Green Energy Grants Available in NJ; Applications Due Oct. 8

TRENTON - Companies, nonprofits, educational institutions, and other organizations are urged to apply for grants from $250,000 to $1.5 million for workforce training as New Jersey builds out its green economy.

There is $7 million in the pot, including $2.65 million from the Wind Institute for Innovation and Training and $4.35 million through the Governor’s Council on the Green Economy.  

Applications for the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s Green Workforce Training Challege are due Oct. 8. Proposed initiatives must focus on at least one of these industries: 

• Offshore Wind   
• Other Renewable Energy Technologies  
• Green Design & Construction   
• Environmental and Green Infrastructure  
• Grid Resilience   
• Clean Transportation  
• Energy Efficiency 

Applicants must submit proposals that outline compelling plans to implement an existing program or new program that will allow New Jerseyans to access workforce opportunities in green economy industries by providing tangible skills sought by employers in those industries. 

Components of programs must include direct workforce training/skill development, and, where relevant, support services such as career development, mentorship, and wraparound assistance including for transportation fare, childcare, eldercare, and counseling. 

Eligible applicants can include community-based organizations, nonprofit or private workforce training organizations, labor unions, technical high schools, county colleges, nonprofit organizations, regional workforce development boards and for-profit companies.  

Applicants must include, at a minimum, one community-based organization (CBO) that serves one or more state-designated overburdened community as part of their application. The CBO must either be the applicant or, in the alternative, a strategic collaborator with the applicant. 

For more information, including the online application, go here.