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Regions Foundation

Funds economic and community development, education, and workforce training in the South and Midwest.

Labor

Apprenticeship is a valuable training system that provides New York State businesses with a well-trained, highly skilled workforce through a combination of structured on-the-job training and related and supplemental instruction. Apprentices learn a trade while earning wages, and upon successful program completion, receive a nationally and industry-recognized portable work credential. Sponsors operate apprenticeship programs in both the private and public sectors, and include single businesses, single businesses and a union, groups of businesses such as associations, and group labor/management organizations representing both businesses and a union or unions. Program sponsors pay most of the training costs while simultaneously increasing the wages of the apprentices as their skill levels increase. Apprenticeship is beneficial to businesses because it leads to reduced turnover rates, better employee relations, and a well-trained/highly skilled workforce. As a result of the emphasis on safety training, businesses also benefit from reduced workers? compensation costs. The New York State Registered Apprenticeship (RA) program employs work-based training conducted in accordance with industry-based training outlines, and each apprentice is required to complete a minimum of 144 hours of related and supplemental instruction during each year of training. Increasingly, apprentices can receive college credit for the work experience and instruction they receive. Most programs use a time-based training approach where apprentices track the skills acquired through task rotation and complete the program after a pre-determined length of time. New York State?s Apprenticeship regulations also permit the use of hybrid and competency-based approaches to training. These methods, which verify competency, allow program sponsors flexibility in how on-the-job training is provided and are leading to expansion of the RA program into new and emerging trades and industries such as Advanced Manufacturing, Information Technology, Hospitality, and Healthcare. The New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) continues to receive new trade proposals in competency and hybrid approaches and has recently approved a competency-based Pharmacy Associate training outline.

New York Power Authority (NYPA)

NYPA is funding workforce training initiatives in the renewable energy field in cooperation with NYS Department of Labor, including supporting RTI's apprentice/vocational programs. This funding focuses on the apprentice/vocational program involving the building and trade industry, specifically plumbing, carpentry, electrical, HVAC, and solar panel installation.

NIA - National Institute on Aging

ABSTRACT For this project, I plan to use my experience in surgical outcomes research in order to support and train surgeon scientists focused on the care of older adult surgical patients while leverage existing infrastructure and resources available at Weill Cornell Medicine-NewYork Presbyterian. With the help of experienced mentors and the strong team that I have built, our group will identify variations in care and outcomes in older adults undergoing surgery with a particular focus on adults with difficult social situations or from low socioeconomic backgrounds. We will combine Weill Cornell Medicine’s Architecture for Research Computing in Health (ARCH) databases and prospectively collected, geriatric specific measures, such as time to first goals of care conversation, time to first mobilization, and delirium incidence to identify variations in care practices and outcomes for older adults undergoing surgery. We will use qualitative methods to investigate patient anxiety around decisions for surgery and the role of caregivers and their burden. Our goal will be to contribute to improving the care for older adults undergoing surgery and establish a robust research and training infrastructure that will strengthen a resilient surgical workforce. Growing our already active high-quality patient-oriented research (POR) program in geriatric surgery, we will focus on optimizing perioperative care, surgical decision making, and on training surgeon scientists in the study of the older surgical patient. We will conduct new and innovative research in areas identified in the American College of Surgeons Optimal Resources for Geriatric Surgery, particularly in frailty assessment, preoperative optimization, quality of life in older adults, and surgical risk stratification, and post- surgical recovery. We will use data and experience from this K24 in order to position my team for additional R01 funding and my trainees for K grant funding mechanisms.

New York Power Authority (NYPA)

As part of NYPA's funding of its workforce training incentives is the renewable energy field, NYPA is supporting the RETI Center?s expansion of their EV & Battery RETI program.

National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will award Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) to eligible, domestic institutions to develop and/or enhance predoctoral and postdoctoral research training, including short-term research training, to help ensure that a highly trained workforce is available to meet the needs of the Nations biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research agenda. Research training programs are expected to incorporate engaging, didactic, research, and career development elements to prepare trainees for careers that will have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the Nation. Programs proposing only short-term predoctoral research training should not apply to this announcement, but rather to the Kirschstein-NRSA Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grant Program (T35) exclusively reserved for predoctoral, short-term research training.This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) does not allow appointed Trainees to lead an independent clinical trial but does allow them to obtain research experience in a clinical trial led by a mentor or co-mentor.

National Institutes of Health

<p>The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will award Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) to eligible, domestic institutions to develop and/or enhance predoctoral and postdoctoral research training, including short-term research training, to help ensure that a highly trained workforce is available to meet the needs of the Nations biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research agenda. Research training programs are expected to incorporate engaging, didactic, research, and career development elements to prepare trainees for careers that will have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the Nation. Programs proposing only short-term predoctoral research training should not apply to this announcement, but rather to the Kirschstein-NRSA Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grant Program (T35) exclusively reserved for predoctoral, short-term research training.This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) does not allow appointed Trainees to lead an independent clinical trial but does allow them to obtain research experience in a clinical trial led by a mentor or co-mentor.</p>

National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will award Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grants (T35) to eligible, domestic institutions to develop and/or enhance research training opportunities for predoctoral students interested in careers within biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research workforce. Many NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) use this NRSA program exclusively to support intensive, short-term research training experiences for health professional students (medical students, veterinary students, and/or students in other health-professional programs) during the summer. This program is also intended to encourage training of graduate students in the physical or quantitative sciences to pursue interests in research careers by short-term exposure to, and involvement in, the health-related sciences. The training should be of sufficient depth to enable the trainees, upon completion of the program, to have a thorough exposure to the principles underlying the conduct of biomedical research.

National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will award Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grants (T35) to eligible, domestic institutions to develop and/or enhance research training opportunities for predoctoral students interested in careers within biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research workforce. Many NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) use this NRSA program exclusively to support intensive, short-term research training experiences for health professional students (medical students, veterinary students, and/or students in other health-professional programs) during the summer. This program is also intended to encourage training of graduate students in the physical or quantitative sciences to pursue interests in research careers by short-term exposure to, and involvement in, the health-related sciences. The training should be of sufficient depth to enable the trainees, upon completion of the program, to have a thorough exposure to the principles underlying the conduct of biomedical research.

Salesforce.org

Grants for organizations providing Salesforce training and career pathways to underrepresented communities.

New York Power Authority (NYPA)

As part of NYPA's funding of its workforce training initiatives in the renewable energy field, NYPA is providing a pilot program opportunity with Say Yes Buffalo, Inc. to fund the SYB Youth Apprenticeship Program to serve high demand sectors in the amount of $600,000, which will partially fund a program known as the ?Say Yes Buffalo/CareerWise Greater Buffalo Modern Youth Apprenticeship Program." This program will combine paid on-the-job learning, professional mentorship, aligned educational training and credentialing, and wraparound case supports designed to ensure historically underserved youth have equitable access to and retention in secure, mid-wage, mid-skill jobs with room to grow.

South Carolina Department of Commerce

Provides job development credits, enterprise zone incentives, and the readySC workforce training program for businesses locating in South Carolina.

NIAAA - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Scaling up AUD Information Resources for Provider Education: The Behavioral Health Counseling Competencies AUD Training Suite Project Summary The alcohol treatment gap is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that requires intervention related to public awareness, access to specialty care, and improvement in the quality and quantity of the broader, behavioral health workforce. The current proposal targets the latter via the development of a training product designed to increase provider knowledge and skill related to alcohol misuse and AUD. This Phase I/II Fast Track STTR proposal will create a didactic and interactive simulation training that will facilitate provider use of the content and tools within NIAAA’s key dissemination resource - Rethinking Drinking. The product will incorporate two additional elements. First, content delivery will be grounded in an NIAAA-funded training program targeting four core competencies of behavioral health counseling: 1) developing a behavior change relationship, 2) providing psychoeducation, 3) setting and monitoring behavior change goals, and 4) providing behavioral skills training. Second, training technology will include proprietary conversation-simulation technology that has a 15-year track record in changing provider behaviors. The team includes the small business applicant, the primary academic partner, and the conversation simulation company. Additional content expertise will be provided by a panel of subject matter experts. The team are established independent investigators, small business award recipients, and long-standing collaborators, which enhances the feasibility and probability of success in meeting the following Specific Aims. Phase I will establish feasibility and technical merit via the development, expert panel review, and end user piloting of the first of the four-module training program – Alcohol and you, establishing a behavior change relationship. Phase II will develop Module 2 How much is too much? providing psychoeducation, Module 3 Thinking about change, goal setting and monitoring, and Module 4 Setting drinking boundaries, providing behavioral skills training and conduct a pilot randomized trial (N = 55) comparing the training suite to a dissemination as usual control using a pre-post, standardized patient design. Commercialization will occur throughout the award period and particularly in year three. The proposed project merges team expertise and technical support to create a novel training product that can increase the quality and quantity of the behavioral health workforce, thereby contributing to reductions in the alcohol treatment gap.

U.S. National Science Foundation

Our world is at a pivotal moment where the boundaries dividing the physical and social worlds from the cyber world have become blurred. Cyberspace has evolved from an interconnected digital environment into a complex and interdependent cyber ecosystem that involves hardware, software, networks, data, people, organizations, countries, and the physical world. Critical functions of everyday life are deeply intertwined with computing, including health, government, commerce, the public sphere, education, critical infrastructure, interpersonal communication, and transportation. The complexity and inter-dependencies in cyberspace can be misused and exploited by malicious actors. These in turn can trigger adverse outcomes such as disruption of critical infrastructure and systems; theft of intellectual property and sensitive data; amplification of inequalities; disclosure of private information of individuals, organizations, and governments; and threats to lives, livelihoods, and reputations. Furthermore, constant attacks on the data and assets of corporations, governments, and individuals undermine people s trust in decision-making and processes that depend critically on these cyber systems. The Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (SaTC 2.0) program aims to build trust in global cyber ecosystems. Trust is the core tenet of this program and, for the purposes of this solicitation, is broadly defined to include our confidence in the security, privacy, and resilience of cyberspace, particularly in the face of malicious intent. Achieving this level of confidence in cyberspace requires not only understanding the vulnerabilities in a system that could be exploited and how they can be addressed, but also understanding the social and technical dimensions of trust in cyber systems, along with the educational efforts needed to increase public awareness of risks in cyberspace, and building a well-trained corps of privacy and security professionals. SaTC 2.0 spans the interests of NSF's Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), and STEM Education (EDU). Proposals must be submitted pursuant to one of the following designations, each of which may have additional requirements: RES: The Research (RES) designation is the focus of the multidisciplinary SaTC 2.0 research program. RES projects are limited to $1,200,000 in total budget, with durations of up to four years. Proposals with a total budget of more than $600,000 have additional requirements including Broadening Participation in Computing and collaboration plans. RES proposals may include an optional Transition to Education (TTE) plan with a budget up to $50,000 (within the RES total budget request) to co-evolve novel educational initiatives in the context of the proposed research. EDU: The Education (EDU) designation is used to identify proposals focusing on education and workforce training in building trust in security, privacy, and resilience of cyberspace. EDU proposals are limited to $500,000 in total budget, with durations of up to three years. EDU proposals that primarily focus on education research with demonstrated collaboration, as reflected in the PI team between cybersecurity subject matter experts and education researcher(s), may request an additional $100,000 beyond the $500,000 limit. SEED: The Seedling (SEED) category is intended for special topics defined by accompanying Dear Colleague Letters. SEED projects are limited to $300,000 in total budget, with durations of up to two years.

ServiceNow Foundation

Funds workforce development and digital skills training for underrepresented job seekers.

Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Inc.

To support their youth internship and workforce development program, for 50 low-income youth, ages 14-18, who reside in Far Rockaway. The proposed Shore Corps training curriculum will combine interactive, on-the-job training in a variety of skills related to RWA’s mission and work around environmental stewardship and conservation, with more conventional, classroom-based training in basic employability skills that will leave participants ready to enter the workforce, especially in the area of green collar jobs.

Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Inc.

To support their youth internship and workforce development program, for 50 low-income youth, ages 14-18, who reside in Far Rockaway. The proposed Shore Corps training curriculum will combine interactive, on-the-job training in a variety of skills related to RWA’s mission and work around environmental stewardship and conservation, with more conventional, classroom-based training in basic employability skills that will leave participants ready to enter the workforce, especially in the area of green collar jobs.

National Institutes of Health

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nations biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on: Courses for Skills Development

National Institutes of Health

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nations biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on: Courses for Skills Development

U.S. National Science Foundation

Software is an integral enabler of computation, experiment and theory and a primary modality for realizing the Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) vision, as described in http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10015/nsf10015.jsp. Scientific discovery and innovation are advancing along fundamentally new pathways opened by development of increasingly sophisticated software. Software is also directly responsible for increased scientific productivity and significant enhancement of researchers' capabilities. In order to nurture, accelerate and sustain this critical mode of scientific progress, NSF has established the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program, with the overarching goal of transforming innovations in research and education into sustained software resources that are an integral part of the cyberinfrastructure. SI2 is a long-term investment focused on catalyzing new thinking, paradigms, and practices in developing and using software to understand natural, human, and engineered systems. SI2's intent is to foster a pervasive cyberinfrastructure to help researchers address problems of unprecedented scale, complexity, resolution, and accuracy by integrating computation, data, networking, observations and experiments in novel ways. NSF expects that its SI2 investment will result in robust, reliable, usable and sustainable software infrastructure that is critical to achieving the CIF21 vision and will transform science and engineering while contributing to the education of next generation researchers and creators of future cyberinfrastructure. Education at all levels will play an important role in integrating such a dynamic cyberinfrastructure into the fabric of how science and engineering is performed. It is expected that SI2 will generate and nurture the interdisciplinary processes required to support the entire software lifecycle, and will successfully integrate software development and support with innovation and research. Furthermore, it will result in the development of sustainable software communities that transcend scientific and geographical boundaries. SI2 envisions vibrant partnerships among academia, government laboratories and industry, including international entities, for the development and stewardship of a sustainable software infrastructure that can enhance productivity and accelerate innovation in science and engineering. The goal of the SI2 program is to create a software ecosystem that includes all levels of the software stack and scales from individual or small groups of software innovators to large hubs of software excellence. The program addresses all aspects of cyberinfrastructure, from embedded sensor systems and instruments, to desktops and high-end data and computing systems, to major instruments and facilities. Furthermore, it recognizes that integrated education activities will play a key role in sustaining the cyberinfrastructure over time and in developing a workforce capable of fully realizing its potential in transforming science and engineering. The SI2 program includes three classes of awards: 1. Scientific Software Elements (SSE): SSE awards target small groups that will create and deploy robust software elements for which there is a demonstrated need that will advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering. 2. Scientific Software Integration (SSI): SSI awards target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of common software infrastructure aimed at solving common research problems. SSI awards will result in a sustainable community software framework serving a diverse community. 3. Scientific Software Innovation Institutes (S2I2): S2I2 awards will focus on the establishment of long-term hubs of excellence in software infrastructure and technologies, which will serve a research community of substantial size and disciplinary breadth. Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} This solicitation includes SSE and SSI awards only. S2I2 awards will be competed in a separate solicitation (currently http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf13511) Please refer to (i) A Vision and Strategy for Software for Science, Engineering, and Education (NSF 12-113) and (ii) Implementation of NSF Software Vision (http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504817) for further information about NSF's vision for software as part of cyberinfrastructure and the programs that support this vision.Prospective PIs should be aware that SI2 is a multi-directorate activity and that they are encouraged to submit proposals for software with broad, interdisciplinary interest. PIs are encouraged to refer to core program descriptions, Dear Colleague Letters, and recently posted initiatives on directorate and divisional home pages to gain insight as to the priorities for the relevant area(s) of science to which their proposal may be responsive. For example, the MPS and ENG directorates have particular interest in proposals related to matter by design. As not all units are participating at the same level, it is strongly recommended that prospective PIs contact a program officer from the list of Cognizant Program Officers in the division(s) closest to the major disciplinary impact of the proposed work to ascertain that the scientific focus and budget of the proposed work are appropriate for this solicitation.Please note that some NSF units have additional specific information about their participation in this program:Biological Sciences (BIO) is primarily interested in SSI proposals and those are the only class of proposal that will be considered via this solicitation. PIs wishing to submit Scientific Software Elements (SSE) level projects that focus on biological sciences must submit them to ABI (http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5444) for the August deadline.CISE is interested in supporting SSE and SSI proposals that advance software infrastructure to sustain progress in CISE research areas and that advance and adapt Software Engineering research to impact the software sustainability needs of other scientific disciplines.Engineering (ENG) is primarily interested in SSI proposals.Geosciences (GEO) is interested in mid-scale (SSI) software development projects that serve groups within the geosciences or that link the geosciences with other fields. Successful projects will demonstrate deep embeddedness with geoscience end-user groups and involve a strong and interactive collaboration between geo and cyber/computer scientists. Priority will be given to projects that serve large numbers of end-users in diverse fields. The ability to build on previous GEO and/or NSF investments in cyberinfrastructure will be considered a strength. Proposers of GEO-related projects are strongly encouraged to consult with the cognizant GEO Program Officer.Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS):The Division of Materials Research (MPS/DMR) is particularly interested in projects that develop software tools to enable and support research under the Materials Genome Initiative, such as Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF; see NSF 11-089), and under Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering, and Materials (SusChEM; see NSF 12-097).The Chemistry Division (MPS/CHE) will not participate in funding projects in 2013, but will participate again starting in 2014.The Physics Division (MPS/PHY) will consider proposals that focus on innovative computational tools that enable advances in the division's research areas.The Division of Astronomical Sciences (MPS/AST) will consider proposals to support the development of sustainable software that will enable broad community progress on key questions in astronomy and astrophysics.The Division of Mathematical Sciences (MPS/DMS) would welcome proposals building computational tools that have broad application in mathematical sciences and related areas.MPS supports education and community development in CI, for example, through proposals that include visitor support (particularly for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers), postdoctoral opportunities, or short training courses that increase interactions of domain scientists and software and/or cyberinfrastructure specialists.

New York Power Authority (NYPA)

As part of NYPA's funding of its workforce training incentives is the renewable energy field, NYPA is supporting Soulful Synergy?s program to deliver specialized training to equip participants with advanced weatherization techniques, and with skills in building and transportation electrification with a focus on New Rochelle and Mount Vernon.

South Carolina Technical College System / ReadySC

ReadySC provides customized workforce training grants to new and expanding businesses in South Carolina, funding employee training programs developed in partnership with the state's technical college system to build a skilled workforce.

South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED)

Workforce Development grants support South Dakota employers and training providers in developing skilled workers through customized training programs, apprenticeships, and industry-specific skills development initiatives.

South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED)

Tribal Partnership grants support collaborative economic development projects between South Dakota tribal nations and surrounding communities, fostering economic opportunity, infrastructure development, and workforce training on and near reservations.