SCALE Grant

Scaling Capacity and Leveraging Employers (SCALE) Planning Grant

Overview

In an effort to support the ongoing economic recovery and growth objectives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Workforce Skills Cabinet (WSC) is introducing the Scaling Capacity and Leveraging Employers (SCALE) Planning Grant. These funds are aligning public and private resources across the system to scale effective education-to-employment pathways that better position residents who want to be hired into jobs that businesses need filled.   

The Commonwealth has an unprecedented opportunity to infuse significant resources into the public workforce system. The SCALE Planning Grant provides an opportunity to operationalize partnerships who will apply for larger implementation grants to solve bigger problems. This is done by de-risking the time required by businesses and stakeholder partners to determine and apply for implementation funding. SCALE encourages and requires direct engagement from the business community to solve their training, education and talent needs at a high volume.

Resources

WCTF grants expand training capacity to upskill new workers and address employers’ hiring needs across a broad range of occupations within industries such as healthcare, IT, transportation, and hospitality.

The enabling legislation for WCTF (Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 29 Section 2WWW) calls for a report to be filed annually with the Secretary of Administration and Finance; the House and Senate Committees on Ways and Means; and the Joint Committees on Community Development and Small Business, Education, Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, Labor and Workforce Development, and Public Health. The report must include the number of educational and eligible service providers receiving grants and participants receiving services and placed in employment, as well as the salary and benefits that participants receive after placement, the cost per participant, and job retention or promotion rates for the year after training ends.

In an effort to support the ongoing economic recovery and growth objectives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Workforce Skills Cabinet (WSC) is introducing the Scaling Capacity and Leveraging Employers (SCALE) Planning Grant. These funds are aligning public and private resources across the system to scale effective education-to-employment pathways that better position residents who want to be hired into jobs that businesses need filled. 

Commonwealth Corporation is a quasi-public agency that was established in 1996 under the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. 


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