Made Right Here has developed and is implementing the Maker Professional Apprenticeship Program for the unemployed, dislocated and underemployed. We train individuals at a local maker space with the knowledge and skills to operate a range of digital tools to become valuable makers/employees in the 21st century workplace. We offer trainees a pathway to becoming a Maker Professional, which is a U.S. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship under the New National Standards. The Maker Professional apprenticeship builds organically on the emergent occupational community of makers. The Maker Movement celebrates learning-by-doing, teamwork and mutual support among community members, and individual and collective project-based problem solving. The Maker Professional Apprenticeship provides a formal support structure that aims to build on and deepen organic learning within the Maker Movement. It also credentials knowledge to help match startups and advanced manufacturers with individuals. But the apprenticeship aims not to rigidify or compartmentalize learning in ways that undermine either the passion of Maker Professionals or the breadth of knowledge that best serves employers. We believe that innovation and making can be revolutionized through increased accessibility to fabrication tools. By putting these tools into the hands of people who typically haven’t had access and doing so in a collaborative maker space emphasizing project-based learning, this project spurs innovation, local manufacturing and economic development.