Workforce Grants
The NADA Foundation works with the ATAEs to identify and award grants to advance workforce initiatives across the country to help mitigate the shortage of technicians in the automotive industry.
The Challenge
The automotive and truck retail industries continue to face a shortage of service technicians. About 39,000 new service techs graduate from U.S. career technical colleges and training programs each year. Yet the industry needs to replace nearly 76,000 techs each year to keep up with retirements and new job demand. That’s leaves an annual shortfall of about 37,000 trained techs, NADA estimates. The NADA Foundation seeks to promote service technician careers and recruit the next generation of dealership service technicians through access to training and scholarships.
Awardee Spotlight
In June 2026, the Foundation Board of Trustees approved a grant of $10,000 to the North Texas Automobile Dealers Charities to support their Instructor Master Class program.
Apply for a Grant
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The NADA Foundation is a tax-exempt, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization. Donations are tax-deductible as charitable contributions.
