Since 1994, The U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau and the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training have awarded 23 Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Act Technical Assistance Grants to 18 organizations nationwide. The grant recipients, listed below, have developed technical assistance projects to help employers, unions and apprenticeship programs increase women's access to and retention in nontraditional occupations. Click on their names to learn more about their WANTO grant project(s).

Visit Workplace Solutions' WANTO Grant Home Page to learn more about the grant projects and their outcomes. Also, review the WANTO Grant Products developed through the WANTO grant program.

Organization	Contact	Address	Phone
Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Employment for Women	Gay Kiesling	P.O. Box 2490 Renton, WA 98056	(425) 235-2212
Centro del Obrera Fronterizo for La Mujer Obrera	Cindy Arnold	2000 Texas Ave. El Paso, TX 79901	(915) 533-9710
Century Housing Corporation of Culver City's Women's Employment Program	Suatante (Coke) Anoa’i	300 Corporate Pt., Suite 500 Culver City, CA 90230	(310) 642-2013
Chicago Women in the Trades	Julie Kruse	1649 W. Adams, Suite 400 Chicago, IL 606012	(312) 942-1444
Home Builders Institute	Dennis Torbett	1090 Vermont Ave., NW Washington, DC 20005	(202) 371-0600
International Masonry Institute	Hazel Bradford	823 15th Street, NW Washington, DC 20005	(202) 383-3911
Mi Casa Resource Center	Alice Daly	571 Galapago St. Denver, CO 80204	(303) 455-5820
National Council of La Raza (NCLR)	Annette Baez	1111 19th St., NW Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20036	(202) 785-1670
Nontraditional Employment for Women	Martha Baker	243 W. 20th St. New York, NY 10011	(212) 627-6252
Northern New England Tradeswomen, Inc.	Tiffany Bluemle	189 North Main St., Unit 9 Barre, VT 05641	(802) 476-4040
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc.	Connie Ashbrook	P.O. Box 86620 Portland, OR 97286	(503) 281-0495 ext. 271
Resource Center for Women	Delores Benjamin	1301 Seminole Blvd., Suite 150 Largo, FL 53770	(727) 586-1110
STRIVE/East Harlem Employment Service, Inc.	Eric J. Arroyo	240 E. 123rd St. New York, NY 10035	(212) 987-2727
Tradeswomen of Purpose/ Women in Nontraditional Work, Inc. (TOP/WIN)	Rose Piccardi	2300 Alter Street Philadelphia, PA 19146	(215) 545-3700
The Urban Family Institute	Caitlin Wood Sklar Bernadette Gross	1400 16th St., NW, Suite 101 Washington, DC 20036-2266	(202) 234-5437
Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW)	Kim Pate Camille Inez	815 15th Street, NW Suite 916 Washington, DC 20005	(202) 638-3143
Women Helping Women, Inc.	Faye Turner	17515 Bamwood Houston, TX 77090	(310) 642-2013
Women in Building Trades	Pricilla Golding	555 Amory St. Jamaica Plain, MA 02130	(617) 524-3010
Women in Nontraditional Employment Roles	Ebony Shakoor-Akbar Lynn Shaw	451 Long Beach Blvd Suite 422 Long Beach, CA 90809	(562) 590-2266
Women's Opportunity and Resource Development	Sandi Hart	127 North Higgins Ave. Missoula, MT 59802	(406) 543-3550
Women's Resource Center of Grand Rapids	Sharon Caldwell-Newton	25 Sheldon SE Suite 220 Grand Rapids, MI 49503	(616) 458-5443
Women Unlimited	Mary Beth Paquette	71 Winthrop St. Augusta, ME 04330	(207) 623-7576
WomenVenture with Minnesota Teamsters Service Bureau	Tene Heidelberg	2324 University Ave. St. Paul, MN 55114	(651) 646-3808
Women Work!	Jill Miller	1625 K St. NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006	(202) 467-63463
YWCA of Greater Memphis	Patricia Thompson Shirley Greer	1044 Mississippi Blvd. Memphis, TN 38126	(901) 948-0493
YWCA of Omaha	Susan Raferty	222 South 29th St. Omaha, NE 68131	(402) 345-6555