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ace of northeast florida DONORS & SPONSORS

The ACE Mentor Program is a nonprofit organization that helps prepare high school students for careers in design and construction through mentoring by industry professionals. Our mission is to engage, excite and enlighten high school students to pursue careers in architecture, engineering, and construction through mentoring and to support their continued advancement in the industry.

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ace of northeast florida DONORS & SPONSORS

The ACE Mentor Program is a not-for-profit organization that helps prepare high school students for careers in design and construction through mentoring by industry professionals. Our mission is to engage, excite and enlighten high school students to pursue careers in architecture, engineering, and construction through mentoring and to support their continued advancement in the industry.

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ACE NEFL

Help students discover where they belong in the AEC industry. Local sponsors help ACE Northeast Florida offer hands-on learning, career experiences, and scholarships to high school students across Baker, Clay, Duval, and St. Johns counties. Partner with us through a sponsorship, donation, or employee involvement.

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fundraising

During the 2025-2026 program, our ACE Affiliate achieved 111% of its fundraising goal, raising funds for scholarships and programming through corporate and personal donations, fundraising events and raffles, grants and online donation campaigns.

grants

ACE NEFL is proud to be a grant recipient from the following organizations. We will use these funds to provide mentoring, scholarship and college/trade opportunities for our students.

• ACE Mentor Program of America / Black & Decker Makers Grant

• A.L. Lewis Fund through Community Foundation of Northeast Florida

• Clay Electric Foundation Operation Round Up

• Community Foundation of Northeast Florida

• Brasfield & Gorrie Employee Match through Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham

• Publix Charities

• The Players Championship Red Coats’ Community Grant

• Reinhold Foundation Celebrate Clay Awards

events

The following events contributed to our fundraising goals. The events were supported by our corporate sponsors, industry partners, school champions, mentors, parents and students.

• Clay Shoot Fundraiser and Raffle

• Brasfield & Gorrie | Cowford Invitational Golf Tournament and Impact

• Week Pickleball Tournament

• Kickoff Event and College Tour

• Trades Day

• Build-a-Bench Day

• Construction Site and Office Visits

• Year-End Event and Raffle

clay shoot fundraiser

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ACE Northeast Florida hosted the 5th Annual Sporting Clay Fundraiser on September 25, 2025, raising almost $73,550 for Northeast Florida students. The event and team sponsors of this event held at Jacksonville Clay Target Sports included:

• A.A. Pittman & Sons Concrete Co.

• Abercrombie, Inc.

• ADS StormTech

• Allstate Steele

• Auld & White Constructors

• Batson-Cook

• Brasfield & Gorrie

• Building Envelope Consulting Group

• Campbell Plumbing

• CCS

• Cerris Construction

• Charles Perry Partners, Inc.

• Crabtree Construction

• DANIS

• Fabco Metal Products

• FASTSIGNS®

• Ferber Sheet Metal Works

• Foresight Construction Group

• Gardner

• Gilbane Building Co.

• H. Stephen Jones & Associates, Inc.

• The Haskell Company

• Hollandsworth Construction

• IMC Electrical

• Kirbyco Builders

• Lockton

• LS3P

• Meadows & Ohly

• Meyer Najem Construction, LLC

• Miller Electric Company

• Owen Electric

• PCL Construction

• Petticoat-Schmitt

• Robins & Morton

• Ruppert Landscape

• Smith Brothers

• Spectra Contract Flooring

• Stellar Group, Inc.

• Thomas May Construction

• Touchton Plumbing

• W.W. Gay Mechanical Contractor, Inc.

• Wilson Electric

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brasfield & gorrie

ACE Mentor Program of Northeast Florida is honored to be Brasfield & Gorrie’s primary fundraising beneficiary for 2024-2026. During the 2025 giving season, Brasfield & Gorrie (B&G) demonstrated its extraordinary commitment to our mission through Impact Week, a community Pickleball Tournament and an employee matching campaign with the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. Together, these efforts generated critical support to expand opportunities for students exploring careers in architecture, construction and engineering.

The partnership reached another milestone when Brasfield & Gorrie’s Annual Cowford Invitational Golf Tournament generated an extraordinary $125,000 contribution to support our mission. This investment provides critical resources to strengthen and expand our programming, creating greater opportunities for Northeast Florida students to explore careers in architecture, construction and engineering.

Beyond financial support, Brasfield & Gorrie’s Jacksonville team demonstrates an exceptional commitment to ACE through volunteerism and leadership. Employees serve as mentors across multiple program locations, lead on our Board and committees, and dedicate countless hours to events and student experiences. Their partnership exemplifies how industry engagement can shape the future workforce and inspire the next generation of leaders.

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5th annual trades day

On February 5, 2026, ACE hosted the 5th Annual Trades Day at Ring Power in St. Augustine. Students spent the day engaging with the following local companies and apprenticeship programs while exploring careers across the trades industry. Through hands-on demonstrations and conversations with industry professionals, the event offered an incredible opportunity for students to experience the world of trades and better understand the career pathways available to them.

• ABC First Coast

• Abercrombie, Inc.

• ACME

• Auld & White Constructors

• Barber & Associate, Inc.

• Brasfield & Gorrie

• Construction Ready

• Electrical Training Alliance (NJATC)

• EMCOR

• Haskell

• Miller Electric Company

• NEFBA

• NUCA

• Owen Electric

• Petticoat-Schmitt

• Pye Barker Fire Sprinkler

• Ring Power

• SMART Local 435

• Stellar Group, Inc.

• Superior Construction

• T Conlan Roofing

• Trinity Metal

• Tulsa Welding School Jacksonville

• UA Local 234 / JATT

• W.W. Gay Mechanical Contractor, Inc.

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Excavators and visitors at a Trades Day event