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CLC, Inc. Capital Campaign for a New Training Center

History and Mission

CLC, Inc., provides job seekers with model education, training and employment services that lead to career progressive jobs. CLC, Inc., provides employers with qualified workers to meet their workforce needs.

CLC, Inc., operates through partnerships with industry, business, government, community organizations and schools. It provides model educational training and employment services that lead to better jobs and careers for Texans who need and want them most.

Since 2000, CLC, Inc., has trained more than 2,000 workers for high skill, high wage jobs in aircraft assembly, composite bonding. CLC, Inc., graduates work for such companies as Lockheed Martin, Bell Helicopter and Vought Aircraft Industries.

A New Training Center

The International Association of Machinists contributed a building valued at $500,000 to CLC, Inc.

CLC, Inc., will renovate the building into an education and training center.

The new building is strategically located across from the main gate of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company in Fort Worth, Texas.

With this new training center, CLC, Inc., will increase its outreach exponentially and prepare far more job seekers for growing industries in North Central Texas.

CLC, Inc. Board of Directors

  • Pat Lane, Chairman, CLC, Inc.
  • Steve Braswell, Bell Helicopter/TEXTRON
  • Ed Foster, Mansfield Independent School District
  • Reverend O.G. Hill, First Pilgrim Valley Baptist Church
  • Gary Livingston, United Automobile Workers
  • Carlos Moore, Madison Printing Company
  • Rod Tanner, Tanner & Associates, P.C.
  • Angela Traiforos, CLC, Inc.
  • Becky Turner, Office & Professional Employees International Union
  • Troy Vaughn, Tarrant County College
  • Billy White, Retired, Birdville Independent School District
  • Steve Williams, Retired, Gulf Coast Trade Center
  • Jim Wright, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Kendall Hill, Kendall Hill Attorney at Law
  • B.R Day, Retired Lockheed Martin

Capital Campaign Committee Members

  • Rod Tanner, Tanner & Associates, P.C. (Chairman)
  • Becky Turner, Office & Professional Employees International Union (Vice-Chair)
  • Paul Black, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
  • Kathy Ferrell, CLC, Inc.
  • Pat Lane, CLC, Inc.
  • J.W. Reed, CLC, Inc.
  • Tim Smith, International Associations of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
  • Angela Traiforos, CLC, Inc.
  • Steve Williams, Retired, Gulf Coast Trade Center
  • Troy Vaughn, Tarrant County College

We are very proud of our CLC, Inc. partners as follows:



International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 776
Lockheed Martin
UAW Local #218
Bell Helicopter TEXTRON
UAW Local #848
Vought Aircraft Industries
Hampson Aerospace
Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center
University of Texas, Arlington
Manufacturing Skills Standards Council
Workforce Solutions Board for Tarrant County
North Central Texas Workforce Board
National Institute Metal Working Skills
Worksource for Dallas County Tarrant County College



Contributions to CLC, Inc. are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.
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