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Healey-Driscoll Administration Awards $2.2 Million for Re-Entry Workforce Development Grants to Train Formerly Incarcerated Individuals

The Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced $2.2 million in Re-entry Workforce Development Demonstration grants awarded to 11 organizations to train 389 formerly incarcerated individuals returning to the workforce for job opportunities in culinary, construction, manufacturing, hospitality, and healthcare. “We all benefit when individuals re-entering our communities have the relevant skills and experiences they need to succeed […]

Healey-Driscoll Administration Celebrates Five Years of the Career Technical Initiative, Highlighting Nearly $70 Million Invested in Massachusetts’s Skilled Trades Workforce

View All Photos This week, the Healey-Driscoll Administration celebrated five years of the Career Technical Initiative (CTI), a statewide workforce program that has partnered with 34 vocational technical schools to expand access to high-quality training in the trades, construction, and manufacturing sectors and reaching more than 4,600 unemployed and underemployed adult participants, to date. The […]

CommCorp Foundation Is Hiring an Early Education & Child Care Fellow

The Commonwealth Corporation Foundation is seeking a full-time Early Education & Child Care Fellow to help advance the Governor’s Interagency Early Education and Child Care Task Force initiatives. This one-year Fellowship offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of public policy, philanthropy, and systems change — helping to scope and launch innovative pilot […]

WCTF: $7.4 Million to Train and Place Over 1,100 Workers in Industries Statewide

Click here for photos SPRINGFIELD, MA — The Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced $7.4 million in workforce development grant funding for 16 initiatives across Massachusetts, representing partnerships with employers, training providers, and regional collaborators to train, upskill, and provide job placement for 1,161 workers for in-demand occupations in health care, education, information technology, and more. The Senator […]

Commonwealth Corporation Foundation launches RFEOI for Employer Child Care Innovation Fund (ECCIF)

The Department of Early Education and Care, in consultation with the Executive Office of Economic Development, and the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development are piloting a competitive matching grant program, to be administered by Commonwealth Corporation Foundation, to help employers support working families in the Commonwealth. ECCIF will provide competitive funding for employer-led child […]

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State Awards $7.4 Million to Train, Place More Than 1,100 Workers

SPRINGFIELD — The Healey-Driscoll administration announced $7.4 million in workforce development grant funding for 16 initiatives across Massachusetts — including two in Western Mass. — representing partnerships with employers, training providers, and regional collaborators to train, upskill, and provide job placement for 1,161 workers for in-demand occupations in healthcare, education, information technology, and more. The Senator […]

Healey-Driscoll Administration Awards $290,000 for Job Training for Young Adults with Disabilities

Click here for photos Milton – The Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced $290,000 in grant funding for four initiatives across Massachusetts to provide job training, employment placement, and post-placement services for 40 young adults with disabilities. As part of the grants, $77,500 will support planning grants for training providers.  Today’s announcement of the Employment Program for Young […]

State Labor Secretary Tours Whittier Tech, Hands Out Career Technical Initiative Grants

Labor and Workforce Development Secretary Lauren E. Jones toured Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School Tuesday to give the school $931,000 and award $24.2 million total to help 23 communities expand technical training programs for adults. Whittier Tech Superintendent Maureen Lynch hosted the state and local delegation for a tour and awards presentation. Besides the […]

Healey-Driscoll Administration Awards $24.2 Million to Expand Career Technical Training Opportunities for 2,500 Jobseekers

Career Technical Initiative Addresses the Persistent Demand for Workers in the Trades, Construction, and Manufacturing in Partnership with over 180 Employers   Click here for photos Haverhill — The Healey-Driscoll Administration awarded $24.2 million in Career Technical Initiative (CTI) implementation grants today to 23 organizations to train 2,490 individuals for careers in high-demand occupations within the […]