Grant Program Job Opportunities

To pilot a metal machining training program in conjunction with Capital Community Technical College.

To establish a model of access to broad-based entry-level technical skills training for unemployed and underemployed urban young adults and to provide opportunities for graduates to gain internship and permanent positions in high-paying technology-oriented jobs.

To assess the post September 11 labor market through a series of roundtable discussions with employers in key labor market sectors; to assist employment and training providers to understand the changes that have taken place in the post September 11;…

To open two additional STRIVE centers in 2002, one aimed at the Hispanic community and the other targeting South Boston’s population.

To provide thirty participants with six weeks of intensive preparation for work in five fields which pay a livable wage in the region; to provide continuing guidance for participants to support success in earning a livable wage; to meet the…

To develop organizing and leadership skills in Massachusetts’ low-income leaders of the future, and to build grassroots organizations capable of representing the interests of low-income people, both locally and state wide.

To provide training in manufacturing technology to unemployed or under-employed people.

To develop new housing-based programs for the hardest to serve homeless, and to institute a formal replication initiative to encourage adoption of Common Ground programs in other communities.

To add computer literacy to the basic training model; and to restructure the advanced training program to serve working graduates better.

To establish an institute that could 1) train other organizations in Acre’s approach to improving the quality of care and quality of jobs in family day care settings and (2) work in coalition with others to improve state policies affecting…