Funding Details
Program goal
To provide more opportunities for New York City job seekers to get trained for work and careers, while helping employers find a ready, willing, and able workforce.
Grants are made to
Develop employer-driven workforce partnerships that link nonprofits, institutions, and businesses in a particular economic sector (such as health care, technology, and hospitality) or for a particular constituency or community that:
- Provides training, placement, and post-placement services; or
- Tests new approaches for helping those with serious barriers to employment (such as very low numeracy and literacy skills, no high school degree, court-involvement, or mental or physical disabilities).
- Expands the number of industry alliances or workforce intermediaries that provide education and training and improve industry hiring practices, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement.
- Promotes a stronger, more effective workforce development system of services for job seekers in New York City through partnerships with government and capacity building for workforce providers.
Advocates for better jobs in particular sectors or through public policies by:
- Works with employers in specific industries to increase the performance and pay of workers.
- Advances public policy to ensure fair wages, working conditions, and business practices.
Read the background paper that informed this grantmaking strategy here.
Recent grants
| Organization | Summary |
|---|---|
Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center |
to build the capacity of an employment program serving young people with limited education and job skills. |
Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow |
to improve a youth workforce development program in Brooklyn. |
New Settlement |
to expand a workforce development program for young people from the Bronx with employment barriers. |
New Jewish Home |
to prepare young adults for jobs as certified nursing assistants. |
ExpandED Schools |
advocate for work-based learning programs for New York City high school students. |
National Center for Law and Economic Justice, Inc. |
to continue to promote labor protections for low-wage workers in New York. |
Worker’s Justice Project |
to continue to advocate on behalf of app delivery workers. |
Center for Employment Opportunities, Inc |
to expand an employment program for the formerly incarcerated. |
Grace Institute of New York |
to expand a workforce program for low-income women. |
Per Scholas, Inc. |
to analyze the costs of providing remote workforce training through community groups. |
Per Scholas, Inc. |
to continue satellite training sites with three community groups. |
Center for an Urban Future |
to research and make recommendations to improve CUNY’s efforts to engage employers. |
Association of Community Employment Programs for the Homeless |
to help individuals with employment barriers maintain jobs and advance in the labor market. |
Per Scholas, Inc. |
to continue satellite training sites with three community groups. |
NYC Workforce Development Fund |
for joint grantmaking in workforce development. |
Hostos Community College Foundation |
to continue to help two CUNY community colleges prepare unemployed New Yorkers for jobs in high-demand sectors. |
LaGuardia Community College Foundation |
to continue to help two CUNY community colleges prepare unemployed New Yorkers for jobs in high-demand sectors. |
City University of New York |
to continue to help two CUNY community colleges prepare unemployed New Yorkers for jobs in high-demand sectors. |
The New School |
to inform workforce development policy through labor market analysis. |
Center for an Urban Future |
to research and make recommendations for publicly funded workforce supports services. |
Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College of CUNY |
to develop partnerships between the City University of New York community colleges and the city’s many labor unions. |
The New School |
to continue to provide economic analysis on New York City’s economy and labor market. |
Phipps Neighborhoods, Inc. |
to expand healthcare and building maintenance training programs for unemployed Bronx young people (for youth development section). |
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