The Illinois Manufacturers’ Association (IMA) is responsible for distributing grant funds to administer a job training program modeled after the ETIP Multi Company program. IMA will be responsible for distributing the grant funds to qualified Illinois based companies to offset up to 50% of a company’s eligible cost for the delivery of a training program to help upgrade the skills of their full-time employees.

Manufacturing companies, oil companies, and even logistics companies can recoup up to 50% of the cost of the trainer for training that happened between July 1, 2017 and March 31, 2018.

IMA has worked to over come the two biggest obstacles to getting companies to apply.

1. IMA has a grant coordinator that will fill out the application for members, companies ONLY have to submit documentation. 

2. All remaining grant funds will be paid out. IMA currently has funds available for up to 50% of the cost of your training.

 GWRPC has set up a Conference call for companies interested in learning more. The conference call is set for Tuesday, May 1, at 10:30AM until 11:00AM

Conference call in number: 800-346-2923 CODE: 42051#