Are you scrambling to find ways to pay for the improvements and training your employees need? Here are two opportunities you should check into:

Great Lakes Trade Adjustment Assistance Center:
The Great Lakes Trade Adjustment Assistance Center (GLTAAC) helps small manufacturers that have been negatively impacted by imports improve their competitiveness and long-term viability. This program matches up to $75,000!

GLTAAC runs the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms Program in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. The program has provided trade-injured manufacturers professional expertise and financial support needed to develop and implement recovery plans customized to meet each company’s individual needs. Support could include market research, sales plan development, lean manufacturing, quality certification, IT systems, and many other projects crucial to business success.

Click here to learn more about this program.
Click here to see if you qualify.

Training Acceleration Grant (TAG):
The Indiana General Assembly created the Incumbent Worker Training Fund (IWTF) in 2001 to:

* Enable firms to become competitive by making workers more productive through training
* Create a competitive economy by creating and retaining jobs
* Encourage increased training necessary due to an aging workforce
* Reduce future payment of unemployment compensation by providing workers with enhanced job skills
* Improve manufacturing productivity levels in Indiana

Click here to learn more about this program.
Click here to see if you qualify.

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