Wednesday, June 30, 2010

McCormick Foundation Grants Nearly $1 Million for Citywide Workforce Development Programs through Chicago Tribune Charities

The McCormick Foundation has announced $800,000 in funding through Chicago Tribune Charities, a McCormick Foundation fund, that will help 24 local agencies provide a broad range of employment and training services to help individuals succeed in the workplace. Through partnerships with media outlets, such as the Chicago Tribune, the McCormick Foundation continues Robert R. McCormick's legacy of service by encouraging local giving, inspiring civic involvement and addressing human needs.

West Kittanning boutique helps workers shine again

Leader Times
Diaz has gone to work in the store through the Tri-County Workforce Investment Board's work-experience program that operates the retail clothing store, ...

San Diego Region Awarded $4 Million Workforce Development Grant to Support ...

PR Newswire (press release)
... and the San Diego Workforce Partnership, captured the grant through the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency's "Green Innovation Challenge. ...

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Tarrytown House Estate Honored by Westchester-Putnam Workforce Board

PRLog.Org (press release)
For the past 10 years, the Workforce Investment Board received government funding to support summer employment, including $1.6 million received in 2009 to ...

A visit to the real world

Cullman Times Online
The Cullman Area Workforce Solutions (CAWS) program is designed to place educators out into local industry during the summer so that we will have a better ...

National Fund for Workforce Solutions Documenting Innovation in Getting ...

PR-USA.net (press release)
The National Fund for Workforce Solutions, involving more than 250 funders nationwide, is proving that innovative, local approaches to preparing job seekers ...

Community Foundation of Greater Flint grants $30000 to Genesee Chamber ...

The Saginaw News - MLive.com
Summer Youth Initiative, in its 15th year, helps Genesee County teens learn job skills and helps place them in summer jobs. This year, about 500 teens will ...

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

WIB working on plan to avert layoffs

‘At-risk’ industries identified, targeted for work force training
A consulting firm has identified the five most at-risk “industry clusters” in the region as well as work force training programs available to them in an effort to help avert layoffs.
That information will be the basis of a layoff diversion strategy developed soon that will help the West Piedmont Workforce Investment Board more strategically use about $175,000 in available local funds and to leverage state funds, according to Kim Adkins, executive director of WPWIB.

Indian River County's Best Places To Work program kicks off June 30

TCPalm
Workforce Solutions, in partnership with the Indian River Chamber of Commerce, Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce and Treasure Coast HR Association, ...

Secretary Gassman Announces Industry Partnership Grant to Help Northwest ...

BusinessNorth.com
The Northwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board currently has 80 Opportunity Grant recipients. Secretary Gassman also was joined at the event by ...

Missouri Summer Jobs Program Launched

Kansas City infoZine
The Governor's Next-Generation Jobs Team, a summer youth employment program from last year, put more than 7000 Missouri youth to work with high-tech, ...

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Effect of WIRED grants to last for years, staff say

Southeast Missourian
Staff at the Workforce Investment Board of Southeast Missouri outlined the impact of the Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development Initiative, ...

National Fund for Workforce Solutions Documenting Innovation in Getting ...

PR Newswire (press release)
BOSTON, June 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Fund for Workforce Solutions, involving more than 250 funders nationwide, is proving that innovative ...

Workforce awards recognize innovation, commitment

Wyoming Business Report
By Wyoma Groenenberg CASPER — Awards were presented June 17 during the Governor's 2010 Summit on Workforce Solutions to four businesses and an individual ...

Monday, June 21, 2010

A better NASA "transition" center: The Top 5 jobs for rocket scientists on the

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CultureMap
Three miles from Johnson Space Center, Workforce Solutions recently opened the Aerospace Transition Center to help the thousands of aerospace workers faced ...

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Help for a Fragile Economy

Huffington Post (blog)
The Senate is debating legislation (HR 4213) to restore unemployment benefits and health care for the unemployed, fund youth jobs, and prevent severe cuts ...

DeLauro, Murphy, Himes Announce $500,000 Grant to Provide Green Job Training for Veterans

Washington, DC – Representatives Rosa L. DeLauro (CT-03), Chris Murphy (CT-05), and Jim Himes (CT-04) announced today that The Workplace, Inc., Southwestern Connecticut's Regional Workforce Development Board, will be receiving a grant ...

Monday, June 14, 2010

DOL announces grant exceeding $19 million to assist workers in ...

By EthiopianReview.com | MT
Awarded to the California Employment Development Department, this grant will be operated by the Alameda County Workforce Investment Board, the Contra Costa County Workforce Development Board, the San Joaquin County Employment and ...

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Mikulski, Cardin Applaud $1 Million to Baltimore City Community College

BigNews.biz (press release)
“BCCC's weatherization job training center will help people who need a job and can't find one. And it will help people who want to keep a job or move up in ...

Utah to receive weatherization stimulus money

Salt Lake Tribune
The award for a new weatherization training center in Clearfield is one of 34 projects in 27 states. The projects are intended to provide job training for ...

Kerry: Massachusetts Receives $1.7 Million More For Weatherization

BigNews.biz (press release)
The funding will be used to provide green job training for local workers in energy efficiency retrofitting and weatherization services. ...

Industry sector projects address workforce needs

Napa Valley Register
The Napa County Workforce Investment Board has embarked on a series of industry sector projects in order to better understand the needs of local employers ...

WorkNet Pinellas to receive $1.7M for weatherization training

Bizjournals.com
The funding is designed to provide green job training while expanding the use of energy efficiency in businesses and homes.

YCCD Awarded $500000 in America Recovery and Reinvestment Act

News Release
... will help stimulate the local economy, grow our workforce and provide the North Central ...

Tlingit-Haida gets nearly $1 million in stimulus money

Juneau Empire
The funds will be used to expand weatherization services for low-income households in Southeast Alaska by providing weatherization-related job training, ...

Colorado gets $963K from stimulus for weatherization job-training

Bizjournals.com
The Colorado Governor's Energy Office is receiving $963000 in federal stimulus funds to expand weatherization training programs and establish a new training ...

Program Aims To Place 1500 Youth In Summer Jobs

LBPOST.com
It's part of the Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network's Summer Youth Employment Training Program, and uses federal stimulus funds from the American ...

ACC to receive $400000 job training grant

News 8 Austin
The Texas Workforce Commission will present Austin Community College with a nearly $400000 check for a job training grant next week. ...

Leaders celebrate results of federal WIRED grant

Greensboro News & Record
By Donald W. Patterson GREENSBORO — A $15 million federal work force development grant ends June 30, and local leaders patted themselves on the back ...

City of Raleigh Provides Free Green Job Training to Construction Professionals

BuildingOnline
RALEIGH, NC -- The City of Raleigh, Office of Sustainability has awarded CleanEdison a $45000 contract to provide green job training to local construction ...

NY Rep. Weiner Announces Passage of Summer Jobs Act

The Epoch Times
The jobs will be provided through the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) “But the job is only half done,” said Fidler, as the act needs to be approved ...

Pima County program helps teens find summer jobs

KVOA Tucson News
TUCSON - Hundreds of Pima County teens started jobs Tuesday thanks to Pima County's Summer Youth Employment Program. On Monday, the youth took classes to ...

BCC preps for role in reshaping work force

Florida Today
Both programs -- the workforce development initiative and the online program -- will officially launch in their restructured form this fall. ...

Piedmont Triad Partnership Hosts Capstone Conference to Showcase

dBusinessNews Triad (press release)
The $15 million grant promoted regional action and was geared toward aligning workforce development and economic development systems and engaging leadership ...

Veteran Hiring Initiative Earns "Finalist" Recognition for Volt Workforce ...

MarketWatch (press release)
Volt Workforce Solutions President Tom Daley commented, "Many of our veterans face obstacles in connecting with hiring managers due to an inability to ...

Iowa Workforce Development Receives $4.8 Million Grant to Implement Youth ...

Iowa Workforce Development
DES MOINES – Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) received a $4.8 million grant from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to ...

Displaced NASA workers get $15 million from Labor

The Hill (blog)
The grant awarded to the Brevard Workforce Development Board will be used for career guidance, job training and continuing education for employees of ...

PATH operators use simulator to avoid on the job training

NorthJersey.com
BY TOM DAVIS PATH drivers can now train without having to ride the rails and, in essence, learn on the job. The Port Authority has started using a realistic ...

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

CFO to match funds raised by OTC for Transport Training Institute

News-Leader.com
The OTC Foundation will use the challenge grant funds for the Center for Workforce Development, Transport Training Institute, according to a news release. ...

Barbour Expands STEPS Program

WTOK
Summer STEPS begins in June funding jobs for youth ages 18-24. Wages will be 100 percent subsidized for youth working 32 to 40 hours per week and earning $8 ...

Peninsula program awards $20000 in scholarships to youths

San Jose Mercury News
Jobs for Youth, a counseling, training and placement resource for county youths between the ages of 14 and 21, celebrated last week its fourth year of ...

Teens Employed Thanks to Atlanta Youth Program

MyFox Atlanta
By TACOMA PERRY/MYFOXATLANTA STAFF/myfoxatlanta ATLANTA - Hundreds of Atlanta teens will have jobs this summer thanks to state and local governments. ...

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Workforce Connection to offer Microsoft technology training vouchers

Chiefland Citizen
Workforce Connection, Workforce Florida Inc., the Agency for Workforce Innovation and Microsoft are working together to provide free technology training to ...

Mason City Workforce Center Awarded Veteran Program Incentive Funds

Iowa Workforce Development
MASON CITY – Iowa Workforce Development announced the 2010 recipients of the Veterans Services Incentive Funds during the veterans' conference. ...

Governor Doyle Announces $1.75 Million Grant to Assist Over 1200 ...

By The Racine News Team
Services are being coordinated by the Department of Workforce Development and provided through the Bay Area Workforce Development Board. The effort also will involve the AFL-CIO Labor Education and Training Center in providing services. ...

Job Corps grads encouraged to give back

Nashoba Publishing
Job Corps is the largest residential and educational workforce training program in the country for economically disadvantaged youth, ages 16 through 24. ...

Statement of US Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on need to fund Summer Youth ...

PR Newswire (press release)
For many of these young people, summer jobs also mean an essential source of funds to purchase text books or help their parents cover food expenses and ...

Microsoft partners with state on job training

OregonLive.com
By Mike Rogoway, The Oregonian Microsoft will provide nearly 17000 training vouchers to Oregon to help unemployed people learn the company's software, ...

Future job training institute in Altavista receives economic stimulus money

WSLS.com
Vocational and skills training is one of the most important investments we can make in our region's competitive advantage,“ said Rep. ...