Boost your business and team with the Retrain & Retain Grant

Eastern Iowa — Here’s an opportunity you don’t want to miss. IowaWORKS Mississippi Valley is now accepting applications for the highly impactful Retrain & Retain (R&R) Grant, offering up to 90% reimbursement on workforce training programs to eligible businesses.

Why It Matters

Drive Business Growth. Upgrading your team’s skills can boost productivity, enhance your competitive edge, and help your business thrive.

Invest in Your Team. Employees gain valuable credentials, transferable skills, increased morale, and a path toward higher pay and advancement.

Sustain Success Together. These grants are built to sustain quality employment within your company while helping you avoid layoffs.

What You Can Use the Funding For

Job-specific skills. Technical computer skills. Equipment operation. New manufacturing processes. Leadership, communication, and conflict resolution. Team management and supervisory training.

Training must lead to employees being retained or promoted and ideally, create opportunities for other workers to advance. Funds can also be used to avert a layoff.

Other vital advantages: applications are reviewed monthly, making it quick and efficient to get started.

Apply today and begin transforming your workforce from within.

Fill out the Grant Interest Form and explore eligibility details at mississippivalleyworkforce.org/grants

Contact Tyler Lanz at Tyler@mississippivalleyworkforce.org with any questions.

About the Mississippi Valley Workforce Development Board

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and a workforce partner, we serve as a central hub connecting job seekers, employers, and community partners across eight Iowa counties: Jackson, Clinton, Scott, Muscatine, Henry, Louisa, Des Moines, and Lee. We connect businesses and job seekers with tools and support through IowaWORKS Centers in Davenport and Burlington, as well as other partner locations throughout the region.

For more information and to apply, visit: mississippivalleyworkforce.org/grants Email: Tyler Lanz at tyler@mississippivalleyworkforce.org