PROVIDENCE – Businesses have until Feb. 6 to submit proposals to receive up to $50,000 in work force training grants from the Governor’s Workforce Board of Rhode Island.
This year the state has set aside up to $2 million for the initiative, known as the 2009 Comprehensive Workforce Training Grant Program. Employers will be reimbursed for 50 percent of the cost of training activities.
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Both for-profit and nonprofit employers are eligible to receive the grants. Employers who received a grant in 2008 are not eligible this year.
The deadline for all proposals is Feb. 6. Grant award winners will be announced in March.
Separately, Tech Collective is reminding companies that information technology-training programs are available at no cost through the Workforce Board’s Industry Skills Development Initiative (ISDI) grants.
The grants are not limited to IT companies – any employer with an IT staff is eligible to receive training funds.
More information on the ISDI grants will be offered at Tech Collective’s free “I Belong” event on Feb. 19 from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. It will be held in Room MRC4 of the Academic Hall at Bryant University.
For more information on the 2009 Comprehensive Workforce Training Grant Program, visit www.rihric.com/RFPs.htm.
Tech Collective is a nonprofit alliance of Rhode Island information technology and biotech companies. For more information, visit www.tech-collective.org.
