Music City Construction Careers creates pathways to middle-class building trades jobs for Nashville residents, with an emphasis on serving women, communities of color, transitioning veterans, and other populations historically underserved by workforce development programs.
Our Goals
- Provide pathways for low-income Nashvillians to enter rewarding, highskilled, and family-sustaining careers, while creating a pipeline of new talent to meet the booming construction industry’s labor demands
- Significantly increase the participation of underrepresented populations (including women, people of color, veterans, individuals with disabilities) in apprenticeship programs and construction crafts in Nashville
- Advocate for the critical role that apprenticeships programs can play in developing a skilled workforce and addressing inequality
Our Vision
Nashville’s construction industry is booming, but the current workforce development pipeline is broken. As a city, we’re missing a golden opportunity to create avenues to middle-class jobs for a generation of Nashvillians and to address the city’s growing racial and economic inequality.
To address these urgent problems, Music City Construction Careers (MC3) convenes trade unions, business sponsors, and community groups to provide apprentice readiness programming and wraparound services including mentorship, career counseling, and case management. By connecting working people to middle-class job training and opportunity, we aim to strengthen families, strengthen neighborhoods, and create a more equitable city for all.
Partners
MC3 works to bring together labor unions, construction contractors, local government agencies and the non-profit workforce development communities in a unique partnership. The partnership model allows targeted outreach and recruitment, consultation on curriculum design and guaranteed placement in union apprenticeships.
Our community partners include: Stand Up Nashville, Nashville Building Trades Council, Metro Nashville Government, Central Labor Council of Mid TN, Metro Development & Housing Agency.
Contact Info
Email: info@musiccitymc3.org
Phone: (615) 208-4106
Mailing Address:
Music City Construction Careers
P.O. Box 290153
Nashville TN, 37229-0153
Statement of Non-Discrimination
Music City Construction Careers, Inc. admits students of any race, gender, national and ethnic origin, sexual orientation, and disability status to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, national and ethnic origin, sexual orientation, and disability status in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.