Businesses for the Northern Forest

$40,000

To stimulate revenue increases of over $6 million for Northern Forest craft-based businesses, help stabilize over 775 craft-based jobs, and create 100 new craft and tourism jobs in northern New England and New York State.

Center for Women and Enterprise

$50,000

To help low-income women grow small businesses by improving the technical assistance consulting provided in the Boston and Worcester programs.

Nuestras Raices

$30,000

To support fifteen Latina women in a community-based approach to microenterprise/workforce development in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Washington Hancock Community Agency

$45,000

To maximize business potential of entrepreneurs in northern Maine through improved personal skills and knowledge; train Washington/Hancock County Agency staff to integrate personal skill building exercises into the general Incubator Without Walls program; and disseminate Human Potential Initiative results to other economic development agencies.

Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network

$50,000

To strengthen the organizational capacity to plan, design, fund, and manage an expansion of the current facility in New Hampshire; and to increase market access for 35 members through specialized training and technical assistance related to the expansion.

Women's Venture Fund

$25,000

To redesign the organization's case management system to strengthen technical assistance services and monitor the effectiveness of services provided in the New York area.

Boston Workforce Development Initiative

$50,000

To help unemployed and underemployed Boston residents find and retain quality jobs while also helping employers find and retain skilled workers.  First installment of a three year, $150,000 grant.

Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation

$40,000

To help 200 Massachusetts community development organizations increase their capacity to deliver workforce development services to low-income individuals; to increase communications and collaboration among the organizations providing these services; and to improve program design and service delivery by providing technical assistance to these organizations.

Preservation Trust of Vermont

$10,000

To reprint a booklet about the value of Vermont's locally owned economy and to produce a shorter brochure version for broader distribution.

Binding Together, Inc.

$50,000

To develop and launch a short-term, industry-specific training program that gives unemployed and underemployed individuals state-of-the-art skills for careers in print technology and graphic communications in the New York area.

CEI Staffing Services Inc.

$48,000

To accelerate and increase the number of competitive job placements for Managed Work Services employees, diversify and expand the business subscriber base, and develop new partnerships with other service providers in southern Maine.

New Hampshire Community Loan Fund

$35,000

To expand support to licensed nursing assistants and home companions by offering financial literacy training; and to evaluate and finalize curriculum for a home companion training program.

New York Jobs with Justice

$40,000

To implement a successful pre-apprenticeship training program for residents of New York City public housing.

Organizing and Leadership Training Center

$30,000

To develop programs in southeastern Massachusetts to help immigrants with health care experience and entry-level health care workers obtain jobs with career ladders.

ReCycle North

$25,000

To create a sustainable and effective job training program for disadvantaged youth in Vermont.

STRIVE Boston Employment Service

$100,000

To establish a training unit within the Suffolk County House of Corrections.

Women's Educational and Industrial Union

$40,000

To help low-income mothers in Boston develop the skills and capacity for professional careers and self-sufficiency.

Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation

$40,000

Through vocational training partnerships and employer linkages, to improve employment outcomes for adults on welfare with serious barriers to employment in the Bronx.

Year Up

$50,000

With the new site in Providence, to serve more urban adults each year with teaching, curriculum development, and instructional materials; and to  demonstrate the project's multi-city capability.

YMCA of Greater Boston

$40,000

To expand the number of locations offering the Training, Inc. model program, raise the profile, increase its documentation/portability, and develop a process for launching an affiliate program.

Massachusetts Workforce Alliance

$40,000

To engage and mobilize hundreds of workforce development practitioners and participants to advocate for improved system policies, and to develop a legislative agenda that increases state funding available for education and training for low-income people.