The Guild — sponsorship
Fund the pipeline. Solve your own shortage.
Every skilled trade company in America is fighting the same labor shortage. The Guild is GetCrew’s answer. Most one-truck tradesmen never hire anyone — not because helpers cost too much, but because becoming an employer means workers’ comp, payroll, and liability they’ve spent years avoiding. The fund pays half an apprentice’s wage; we handle the rest of it. A sponsorship doesn’t rent someone labour for a season — it turns a one-man operation into a shop that can hire, and hire again. Every hour the apprentice works is logged and theirs to carry. That isn’t a donation. It’s workforce infrastructure, built by the companies that need the workforce.
How the Guild actually works
A licensed tradesperson takes on an apprentice at half their normal wage.
The Guild fund covers the other half — that’s what a sponsorship pays into. GetCrew never holds that money: it sits with a custodian, and it pays apprentice wages and nothing else. Not our salaries, not our costs, not a platform expense with a programme label on it. There is no path from your contribution to our operating account, and there never will be.
The apprentice earns their full wage, every time, and GetCrew takes zero fee on any of it.
Why a company sponsors this, not just a philanthropist
A licensed electrician doing high-voltage or data-center work can clear $250K a year — the ceiling is real, the supply isn’t. If your business depends on skilled trades to build or run anything — a factory, a fleet of data centers, a national footprint — the Guild is a direct investment in the exact pipeline your own hiring depends on. It’s not goodwill spend. It’s the same logic as funding a supplier.
Sponsorships are a conversation, not a checkout
A commitment at this level gets structured directly with GetCrew — recognition, reporting on exactly which apprentices it’s funding, and how it fits your own hiring pipeline. Reach out and we’ll set up time to talk.
drew@getcrewapp.com(212) 433-3893