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Skills4Jersey Training Grants (New Jersey)

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    Funder Type

    State Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    Department of Labor and Workforce Development

    Summary

    Skills4Jersey training grant funds are available to New Jersey employers to upgrade the skills of their current employees and/or train new employees, for purposes of retaining highly skilled and high wage jobs in New Jersey. Priority will be given to employers who have been adversely affected by Hurricane Sandy. Employers must provide specific details outlining how these training funds will be utilized to re-establish and/or strengthen their business in the application.

    New Jersey has identified the following industry clusters as targeted sectors for FY15:

    1. Advanced Manufacturing; 
    2. Financial Services; 
    3. Health Care; 
    4. Life Sciences (Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Medical Devices); 
    5. Recovery New Jersey; 
    6. Retail, Hospitality and Tourism; 
    7. Technology and Entrepreneurship; and 
    8. Transportation, Logistics and Distribution.

    Applicants must propose training for persons employed at any New Jersey business and ascertain the employer’s commitment to continue to employ all of the individuals that have successfully completed the training program for a period of at least six months. Failure to adhere to this requirement may result in the employer having to refund grant dollars allocated to train these workers.

    Types of trainings eligible for Skills4Jersey training grants include:

    1. Classroom Training: (a)Training provided to a group of trainees in a classroom setting conducted by a qualified instructor from an external third party training provider.
    2. On-the-Job Training: (a) Hands-on instruction or skill acquisition provided under the constant and direct guidance of a qualified trainer in the direct production of a good or service; (b) Training performed by internal qualified company training instructors;
    3. Electronic Delivery Training falls into three categories: (a) Computer-Based Training is training delivered through a computer program at a pace set by the trainee. There is no requirement for delivery by a live trainer and training does not have to be interactive; (b) Video Conference is training that is live, interactive instruction provided by a trainer through a video communications session; (c) E-Learning is instruction delivered by a live trainer through a web-based system, conducted in a virtual environment utilizing web meeting/webinar.
     

    History of Funding

    None is available.

    Additional Information

    All third party training providers utilized as part of a grant must be listed as approved on the state’s Eligible Training Provider List (ETPL) including training services subcontracted by an applicant’s third party training provider. Click on the following link, www.njtopps.org, to access the State of New Jersey’s ETPL approved training providers.

    All training courses and trainees are subject to the Department’s review and approval. Each employer that receives a grant must contribute a minimum of 50 percent of the total cost of the training services received. Any wages paid to employees during the training period may be utilized to fulfill this requirement. All applicable forms will be provided to the applicant by the assigned Business Representative (BR).

    Contacts

    New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

    New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
    Office of Workforce Grant and Program Management
    Attention: Customized Training Unit
    1 John Fitch Plaza – 7th Floor
    P.O. Box 915
    Trenton, NJ 08625-915
    http://jobs4jersey.com/jobs4jersey/toolkit/ngo/skills4jerseyngo_announcement.html
    http://jobs4jersey.com/jobs4jersey/documents/NGO/FY15/FY15Skills4JerseyNGO.pdf
     
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    Eligibility Details

    The one-year grant program is open to the following eligible applicants:

    1. Individual employers;
    2. Any employer organization, labor organization, community-based organization or faith-based organization;
    3. Any consortium comprised of two or more of the following: eligible individual employers, employer organizations and labor organizations, and community-based or faith-based organizations.

    Deadline Details

    Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

    Award Details

    The projected amount of funding available for this program in Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14) is estimated to be $11,000,000. The maximum award for individual businesses is $100,000. The maximum award for consortiums is $100,000 per participating business.




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