The NJ Incumbent Worker Training Grant funds are competitively awarded to New Jersey employers to provide up to 50% cost reimbursement assistance to train incumbent frontline employees to meet the current and future occupational skill requirements of available high wage, middle-skill and high-skill jobs in New Jersey. Grant funds are intended to achieve measurable outcomes for the employers and the employees trained, “seed" occupational skills training, and support New Jersey businesses in maintaining their footprint in New Jersey and retaining incumbent workers.
Opportunity Grant
Start & End Date of Grant:
March 8, - May 2, 2022
Purpose for which Funds will be Used:
The purpose of the Opportunity Partnership (OPG) training grant is to assist displaced/dislocated workers secure employment by providing occupational training in industry sectors recognized and driven by employer's "in-demand" needs.
Pre-Apprenticeship in Career Education (PACE)
Start & End Date of Grant Program:
Applications due January 28, 2022
Purpose for Which Funds will be Used:
The purpose of the PACE Program is to prepare individuals to enter and succeed in Registered Apprenticeship programs. These pre-apprenticeship programs have a documented partnership with at least one Registered Apprenticeship program sponsor and together, they expand the participant's career pathway opportunities with industry-based training coupled with classroom instruction. The program will drive economic development through skills and educational attainment and create pathways to better-paying careers and advanced credentials.
The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Office of Apprenticeship seeks to encourage the growth of career pathway opportunities for people disconnected from employment, training, and education. Within the workforce development system, pre-apprenticeships serve a critical role for people to acquire career-specific skills, advance work-readiness, and connect them to longer-term career opportunities
GAINS: Growing Apprenticeship in Nontraditional Sectors
Start & End Date of Grant:
Applications Due by January 14, 2022
Purpose for which Funds will be Used:
The main goal of this Notice of Grant Opportunity is to promote equality of opportunity, upward mobility, and economic fairness. Due to the rise of globalization, international trade, advances in information technology, mechanical automation of production processes, and reductions in union membership over the past few decades, American workers have found themselves displaced by new technologies and in competition with overseas labor markets. Advances in technology have increased the use of mechanization in the production process and in professional spaces that are not often attributed to skill-biased technical change. These technological advances have increased demand for more technically advanced, high-skilled positions that require occupational training at the secondary, post-secondary, and adult education levels.
Information on all New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development can be found at:
https://www.nj.gov/labor/research-info/grants.shtml
For information on the above grants contact:
Allen Magid, Business Development Manager
Rowan College South Jersey Gloucester Campus
856-468-5000 x5503