Philadelphia Works Got a $22.7M Federal Grant to Help 3,000 People Into Reliable Jobs
How do you get Philadelphians into jobs within stable, growing employment sectors, and how do you do it quickly?
Workforce development organization Philadelphia Works will be deploying strategies around this goal over the next three years, thanks to a grant from the US Economic Development Administration (EDA) as part of its Good Jobs Challenge.
PhilaWorks already offers training and professional development resources to Philadelphians. But this specific plan will target three industries — healthcare and life sciences, energy, and infrastructure, the org’s VP of operations and data, Patricia Blumenauer, told Technical.ly.
PhilaWorks was granted $22.7 million toward this initiative, and was one of 32 organizations across the country given resources through the Good Jobs Challenge, which itself was funded by $500 million earmarked by the American Rescue Plan.
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