The Workforce Training Fund Program helps address business productivity and competitiveness by providing resources to Massachusetts businesses to fund training for current and newly hired employees. In order for the Massachusetts economy to prosper, our businesses need access to a pipeline of skilled workers so they can stay competitive and continue to grow. Read below to see how our grant programs can help your business thrive.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
The Workforce Training Fund Program (WTFP) has adjusted its grantmaking policies to ensure the longevity of the WTFP while taking into account an unprecedented surge in grant applications. The following four policies will be applied to all Express and General Program applications submitted on or after July 10, 2023:
1. The maximum amount of a General Program grant will decrease from $250,000 to $200,000 per two-year grant award. This is in addition to the re-implementation of the one-year waiting period between General Program grants.
2. The maximum amount of Express Program reimbursement that a business may receive for approved training courses will decrease from $30,000 to $20,000 per calendar year.
3. Employers with over 100 Massachusetts employees will no longer be eligible to receive Express Program grants and will be encouraged to submit General Program applications.
4. Employers may only participate in either the Express or General Program at one time.
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Workforce Training Fund Program
Available to Businesses of all Sizes
Overview
The Workforce Training Fund Program (WTFP) helps address business productivity and competitiveness by providing resources to Massachusetts businesses to fund training for current and newly hired employees. In order to qualify, businesses must pay into the Fund. All for-profit companies automatically pay into the fund. If you are a non-profit, click here to learn if you qualify. Government agencies are not eligible to apply.
While available to businesses of all sizes, the WTFP focuses on small to medium-sized businesses that would not be able to invest in improving employee skills without the assistance of the Fund.
Impact Numbers
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Trainees Served in 2021
Resources
- Industry and Occupation, Research & Evaluation
The enabling legislation for the Workforce Training Fund (Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 29 Section 2RR) calls for a report to be filed with the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development and the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees, by September 1 of each year. The report addresses grants made during the previous fiscal year together with such recommendations and additional information as considered appropriate.
- Industry and Occupation
By Kathie Mainzer, Workforce Solutions Group, Tonja Mettlach, Massachusetts Workforce Association, and Anne Calef, Boston Indicators
- Industry and Occupation
The Workforce Training Fund Program awarded $22.78 million dollars in 2017 allowing 1,358 employers to be served and 19,408 workers to be trained across the state. See the report for more information.
News
Blog
- Industry and Occupation, Programs
- April 11, 2023
- Industry and Occupation
- December 15, 2021
The ReConvene series was designed to address both strategic and tactical decisions and priorities all while sharing the ins and outs of the new and improved Workforce Training Fund Express Program.
- Industry and Occupation
- September 3, 2020
Employers that completed training initiatives through the Workforce Training Fund's General Program in FY20 collectively added new jobs at a rate of 5.8 percent over their two-year grant periods, compared to job growth rates of -13.3 percent statewide and -7.9 percent nationwide during the same two-year period.
- Industry and Occupation
- February 14, 2020
Leadership is like being the first egg cracked in an omelette.
Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito.
That’s one of the messages about assertiveness that Cherrell McKoy picked up as a trainee in a workforce leadership program that’s now being offered to employees at Brockton-based Father Bill’s & MainSpring, the nonprofit that provides shelter to the homeless and supportive housing throughout southeastern Massachusetts, including the emergency shelter in the downtown area.
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