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Microenterprise Technical Assistance

Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund	$25,000
To offer training, technical assistance and legal services to microentrepreneurs and microenterprise development organizations.
Junta for Progressive Action	$25,000
To provide low-income Latina women with an opportunity to start a sustainable income-generating enterprise that will help them reach self-sufficiency.
Maine Highlands Guild	$40,000
To improve technical assistance and program delivery so that participating artisan businesses increase revenue and improve sustainability prospects.
Women's Business Development Center	$40,000
To enhance and expand technical assistance services for microentrepreneurs.

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Workforce Development Capacity Building

The Boston Foundation	$50,000
To help unemployed and underemployed Boston residents find and retain quality jobs while also helping employers find and retain skilled workers.

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Workforce Development Innovations / Enhancements

Boston Private Industry Council	$45,000
To help economically and educationally disadvantaged Boston high school graduates secure employment in high-demand health care occupations; and help Boston health care employers recruit and retain an ethnically diverse, professional workforce.
Christian Community Action	$26,000
To help poor and homeless individuals in New Haven's Hill neighborhood become financially self-sufficient.
Deconstruction Works Community Development Corporation	$45,000
To prepare and place nine ex-offenders in entry-level, living wage jobs in construction.
Jewish Vocational Service	$35,000
To provide job seeking skills training and assistance to women who live in transitional housing.
Midtown Community Court	$45,000
To empower young people to set and achieve positive employment and educational goals.
MY TURN, Inc.	$50,000
To develop a pipeline of workers prepared to enter a degree/certificate program, apprenticeship, or on-the-job training in the marine trades; to build career ladders for new entrants to marine trades; and to engage marine trades employers in supporting the model.
Opportunity Center of North Franklin County	$50,000
To open the first computer deconstruction facility in Maine and train up to 40 new employees in the first year.
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute	$40,000
To allow low-income direct care workers to benefit from stable work hours and gain greater economic security.
ReCycle North	$30,000
To improve professionalism and efficiency of materials re-use operations; and to expand income derived from those operations to subsidize more training activities.
St. Francis House	$40,000
To strengthen current on-site training program at Clarks Shoes, and recruit two additional companies to host on-site training centers.
STRIVE Boston Employment Service	$65,000
To place ex-offenders from the Suffolk House of Corrections and the Roxbury STRIVE program in jobs.
The Boston Foundation	$50,000
To help low-skill, low-income residents move to family sustaining jobs, and help employers find and retain skilled employees.
Vermont Works for Women	$50,000
To confer the first annual Frank Hatch Award for Enlightened Service to Executive Director Tiffany Bluemle and Vermont Works for Women.
Year Up	$20,000
To increase the number of students served and develop relationships with New York City corporations that will lead to paid apprenticeships and jobs.

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Workforce Development Policy / Advocacy

Maine Women's Policy Center	$40,000
To identify the needs of disenfranchised and low-wage workers; and to develop and disseminate recommendations for policies and programs that will facilitate the participation of low-wage workers in education and training opportunities.
New York City Employment and Training Coalition	$40,000
To organize community-based nonprofit groups, community colleges, and other coalition members to advocate for more effective workforce development and welfare-to-work policies.
The Workforce Alliance	$43,000
To help three New England workforce coalitions become independent, sustainable and effective in shaping state and federal welfare and job training policies.

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See 2007 Grants

See 2005 Grants

See 2004 Grants

See 2003 Grants