Funding Sources

On November 1, 2009, the Office of Community and Economic Development (OCED) received two grants to further Partnership activities to start FY 09/10. The primary grant is a two-year Workforce Investment Areas (WIA) Discretionary Grant of $1,000,000 a year, of which $730,000 a year is being allocated to Partnership work groups and specified partners. The second is a three-year U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Grant of which $75,000 a year is being directed to the Partnership with an allocation of $10,625 a year to the Economic Development Work Group. A goal of both grants is to leverage the $2,075,000 received with matching resources and funds at 100%.

The Partnership also received generous sponsorship by the San Joaquin Valley Council of Governments for $117,000 for FY 09/10, as well as sponsorship by a variety of San Joaquin Valley partners for the 2009 Annual Summit “Serving the Valley. Shaping our Future.” It is anticipated that because both sponsorship initiatives achieved significant success, we can forecast continued donations of the same amount on an annual basis.