• On Tuesday, September 9, Governor O'Malley visited Pompeian Olive Oil to highlight the EARN Maryland Program. Pompeian, founded in Baltimore in 1906, has hired 17 new employees in 2014 to date, and will host the first full EARN Maryland Manufacturing Boot Camp Partnership training beginning on October 13.
   
  Read more:
  Pompeian to Host EARN Maryland Manufacturing Boot Camp, MDBIZ News, October 1, 2014
  O'Malley to Discuss EARN Maryland Program, NBC Washington Channel 4 TV, September 9, 2014
  O’Malley to Discuss EARN Maryland program, Washington Post, September 9, 2014
  First EARN program to launch in Baltimore, The Daily Record, September 9, 2014 (subscription required)
   

What is EARN Maryland?

EARN Maryland is a new state-funded, competitive workforce development grant program that is industry-led, regional in focus and a proven strategy for helping businesses cultivate the skilled workforce they need to compete. It is flexible and innovative, designed to ensure that Maryland employers have the talent they need to compete and grow in an ever-changing 21st century economy.

EARN Maryland aims to:

• Address the demands of businesses by focusing intensively on the workforce needs of a specific industry sector over a sustained period.
   
• Address the needs of workers by creating formal career paths to good jobs, reducing barriers to employment, and sustaining or growing middle class jobs.
   
• Encourage mobility for Maryland's most hard-to-serve jobseekers through job readiness training that may include GED preparation, occupational skills development, literacy advancement, and transportation and child care components.

How Does EARN Maryland Work?

EARN Maryland invests in strategic industry partnerships from key economic sectors in every region. These partnerships will use the power of coordination across education, workforce and economic development initiatives to address the multiple needs of companies, starting with the training of skilled workers. Once formed, the partnerships will develop plans to train and educate workers - and place them in meaningful employment.

Get Involved!

• Employers and other potential Partner Organizations: Sign up for our exciting web portal, EARN MD CONNECT! - EARN MD CONNECT allows EARN Maryland Partnerships, Partners, and organizations interested in the program to find one another, share information, and collaborate within and between Partnerships. Organizations who work with potential job seekers are encouraged to sign up so that EARN Partnerships may contact you to develop a workforce pipeline.


• Individual job-seekers to receive announcement of upcoming EARN-funded training opportunities and recruitment events, SUBSCRIBE HERE. To explore additional employment opportunities, including positions hiring now, we encourage you to visit the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation's Maryland Workforce Exchange.

Information on Prior Grant Rounds

“EARN Maryland is industry led, endorsed by the Maryland Chamber of Commerce and is a proven strategy for providing Maryland’s employers with skilled workers. In Massachusetts, 100 percent of the employers participating in a similar industry-led initiative said that participation in a partnership like EARN Maryland--was indeed valuable. EARN Maryland’s strategic industry partnerships are also a proven strategy for workers. Among similar initiatives around the country, this approach led to skills advancement, career building opportunities and increased wages.”
---Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Secretary Leonard J. Howie III on EARN Maryland June 12, 2013.