Backing the People Who Build America’s Energy Infrastructure
We help pipeline and skilled-trades workers get started, keep moving forward, and stand back up when life hits hard.
An officially recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization | EIN: 42-3599096
Opportunity built around work ethic, dignity, and the skilled trades.
The Pipeline Life Foundation strengthens the pipeline and skilled-trades workforce by helping new workers enter the trades, supporting training and scholarships, and assisting workers and families facing serious hardship.
We are not built around the idea that pipeline workers need charity. We are built around opportunity—removing legitimate barriers, investing in people willing to work, and helping experienced hands pass their knowledge to the next generation.
Programs built for the people behind the work.
Our programs focus on practical support, workforce strength, and opportunity across pipeline and related skilled trades.
Send a Hand to the ROW
First-year worker support for approved boots, PPE, tools, welding gear, training, travel, lodging, and other legitimate startup needs.
Explore the Campaign →Scholarships & Workforce Development
Support for welding, equipment operation, apprenticeships, technical education, certifications, competitions, and related career pathways.
Ask About Scholarships →Emergency & Hardship Assistance
Potential assistance for qualifying pipeline workers and families facing serious, unexpected hardship, subject to eligibility and available funding.
Contact the Foundation →Send a Hand to the ROW
Help give the next generation a way onto the ROW. The campaign backs qualified new workers facing a verified startup barrier.
From a real need to a real opportunity.
A Need Is Identified
A worker applies or is nominated with information about the job, training opportunity, and specific barrier.
The Request Is Reviewed
The Foundation evaluates eligibility, verifies the need, and considers available funding and program guidelines.
Approved Support Is Provided
When possible, the Foundation purchases approved items or pays the appropriate vendor, school, or provider directly.
The industry showing up for its own.
The Pipeliners Tour brings crews, contractors, suppliers, families, and pipeline communities together through real conversations, live demonstrations, skills challenges, and regional events.
Proceeds from Pipeliners Tour events benefit The Pipeline Life Foundation.
Visit the Pipeliners TourThe Tour gives the pipeline community a visible, hands-on way to support scholarships, workforce programs, and first-year workers.
Fund something specific. Build something that lasts.
Companies can support a measurable workforce need rather than making a general contribution without a clear outcome.
Partnerships may support first-year workers, named scholarships, tools, PPE, boots, training, travel, workforce development, employee giving, or multi-year programs.
Become a Foundation Partner- Sponsor one or more first-year workers
- Establish a named scholarship
- Fund boots, tools, PPE, or training
- Donate products or equipment
- Create an employee matching campaign
- Build a multi-year workforce initiative
Give a hand to someone ready to work.
Your contribution can help remove a real barrier standing between a good hand and a skilled-trades career.
The Pipeline Life Foundation is an officially recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN: 42-3599096. Charitable contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. No goods or services will be provided in exchange for a charitable contribution unless otherwise stated.
There Is More Than One Way to Give a Hand
Donate, nominate a worker, contribute products or equipment, fund a scholarship, or help build a workforce program that can serve the trades year after year.
Built by the Brotherhood. Backing the Next Generation.