Apprenticeship funding opportunities

Current funding opportunities

• Check back later for funding opportunities.

Past funding opportunities (closed):

• Labor Education Advancement Program (LEAP) grant:  Funding to community-based organizations to facilitate the participation of people of color, Indigenous people and women in registered apprenticeship programs.

• On-The-Job Training and Related Technical Instruction grant:  Funding for employers of registered apprentices and existing state registered apprenticeship programs to help off-set expenses for on-the-job training or related technical training instruction that will successfully retain participants in registered apprenticeship programs.

• Related Technical Instruction and On-The-Job Training grant:  Funding to support employers interested in forming a new registered apprenticeship program, and support existing registered apprenticeship programs seeking to grow their current training programs.

• Career Exploration Training grant:  Funding to support career exploration programs that will introduce youth to careers through registered apprenticeship.

• Career Readiness Training grant:  Funding to support career-readiness/pre-apprenticeship programming to prepare individuals to enter and succeed in a registered apprenticeship program.

• Construction Career Readiness Training:  Funding to support construction career readiness/pre-apprenticeship programming to prepare individuals to enter and succeed in a registered apprenticeship program in the construction trades.

• Supportive Services grant:  Funding to develop supportive services programming to help prepare and support diverse participants as they begin new career paths into registered apprenticeship programs.

Questions?

Contact us at dli.apprenticeship@state.mn.us or 651-284-5090.