The Women and Minority Veterans in Construction Trades Program seeks to eliminate economic barriers commonly associated with an individual’s inability to invest in skills training and work readiness and connect National Guard, Reserve, retired and transitioning active-duty military members to quality career and training opportunities in the building and construction industry.
Donor Name: New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development
State: New Jersey
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/12/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This grant program provides women and minority veterans with training to prepare them for employment and/or placement in registered apprenticeship programs within the building and construction trades occupations or other industry occupations and provide quality support services to ensure success for placement into employment.
Funding from this grant announcement shall be used to support training in the construction and building trades. Any construction craft or administrative, support, operational occupations are acceptable. This includes professional titles as well as skill trades.
Funding Information
- The maximum amount of funding available for this program in fiscal year (FY) 2024 is anticipated to be $2,000,000. Grant awards are based on available funding.
- NJBUILD is designed to provide training opportunities for minorities and women in the construction trades and construction-related trades so that minorities and women can realize equal employment opportunity in public contracting. All state agencies are required to pay one-half of one percent of the total cost of construction contracts that are equal to or greater than $1,000,000 to the NJBUILD fund immediately upon award of the contract. This funding allows NJDOL to meet the requirements of the NJBUILD legislation.
Eligible Applicants
This targeted, competitive opportunity is designed to provide funding to eligible organizations to provide construction trades training, placement services and quality support services to women and minority veterans in accordance with the NGO. The following organizations are eligible to apply as the lead applicant:
- Any employer based in New Jersey or with a New Jersey presence;
- Workforce Intermediary Sponsors;
- Employer / Trade Associations;
- Any labor organization which represents workers in the occupation for which the apprentices will be trained;
- Labor/Management Partnership (public or private);
- New Jersey Local Education Agency (LEA);
- Public vocational schools within New Jersey;
- Public high schools within New Jersey;
- Two- and four-year institutions of higher education;
- Public or private non-profit organizations (including Community Based Organizations);
- Business or trade organizations representing a particular trade, group of trades, contractors or employers;
- Community-based organizations;
- New Jersey local Workforce Development Boards;
- Economic development organizations;
- State, Local, County governments within New Jersey;
- Any other private educational or training entity that is on the Eligible Training Provider List (ETPL).
For more information, visit NJDLWD.
