The Skills Development Fund (SDF) Training Stream offers funding to organizations for innovative projects that address challenges to hiring, training, or retaining workers, including apprentices, to drive Ontario's economic growth.
The SDF Training Stream supports:
- projects that address the labour shortage and stimulate growth in key sectors of Ontario’s economy
- projects that will increase Ontario's long-term economic competitive advantage by creating a sustainable and resilient workforce
- projects helping people with prior involvement in the criminal justice system, racialized persons and Indigenous peoples, those with disabilities, and others facing barriers to employment
Eligible organizations
The following organizations are eligible to apply to the SDF Training Stream:
- employers in Ontario, other than the Educational Organizations listed below
- minister-approved non-college apprenticeship training delivery agents (TDAs)
- non-profit organizations, including Indigenous Band offices and Indigenous Skills and Employment Training agreement holders
- professional/industry/employer associations
- trade unions or union affiliated organizations
- municipalities, District Social Services Administration Boards, Consolidated Municipal Service Managers, hospitals
The following organizations are eligible to apply to the SDF Training Stream as a co-applicant with one or more of the organizations above:
- district school boards
- publicly assisted colleges, universities or Indigenous Institutes in Ontario
- career colleges registered under the Ontario Career Colleges Act, 2005
Read the application guideline for full details of the eligibility requirements. This guideline reflects feedback from previous rounds.
For more details see: https://www.ontario.ca/page/skills-development-fund where you can find the application link on July 29, 2024.
