Initiatives

Policy & Advocacy

All of Kentucky’s manufacturing community receives the benefits of KAM’s ongoing advocacy efforts to protect and create a manufacturing-friendly environment in the Commonwealth whether they are currently KAM members or not.  KAM strives every day to advocate for the development of public policies that effectively remove the economic uncertainty from the following focus areas and thereby create an environment for business growth and prosperity in the Commonwealth:

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Education & Workforce Development

Career Pathways:  A Critical Component to Making a Successful Transition to Advanced Manufacturing

We live in a highly competitive world and to increase our opportunities for economic success in the global marketplace, we must make dramatic improvements to our education and workforce development systems.  The key to a winning strategy and possibly even our economic survival-for both the public and private sectors-especially our manufacturing community, is the development of “smart people.” 

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Sponsorship

The Kentucky Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has created a multifaceted sponsorship program to benefit your organization and optimize the investment of your human and financial resources to have KAM Your Way!

KAM has found that current and prospective sponsors, for the most part, like and want to focus on four main value proposition areas through their sponsorship with KAM: Advocacy (public policy development); Marketing (“the touch”), to stimulate new business opportunities; Events (Manufacturer/Employee of the Year Awards, Manufacturing Summit, etc.); and Publications (Annual Wage and Benefit Survey, the Blue Book, etc.).  It will be worth your while to check out KAM’s sponsorship program and discover how it will help your organization meet and exceed its short- and long-term goals.

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