Connecticut General Statutes 32-7v – Workforce development program re grants to nonprofit organizations that employ individuals with intellectual disability. Application
(a)(1) The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development shall, within available resources, establish a workforce development program to provide grants to nonprofit organizations that employ individuals with intellectual disability, as defined in section 1-1g. Such grants shall be awarded for infrastructure expenditures, start-up costs or expansion costs.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 32-7v
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- intellectual disability: means a significant limitation in intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior that originated during the developmental period before eighteen years of age. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1g
(2) Any nonprofit organization that employs, at the time of application, a workforce of which not less than ten per cent consists of individuals with intellectual disability, as defined in section 1-1g, may apply for a grant under the program.
(3) Grants awarded pursuant to this section shall not exceed:
(A) Twenty-five thousand dollars per nonprofit organization employing a workforce of which between ten and thirty per cent, inclusive, consists of individuals with intellectual disability; and
(B) Seventy-five thousand dollars per nonprofit organization employing a workforce of which more than thirty per cent consists of individuals with intellectual disability.
(b) The Department of Economic and Community Development may enter into an agreement, pursuant to chapter 55a, with a person, firm, corporation or other entity to operate the program established pursuant to this section.
(c) The commissioner shall prescribe the form and manner of the application and such application procedure shall include a competitive award process.