Deadline: 22-Jul-22
Alberta has announced the Workforce Strategies Grants program to help Albertans develop new skills and assist employers and industry to grow their workforce.
Workforce Strategies grant funding is intended to provide eligible applicants the ability to implement solutions that support skills, and employment and workforce development needs by supporting innovative projects.
Types of Funding Streams
- Skills Development Stream
- Regional and Employer-focused Stream
- Industry-focused Stream
Project Priorities
- Skills Development Stream
- Projects must include training and/or services that leads to employment, and supports two or more of the following:
- Albertans experiencing long-term unemployment exceeding 27 weeks
- Provides sector and/or occupational appropriate professional skills and/or essential skills training
- Project supports some of the sectors and sub-sectors highlighted in the Alberta Recovery Plan
- Skill development in occupations that have had an increase in automation and digitization
- Connects recent post-secondary graduates to employment in new and emerging sectors
- Regions outside of a Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) that have unique labour market need(s)
- Equity-deserving groups
- Projects must include training and/or services that leads to employment, and supports two or more of the following:
- Regional and Employer-focused Stream
- Regional, community or employer-focused initiatives supporting innovative workforce solutions.
- Initiatives that assist employers, regions and communities to build a resilient and diverse workforce
- Industry-focused Stream
- Supporting Industry to Enable Economic Growth
- Investing in Alberta’s Future Workforce
- Building Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) through Innovation
Funding Information
- Skills Development Stream
- The grant agreement can be up to $1.5 million.
- Up to 36 months for duration of grant agreement.
- Length of training within the grant can be up to 26 weeks, and could also include multiple intakes within the duration of the grant agreement.
- Training and/or services that are shorter in length and smaller in scope are also encouraged.
- Regional and Employer-focused Stream
- Eligible organizations may apply for funding at a minimum of $50,000 and a maximum of $1.5 million. Funding requests outside this range will not be considered.
- Project duration is up to 36 months. Projects that exceed this duration will not be considered.
- Industry-focused Stream
- Eligible organizations may apply for funding at a minimum of $150,000 and a maximum of $1.5 million. Funding requests outside this range will not be considered.
- Project duration is up to 36 months. Projects that exceed this duration will not be considered
Eligibility Criteria
- Skills Development Stream
- Training providers
- Post-secondary institutions
- Indigenous organizations
- Employers
- Industry and sector associations
- Unions
- Non-profit organizations
- Sole proprietors Eligible applicants must have a minimum of two years’ organizational experience in:
- directly providing training or services; or
- have a demonstrated partnership with an organization that has two years of providing training or services
- Regional and Employer-focused Stream
- To be eligible for this grant, your organization must be a legal entity and one of the following:
- Profit businesses
- Non-profit organizations
- Industry/employer associations
- Employee organizations
- Charitable foundations
- Indigenous group, organization or community (on or off reserve)
- Municipal governments
- Eligible entities must have a minimum of two years’ organizational experience:
- supporting workforce needs in their particular area of expertise; or
- have a demonstrated partnership with an organization that has two years of experience supporting workforce needs.
- To be eligible for this grant, your organization must be a legal entity and one of the following:
- Industry-focused Stream
- To be eligible for this grant, your organization must be a legal entity and one of the following:
- an industry/employer association;
- an employee organization with a letter of commitment from an industry partner;
- a community organization with a letter of commitment from an industry partner
- To be eligible for this grant, your organization must be a legal entity and one of the following:
For more information, visit https://www.alberta.ca/workforce-strategies-grants.aspx