Joyce Foundation Launches $10 Million Midwest Workforce Initiative   
     
By Philanthropy News Digest 
Foundation Center  
June 15, 2006 
 
The Chicago-based Joyce Foundation has announced a three-year, $10
million initiative to improve the education and skills training of the
Midwest workforce and promote regional economic growth.

Through the Shifting Gears initiative, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin will be invited to apply for planning and
implementation grants of up to $1 million to coordinate the work of
their education agencies and job-training programs. Among other things,
the funding will provide support for efforts to link remedial studies,
community college courses and community- and employer-based job-training
programs so that workers in the region can acquire new job skills over
time. Coordinating these now-disparate services will help workers with
low-skill entry-level jobs in industries such as health care to move up
to jobs where demand is high and postsecondary qualifications are
essential.

Read the full article on the Foundation Center website here.  
 

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