Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care

Posted by on April 14, 2006

[posted from RFP Bulletin]

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Launches New Initiative to Support Health Workers
Deadline: May 18, 2006

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (<a href="http://rwjf.org/">http://rwjf.org/</a>) has launched a new four-year, $15.3 million national initiative to support the needs of workers delivering direct health care and services (people such as medical assistants, health educators, laboratory technicians, substance abuse counselors, and home health aides), their employers, and the people they serve. Established by RWJF and the Hitachi Foundation (<a href="http://hitachifoundation.org/">http://hitachifoundation.org/</a>), the Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care program will support partnerships of employers and educational institutions to advance and reward the skill and career development of incumbent frontline workers.

The Jobs to Careers Call for Proposals encourages partnerships involving employers, educational institutions, and other community organizations to apply for grants. Projects supported through Jobs to Careers will expand and redesign systems to create lasting improvements in the way that institutions train and advance their front-line workers. Projects will also test new models of education and training that incorporate work-based learning, an approach to adult learning that formalizes and rewards learning that occurs within one’s job.

Jobs to Careers will support projects that involve emerging or existing partnerships of at least one health or health care employer and at least one educational institution (e.g., a community college) that provides academic credit or an industry-recognized credential. Eligible applicant organizations are employers, educational institutions, or other organizations within the partnership that are public entities or nonprofit organizations tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Only one organization representing the partnership may submit a proposal.

Up to eight grants will be awarded through this first round of funding. Applicants may apply for grants of up to $425,000 over three years. Grants of up to $575,000 over three years may be available for a limited number of partnerships in which the number of participating employers, number of affected employees, or other circumstances warrants more substantial funds.

More information about the Jobs to Careers initiative, including the Call for Proposals, is available at the program’s Web site.

RFP Link: <a href="http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10001679/jtcp">http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10001679/jtcp</a>

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