities to workforce training programs that will strengthen their...
Grow With Google
Digital skills training for people impacted by the justice system In June 2022, Grow with Google launched a $4 million fund for nonprofits to bring lessons on digital skills to justice-impacted individuals. Hundreds of organizations from across the country submitted...