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WANTO Grantees
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc.
Portland, OR
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. has received two WANTO grants.
Please click the grant year below to learn more about each project and its outcomes and products.
WANTO 5th Year Grant—Awarded September 1998 WANTO 6th Year Grant—Awarded September 1999
WANTO 5th Year Grant—Awarded September 1998
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc., in collaboration with public and private partners, provided technical assistance to help 50 employers and labor unions make commitments to increase the participation and retention of women in apprenticeship and other nontraditional occupations. The collaboration focused on providing support services to lower-income women returning to work from welfare and residing in the Portland/Multnomah County Enterprise Community and Metro Portland region (that includes the inner city neighborhoods of North and Northeast Portland and downtown commercial core). The support services included a “Ready to Earn Fund” to allow some flexibility in services.
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. anticipated placing 100 women in apprenticeship and nontraditional occupations in telecommunications, public utilities, transportation and the skilled construction building trades.
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. was organized in 1989 by a small group of tradeswomen. Today, it is a statewide organization of 120 dues-paying tradeswomen. Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. is a member of WOW's National Workforce Network.
The grant has been extended to December 2000.
WANTO 6th Year Grant—Awarded September 1999
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. in collaboration with its public and private partners will build on its earlier WANTO grant to provide technical assistance to employers and labor unions by working to place 50 women in pathway jobs to apprenticeship and other nontraditional occupations and further their entrance into apprenticeship and upward careers paths in other nontraditional occupations.
Scheduled project completion date: December 2000.
Project Contact
Connie Ashbrook, Executive Director
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc.
Post Office Box 86620
Portland, OR 97286
Phone (503) 281-0495 x271
Fax (503) 281-4216
Email landowne@teleport.com
Web site www.tradeswomen.net