Is Your Company Eligible for Workforce Partnership Grants

According to the Government of Alberta, The Workforce Partnership Grants provide funding to organizations such as employers, industry and sector associations, regional organizations, and Indigenous organizations to support labour market adjustment strategies and workforce development. These initiatives include efforts to attract and retain workers through partnerships.

Effective partnerships can improve the capacity of organizations to respond to workforce demands, implement labour force adjustments, address workforce issues, and support economic growth on a regional or provincial level. The Government of Alberta works in partnership with the Government of Canada to provide employment support programs and services.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants include:

• For-profit businesses
• Non-profit organizations
• Industry associations and employer organizations
• Employee organizations
• Local planning groups, economic development organizations, community action groups
• Organizations with charitable status
• Indigenous groups, organizations, or communities on or off reserve
• Municipalities

Eligible projects
Guidelines for both Labour Market Partnerships and Workforce Attraction and Retention Partnerships supersede the Alberta Works Online Manual content. Applicants can apply for different partnership grants depending on the activities and outcomes desired.

Labour Market Partnerships
These projects focus on developing information and best practices to support labour market adjustment strategies. Examples of activities include:

• Researching and analyzing labour market trends
• Developing strategic plans to prepare for future skill requirements and prevent skills shortages
• Promoting current labour market needs or raising awareness of labour market issues such as skills shortages
• Sharing best practices in human resource development and career or employment training

Workforce Attraction and Retention Partnerships
These projects focus on piloting and testing workforce development tools and initiatives to attract and retain workers. Examples of activities include:

• Connecting stakeholders to knowledge and resources that support their attraction and retention efforts
• Piloting, testing, or applying tools, techniques, and processes to assist in attracting and retaining workers

Program Priorities

Workforce Partnership priorities support industry, sector, and regional job creation and workforce recovery by:

• Encouraging workforce development across foundational and emerging sectors to support a diversified Alberta economy as identified in Alberta’s Recovery Plan
• Enabling job creators to increase employment through attraction and retention initiatives
• Addressing the impacts of workforce and sectoral adjustments by increasing industry or employer capacity to build a resilient workforce
• Building industry and employer capacity to increase and enhance workforce participation of newcomers, youth, Indigenous peoples, women, mature workers, and people living with a disability

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