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PAsmart Grants Webinar Next Generation Industry Partnership October 10 and 12, 2019 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Hosted by: Pennsylvania Workforce Development Board

What is PAsmart?

PAsmart is a strategic approach to education and workforce development:

1. Investing in initiatives to support economic growth, and education and training opportunities 2. Strategic coordination and alignment of public programs, services, and funding 3. Transforming inter-agency, cross-sector collaboration 4. Better outcomes for PA students, workers, businesses, and communities

What are the PAsmart Grants?

$40 Million Investment

• $20 Million Computer Science and STEM Education
• $6.6 Million Apprenticeship and Pre-Apprenticeship
• $4.6 Million Next Generation Industry Partnerships

What are the PAsmart Grants?

For more information on the PAsmart grant initiative, please visit: https://www.pasmart.gov/ Or https://www.dli.pa.gov/Businesses/Workforce- Development/grants/Pages/default.aspx

• Partnership of businesses from the same

industry working together to address

• verall competitiveness of the industry.
• Business-driven Priorities
• Benefit workers, students, and the broader

community

Next Generation Industry Partnerships

• Improve the coordination and alignment of economic development,

education, and workforce development programs, services, and funding to better engage businesses in key industries.

• Address the workforce and economic development needs of

Pennsylvania industries through strategies that address economies

• f scale, and demand-driven, continuous improvement, coordination
• f effort.
• Increase the number Next Gen IPs at the local, regional and state

level representing key targeted industry sectors.

Goals of Next Gen IP Grants

Deadlines and Details

• Available Funding: $4.6 Million

– Max $250,000 per partnership

• Application Deadline: Friday, January 3, 2020
• Partnerships must align with the PAsmart

Framework principles and funding priorities

• Applicants must adhere to the Next Gen IP

model (Appendix A) PAsmart Next Gen IP Grants

Framework

• One grant to fund both convening and implementation

activities.

– Funds for convening activities capped at $45,000/partnership.

• Previously funded PAsmart Next Gen grantees:

– Can apply to fund both convening and implementation activities – Are not required to apply for funds to support convening activities

• Partnerships that have not yet received PAsmart Next Gen

Funds:

– Partnerships that have not developed an action plan or identified business driven priorities will only be awarded funding for convening activities. – Must clearly demonstrate that business-driven priorities have been identified and an action plan has been developed to receive funds for implementation activities.

PAsmart Next Gen IP Grants

Allowable Activities May Include but are not Limited to:

Convening Activities

• Facilitating Next Gen partnership meetings,

including launch activities.

• Attending commonwealth-sponsored Next Gen IP

trainings or events.

• Engaging business champions and business

partners from the defined industry of focus.

• Organizing and facilitating partnership meetings

for businesses and the regional support team to discuss local competitiveness needs.

• Working with businesses to determine the

partnership priorities.

• Developing a post-launch action plan.
• Maintaining partnership post-launch.
• Procuring consulting, technical assistance and

convening/facilitation services that use the Next Gen IP model.

• Supporting training including: Incumbent worker

training, Work-based learning experiences, and registered apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship

• pportunities.
• Aligning curriculum with business needs,

providing career awareness, and aligning with programs of study and career readiness activities across secondary and postsecondary education.

• Coordinated outreach of the region and industry
• Business-to-Business networking
• Developing and implementing sector strategies

that promote in-demand as well as competitive

• pportunities for Pennsylvania industries and
• ccupations.
• Improving workforce alignment and career

readiness within and across targeted industry clusters.

Implementation Activities

• Must complete required budget template
• Must provide a budget narrative that aligns

with the budget form and details quantity and cost of each line item.

• 10% Admin. Max
• 100% Total Match

– At least 25% Private Sector Cash Match

Budget Considerations

• Completed Application Form (17 pp. max)
• Budget Form
• Partnership Membership Form
• Training Plan (only if grant will fund training)
• Letters of Support

– 1. Economic Development – 2. Education – 3. Workforce Development

Framework

Required Application Elements

• Completed Applications due:

January 3, 2020 at 11:59 pm.

• Submit grants to RA-LI-PAWDB-IP@pa.gov

Pasmart Next Gen Grant Submission

• Please submit any questions to RA-LI-PAWDB-

IP@pa.gov.

• Check back on the L&I grants page for

updated FAQs

Questions