Jobs Training Program (260F)

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Training Current Employees of Iowa Companies
Funding Community College-Sponsored Employee Training Projects
Is My Business Eligible to Participate?
How Do I Apply?

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Training Current Employees of Iowa Companies

The Iowa Jobs Training Program (260F) provides job training services to current employees of eligible businesses.

Eligible businesses work with their local community college, which assesses training needs, determines funds available and provides training.
Helps companies train current employees to develop new skills.
Valuable employee training for little to no cost.

Funding Community College-Sponsored Employee Training Projects

The Community College Consortium (260F) program provides funding assistance for community college-sponsored employee training projects in which two or more businesses participate.

Iowa's 15 community colleges work with a group of eligible businesses to assess training needs, determine funds needed and provide training.
Valuable employee training at little to no cost.

Is My Business Eligible to Participate?

Eligible businesses:

Must be located in Iowa.
Must be engaged in interstate or intrastate commerce for the purpose of
manufacturing, processing, assembling products, or conducting research and
development.
Retail, healthcare, and professional services businesses are not eligible to
participate.
Eligible service-providing businesses must have customers outside of Iowa.
Within the 36-month period prior to the date of applying for program
services, a business cannot have closed or reduced its employment base by
more than 20% at any of its other business sites in Iowa in order to relocate
substantially the same operation to another area of the state.