{"id":3203,"date":"2019-02-18T19:15:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T19:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/?p=3203"},"modified":"2019-03-01T21:20:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:20:01","slug":"partners-with-business-grants-applications-due-february-28th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/2019\/02\/18\/partners-with-business-grants-applications-due-february-28th\/","title":{"rendered":"Partners with Business Grants: Applications Due Date Extended to March 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities (WI BPDD) is seeking five (5) grantees to partner with the WI BPDD and a project consultant to successfully implement the <strong>Partners with Business<\/strong> model of employment supports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partners with Business<\/strong> is a way to support workers with intellectual and developmental disabilities to achieve long-term success on the job by using a creative combination of natural and formal supports, both of which are provided by the employer. <strong>Partners with Business<\/strong> reduces reliance on job coach staff, builds the capacity of a school or vocational agency to increase the number of people supported in community jobs, empowers employers to provide supports, and saves scarce public resources.<\/p>\n<p>WI BPDD will provide mini-grants to five (5) entities.\u00a0 Eligible applicants include:\u00a0 public schools; care management organizations that administer Family Care or the Family Care Partnership Program; consultant agencies that assist enrollees of the IRIS self-directed services option; employment service providers for the state&#8217;s long-term care programs; and private businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Awardees will receive technical assistance and project funds of $4,999 (for each grant site) to successfully implement the Partners with Business support model with least three to five (3-5) individuals with intellectual\/developmental disabilities in competitive jobs.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more and apply, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-Partners-with-Business-RFA_deadline-extended.docx\">Partners with Business application<\/a>.\u00a0 Applications are due by <strong>5:00 pm on February 28, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities (WI BPDD) is seeking five (5) grantees to partner with the WI BPDD and a project consultant to successfully implement the Partners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3264,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3203\/revisions\/3264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}