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Grants
California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
Requests for applications are now available for economic and workforce development grants at: http://www.cccco.edu/divisions/esed/econdev/2006-07.htm
- Industry Driven Regional Collaboratives - These grants provide funds to local community colleges for flexible, short-term, “design it yourself” local projects and to meet regional business needs, particularly in high growth, emerging technology industries.
- Industry Driven Regional Collaboratives in Economically Distressed Areas - In order to qualify for this grant, the applicant college must have within its boundaries at least one of the economically distressed areas defined in the RFA.
- Job Development Incentive Training Fund - It is the intent of the Legislature that this program provide training on a no-cost or low-cost basis to participating employers who create employment opportunities at an acceptable wage level for the attainment of self-sufficiency or a “living wage” by both welfare recipients and the “working poor.”
To find out if new
grants from the
Chancellor’s Office are
becoming available,
visit
http://www.cccco.edu/grants/grants.htm and
http://www.cccco.edu/grants/competitive_grants.htm
US Department of Labor
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has announced the availability of approximately $10 million in grant funds for new and innovative approaches to meeting the workforce challenges of the advanced manufacturing industry under the President's High Growth Job Training Initiative (http://www.doleta.gov/BRG/JobTrainInitiative/).
Regional mini-grants
Mini-grant awards
- 2003/2004 (http://www.rcc.edu/academicPrograms/ccc/2003-2004MiniGrants.htm)
- 2004/2005 (http://www.rcc.edu/academicPrograms/ccc/200405MiniGrants.htm)
- 2005/2006 ("2005/2006" Proposals)
Reports 2005/2006
- College of the Desert (COD Resource Library Final Report / COD Resource Library VTEA Data Summary Form)
- San Bernardino Community College District (SBCCD Marketing Report)
Products and services developed in 2005/2006:
- Resource library at COD. Videos available to community college contract education practitioners, vocational education personnel and programs that support economic and workforce development at: http://www.codtrainingcenter.com/videolibrary.html
- CIS training needs survey 2005
Other Workforce Development Grants
Links to a variety of grant funding opportunities are available at http://www.edd.ca.gov/wiarep/wiagrantfund.htm