Grant Program Job Opportunities

To help launch a job training and placement program.

To provide general support for operating costs of two new sites.

To undertake an organizational development review.

To support the Temporary Services Initiative, developing “model” temporary service companies that are intended to provide a path off public assistance or low-wage work into employment paying a family-supporting wage.

To expand the loan fund’s technical assistance program to make capital accessible to Vermonters who are creating, developing or expanding businesses in the agricultural or natural resource fields.

To coordinate a statewide coalition of Community Development Finance Institutions with a particular focus on the effective expenditure of state and private resources the coalition has succeeded in obtaining.

To fund training, outreach, and other support services to rural women attending STEP UP, a training program designed to help low-income women enter the skilled trades, including expansion to a site for rural women.

To open the childcare center at the Urban Horizons Economic Development complex in the South Bronx.

To support peer learning in the area of home-based childcare; to support planning and curriculum development for the Ms. Foundation Institute on Women and Economic Development; and to support outreach and scholarships for Institute attendees based in the Northeast.

To help finance continued expansion into wholesale and retail used clothing market, as well as maintain and expand employment and training activities.