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TRAINING GRANTS CUSTOMIZED TRAINING We provide quality, leadership, and productivity improvement programs. The approach is to customize program content to meet your company’s unique needs. Our comprehensive training and financial assistance programs are clearly unique, helping businesses to meet training needs that would otherwise go unaddressed. NTA provides customized training in the areas of: · Quality Management Systems - Implementation of ISO 9001 and all industry variations. · Lean Manufacturing / Service - Tools of Productivity Improvement. · Leadership Development – A suite of programs to effect managers and supervisors. GRANTS AND TRAINING INFORMATION Reasons for State Training Grants Eligibility for State Training Grants Administering Training Grant Contract Types of Training Reimbursement A grant is a direct financial contribution made without the expectation of repayment. Grants are made available by a number of sources for various reasons. A training grant is pretty much as it sounds. Money is provided by a source to train an individual or a group of people. While these training grant “contributions” are not expected to be repaid, they do carry some very specific expectations and outcomes. For example, electricians may be needed in a certain state and that union, perhaps in conjunction with the state, will provide training grants and the training to fill job vacancies. GOVERNMENT TRAINING GRANTS Governments also provide training grants. Federally backed government grants are made available to support specific administrative initiatives. Initiatives to promote the development of goods and services provided to the government or to expand research and development in certain fields such as energy, aerospace, transportation, and much more.
Individual states also provide training grants. In fact every state provides some sort of state training grant. The money that funds these state training grants can come from a variety of sources. The grant money can be state legislated or come via the federal government or it can be a combination of the two. In rare instances, in the case of Some states also provide programs to help employers train incumbent workers (actively employed). The payback for this type of training is enormous. Training the employee improves their skills and can lead to internal promotions. Promotions lead to positions for new hires. This type of training grant also improves the overall skill level of a state wide workforce thus attracting new companies to establish or relocate in that state. ELIGIBILITY FOR STATE GRANTS FOR TRAINING Eligibility for state training grants varies by state. Some states provide grants for manufacturers only, some will include service industries. Other states have predetermined industrial sectors such as hospitality, financial, information technology. Just to complicate matters, favored industries, agencies or skill sets can all change at a governor’s whim. WRITING A TRAINING GRANT PROPOSAL
A state grant sounds like free money. However, in most cases, the company looking for state training grants has to put an enormous amount of work, effort and time into finding a suitable grant source. Then understanding the grantor’s intent, writing the requisite proposals and conforming to program’s conditions can be a daunting task. Budgets are limited making the request process very competitive. In some cases rewrites are possible but usually one must wait till the next funding cycle. ADMINISTERING A TRAINING GRANT CONTRACT If the grant is awarded, performing the training proposed and reporting on the use of the funds (seemingly never ending bureaucratic forms and paperwork) requires additional knowledge and lots of hard work. Often without much prior experience what a company is granted for is rarely seen. There is an old adage in the grant business – “It’s not how much you are awarded but how much you actually get to keep”. BENEFITS OF STATE TRAINING GRANTS FOR YOUR COMPANY ABOUT CUSTOMIZED TRAINING MANUFACTURING TRAINING GRANTS TYPES OF TRAINING THAT QUALIFY FOR TRAINING GRANTS Some grants are topic specific such Basic Literacy, ESL, and Basic Computer to name a few. Mandated types of training such as Human Resource topics or regulatory safety programs are usually excluded from reimbursement although some states have special funds for these topics as long as they are above and beyond the regulatory level. In a state that allows customized grants most training topics qualify for reimbursement. As long as the training proposed aligns with the business’ needs, a case can be made for reimbursement. Complex company wide programs such as ERP ISO and Lean can be reimbursed in part or whole. In a customized training grant proposal it is always up to the company to decide on how much, who will perform training and what type of training reimbursement to request. NTA’s FREE EVALUATION For companies located in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts make the toll free call to 1-800-782-0050 or contact us and with no obligation we will direct you to a funding source, determine your eligibility and provide you with an estimate of how much your state training grant could be worth. |
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