Alamo Colleges, Project Quest benefit from job-training funds

Bizjournals.com
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs has awarded $6.37 million in equipment and job-training grants to nonprofit organizations and schools to help train more ...

City, state to provide $1 million for job training

Bizjournals.com
The state of Wisconsin and the city of Milwaukee will provide a total of $1 million for on-the-job training for at least 80 unemployed people in Milwaukee ...

Caltrans lands $2.7M for job training

Bizjournals.com
The California Department of Transportation has been awarded $2.7 million in stimulus job training grants, the Sacramento-based transportation agency ...

Jobs training group wins grant funding

Columbia Missourian
The Central Missouri Workforce Investment Board awarded the money, which will pay for a study of the area's job training needs. ...

DOL grant to aid laid-off manufacturing workers in Wisconsin

Reliable Plant Magazine
Awarded to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, this grant will be operated by the Fox Valley Workforce Development Board; the Milwaukee Area ...

Upcoming Webinar: Matching Skills to Business Needs

Nation's Cities Weekly
It will focus on aligning city workforce development and economic development efforts. In the global economy, a skilled labor force is becoming a key to ...

County's mobile career center to help ex-convicts

Baltimore Sun
A federal grant helped the county's Office of Workforce Development purchase and outfit the 29-foot-long Ford truck with six computer stations, ...

US Labor secretary traveling to Connecticut

Hartford Courant
US Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will be in Connecticut to talk about summer youth employment programs and honor the work of a Hartford-area jobs training and ...

Rural communities get nearly $5 million for broadband development

Alexandria Echo Press
The project anticipates training as many as 2500 individuals in computer literacy, online education, and workforce development, and plans to distribute 1000 ...

Grants available for workers

Wausau Daily Herald
This grant is a part of more than $300000 recently distributed to Workforce Development Boards and technical colleges across the state as part of Gov. ...

McMahon aims to aid small businesses

SILive.com
The second is the Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act, which would provide $60 million to support Small Business Administration loans for an additional ...

Building together: Workforce Alliance reimbursing companies for training

New Haven Register (subscription)
Normally, the on-the-job training program provides a reimbursement of 50 percent, but under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, ...

Breakfast at Central Westmoreland Career and Technology Center about more than ...

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
About two dozen students prepared the elaborate spread for the Westmoreland-Fayette Workforce Investment Board's annual legislative breakfast, ...

Career programs transforming Treasure Coast high schools

Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription)
... of applied technology, career development and continuing education. ... CEO of Workforce Solutions, the Treasure Coast's workforce development board. ...

Valley to receive $8.2 million for job training

Fresno Business Journal
The Workforce Investment Board of Tulare County announced today that the Central Valley will receive nearly $8.2 million in funding to provide training to ...

Community centers to provide career development and after-school programs

Journal Times
In addition, the city is also working with the Workforce Development Center to provide career development assistance at the community centers, Embry said. ...

850 workers to be hired in Treasure Coast with $16 million in stimulus money

Palm Beach Post
Workforce Solutions, the non-profit organization that helps job seekers find jobs, said it received $16 million through the Florida Back to Work program. ...

Turning lemons into lemonade: entrepreneurship

WKOW-TV.com
Bob Borremans, with the Southwest Wisconsin Workforce Development Board, says, "Dislocations slowed down dramatically.. we are beginning to see some signs ...

Local youth club programs help change lives by countering influences of gangs

Ventura County Star
The Youth Empowerment Program is funded by the Workforce Investment Board of Ventura County. “We have great statistics when it comes to that program,” ...

Fed funds received by local board

So Md News
The Southern Maryland Workforce Investment Board has received almost $240000 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to be spent training unemployed ...

US Department of Labor Announces $8.2 Million Grant to Assist Workers in ...

The Taft Independent
The grant will be operated by the Fresno Workforce Investment Board, Kern/Inyo/Mono Workforce Investment Board, Kings County Job Training Office, ...

US Sen. Harkin: Recovery Act summer Youth Employment Initiative a success

IowaPolitics.com (press release)
WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today applauded the success of the Department of Labor's (DOL) 2009 Recovery Act Summer Youth Employment ...

Teenagers in need of direction can turn to apprenticeships

USA Today
The opportunity came as part of Wisconsin's Youth Apprenticeship Program, founded in 1991 to prepare non-college-bound high school students for jobs after ...

OTC gets $1.1 million state grant for job-training programs

KY3
Training for Tomorrow will help get these programs up and running as quickly as possible – to get Missourians enrolled, trained and back on the job. ...

Central Piedmont Community College gets stimulus cash for job training

Bizjournals.com
Central Piedmont Community College will soon launch nine new classes to train job seekers. The classes are funded by $85000 in federal stimulus money. ...

NDSCS receives $265000 Workforce Enhancement Grant

Wahpeton Daily News
The council consists of the private-sector membership of the North Dakota Workforce Development Council, the state director of the Department of Career ...

Trident Workforce Investment Board supports local manufacturing industry

PRLog.Org (press release)
PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 15, 2010 – Seventeen students celebrated their success after completing the Trident Workforce Investment Board's Manufacturing ...

Workforce board earns national honor

Texarkana Gazette
Workforce Solutions Northeast Texas recently received a National Association of Workforce Boards award for helping the manufacturing industry. ...

Louisiana gets a look at its future

Opelousas Daily World
Now, because Louisiana has decided through legislation to reshape its workforce development infrastructure, we have a way to look ahead that's a big step up ...

SPSCC uses federal funds to start program

TheNewsTribune.com
The Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council is distributing $600000 in stimulus money to community and technical colleges in Thurston, Lewis, Mason, ...

DOT funds eco-park access road

The Daily Advance
Cowan said the Workforce Development Board will be receiving $5.9 million from the government in workforce development funds for training in green ...

New Jobs for Younger Adults

KOMU-TV
COLUMBIA - The Missouri Parks Youth Corps plans to employ about 1000 young workers between the ages of 17 and 24. Park workers say members of the Youth ...

Gov. Nixon unveils youth jobs program at parks

KRCG
Nixon is encouraging Missourians between the ages of 17 and 24 to take part in the 2010 State Parks Youth Corps Program. This innovative summer employment ...

2 Gilbert high schools join jobs workshop

Arizona Republic
Many are offering summer internships. "We're absolutely thrilled with the level of interest this event has generated from both Arizona high schools and ...

Students look at life after high school

Santa Maria Times
The Summer Youth Employment Program of Santa Barbara County helps students get summer jobs or internships that can be in specific areas of interest. ...

On Your Side: Workforce retraining can lead to thousands of available jobs

WRDW-TV
WAYNESBORO -- There are thousands of job listings. But some of those require training. And that's where the Richmond-Burke Job Training Authority comes in. ...

Free computer training for job-seekers

OCRegister (blog)
If you're out of work, Microsoft will give you free computer training through its “Elevate America” program, if you get a voucher available through your ...

BCC enters into agreement to expand 'green job' training options

Desert Dispatch
The online classes will allow students, particularly older adults who may already have a job and care for a family, to get a four-year degree without having ...

Business briefs: Allen honored for volunteer work

Spartanburg Herald Journal
He was appointed to the National Association of Workforce Boards Board of Directors in 2003. Nominations for the award were sent from every region in South ...

Grants provide for green job training

Arkansas Online (subscription)
By Gavin Lesnick LITTLE ROCK — More than $2.5 million in grants will create centers at two state colleges to provide training for green jobs in energy ...

ON-THE-JOB TRAINING

Joliet Herald News
A Grundy County Education Cooperative program -- REACH (Realizing Educational and Career Hopes) -- does more than teach vocational skills in real job ...

Funds to train for 'green' jobs

Northern Virginia Daily
The Shenandoah Valley Workforce Investment Board has received $5 million from the federal economic stimulus package to fund a new program to train workers ...

Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Awards WPI $6.6 Million Grant for Next ...

WPI News
The BETC is planning a 10000-square-foot facility that will provide hands-on biomanufacturing training to support industry workforce development. ...

Grant to help get people higher paying tech jobs

Alvin Sun Advertiser
“Almost everyone knows someone who is unemployed right now,” said Joy Weiner, a former Texas Workforce Solutions staff specialist who is a coordinator for ...

EDC gets grants, adds position

Bloomington Pantagraph
“The purpose of this funding is to improve workforce development efforts in the healthcare sector and to promote collaborative efforts between hospitals, ...

Advantage Valley receives $250000 economic development grant

Cabell Standard
WorkForce West Virginia is a network of work force development services designed to provide West Virginia's citizens and employers the opportunity to ...