Addressing rural Wisconsin’s workforce challenges
22 Dec 2022
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The Workforce Innovation Grant (WIG) Program, with grant rounds announced in January and June 2022, aims to help communities throughout Wisconsin solve their most pressing workforce challenges by financially supporting collaborative, sustainable and innovative plans developed by regional organizations. The program encourages the development and implementation of leading-edge, long-term solutions that enable businesses to more easily find workers and empower those workers to more successfully prepare for and connect with family-supporting jobs.
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