AED Foundation

The AED Foundation enhances the success of AED member companies by encouraging continuous learning, providing educational opportunities for today's employees and improving the quantity and quality of available employees for the future.

Just as a coach values momentum for the spark it gives the team, The AED Foundation wants to capitalize on momentum from new programs that promise dramatic results for our industry.

The development of quality training programs has given momentum to fill the training needs of the members of the Associated Equipment Distributors. They are converting into services that promise to yield a handsome return on investment for the industry in general, and in particular for those who have directly supported the foundation. Examples:

Education programs to support all facets of Management
On-Line University for Equipment Distributors
A Major Boost to Our Industry's Image
Attracting Top-notch Technical Talent

These programs have common characteristics. Each is a new program that is building, growing, serving new needs and providing results that were only a gleam in the foundation's eye five years ago. Further, all reflect the industry education and workforce development objectives in the foundation's mission.

The real heroes behind the momentum created thus far are the investors who have made the workforce development programs possible, and the participants in educational events who fuel the foundation's ongoing delivery of professional training programs. Funds from these sources enable the foundation's board, committees and staff to produce the industry services and initiatives currently in force.

With all this momentum behind us, the foundation asks you-current and potential investors-to keep it moving forward.

Contribution Information

AED is an international trade association representing companies involved in the distribution, rental and support of equipment used in construction, mining, forestry, power generation, agriculture and industrial applications. AED member dealers are unique in that they are each authorized, via contract with an original equipment manufacturer, to inventory, sell and service new machinery in a given geography. More than 90% of AED's factory authorized dealers rent construction equipment as well. The Associated Equipment Distributors strongly adheres to and strongly advocates principles of integrity, ethics and fairness. The AED urges its members to conduct their businesses ethically and compatibly with the free enterprise system and the laws which govern it. Contractors can locate factory authorized construction equipment dealers at the MachineMart® web site.