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We offer a variety of programs and services to help jobseekers, businesses, local units of government and others. You can navigate to the program you are looking for alphabetically below, or search for a specific program name and that program will be returned in a search results page for you.

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Description: The Border-Cities Enterprise Zone Program provides business tax credits to qualifying businesses in the Border-Cities Enterprise Zone cities of Breckenridge, Dilworth, East Grand Forks, Moorhead, and Ortonville.

Description: Listing of Business Development Specialists for the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.

Description: Our Business Services Representatives provide business solutions for finding and hiring new employees, retaining employees, accessing training resources and general human resource information.

Description: Forms and criteria. Annual reports. Program reports to the Legislature. Everything local governments and companies need to file mandatory yearly reports on the status of business subsidy agreements.

Description: The Clean Water Revolving Fund helps communities build or upgrade wastewater treatment plants to comply with discharge standards in the federal Clean Water Act.

Description: We provide books, newspapers, magazines and other printed materials in alternate formats for people who are blind, visually impaired, DeafBlind or who have other disabilities that make it difficult for them to read.

Description: The Contamination Cleanup and Investigation Grant Program helps communities pay for assessing and cleaning up contaminated sites for private or public redevelopment.

Description: The Credit Enhancement Program helps cities and counties reduce the costs of borrowing to build certain public facilities.

Description: Help for workers affected by layoffs and guidance for employers considering layoffs

Description: Through our Displaced Homemaker Program, we help people who have worked mainly in the home develop the marketable skills you'll need to find and maintain a job.

Description: The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority Drinking Water Revolving Fund helps communities build drinking water storage, treatment and distribution systems that comply with standards in the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Description: From employment counseling to job referrals and training, we offer a wide variety of specialized employment and training services to Minnesota veterans.

Description: The Greater Minnesota Business Development Infrastructure Grant Program helps stimulate new economic development, create new jobs and retains existing jobs through investments in public infrastructure.


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Description: The Minnesota Indian Business Loan Program supports the development of Indian-owned and operated businesses and promotes economic opportunities for Native American people throughout Minnesota. 

Description: Industry Specialists at the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development focus their expertise on businesses biosciences, medical devices and renewable energy.

Description: Minnesota's Job Opportunity Building Zones (JOBZ) program provides local and state tax exemptions to qualified companies that expand or relocate into targeted regions in Minnesota.

Description: Our Regional Labor Market Analysts are the state's experts on the latest labor market intelligence, economic conditions and trends.

Description: Whether the job is on or off the farm, our Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Program can help farm workers and the employers who hire them.  

Description: The Minnesota Reservist and Veteran Business Loan Program provides loans for existing small businesses that have an essential employee called to service in the military reserves for 180 days or longer and therefore suffer a substantial economic injury due to the employee’s absence, and start up business loans for recently service separated veterans.

Description: The Minnesota Cleanup Revolving Loan Program provides low-interest loans through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to clean up contaminated sites that can be returned to marketable use.

Description: The Minnesota Federal Bonding Service provides individual Fidelity Bonds to employers for new or current employees who may be denied coverage by commercial carriers. 

Description: The Minnesota Investment Fund provides grants to help add new workers and retain high-quality jobs on a statewide basis. The focus is on industrial, manufacturing and technology-related industries.

Description: A powerful collaboration with business and education to give workers new skills and opportunities.

Description: Export counseling and assistance. Education and training. Market and industry intelligence. International market research. Trade missions and trade shows. Protocol and the art of doing business across cultures.

Description: Minnesota WorkforceOne is a system used to track client activity in a variety of state-funded employment and training programs. This system is for staff and service providers.

Description: Through the Minnesota Youth Program, we provide short-term employment and training services to low-income and at-risk youth ages 14 to 21 in all 87 counties.


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Description: Employment and training programs for economically disadvantaged and at-risk youth.


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Description: The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority's Phosphorus Reduction Grant program provides grants to units of local government for the capital costs of wastewater treatment projects that will reduce the total discharge of phosphorus from the facility to one milligram per liter or less.

Description: The Positively Minnesota Marketing Partnership is an alliance of economic developers, utilities, private firms and the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.


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Description: The Public Facilities Authority provides financing programs and expertise to help communities build public infrastructure that preserves the environment, protects public health, and promotes economic growth.

Description: Radio Talking Book is a free, closed-circuit news and information service that broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week to thousands of subscribers throughout Minnesota and the nation.

Description: The Redevelopment Grant Program helps communities with the costs of redeveloping blighted industrial, residential, or commercial sites and putting land back into productive use.

Description: The SEED Capital Investment Program provides tax incentives for investing in innovative business located in the Minnesota border cities of Breckenridge, Dilworth, East Grand Forks, Moorhead, and Ortonville. 

Description: Through our Senior Community Service Program, we help people age 55 and older who meet eligibility guidelines get the on-the-job training and current work experience they need through paid community service assignments.

Description: Minnesota's Shovel-Ready Certified Site program assures that sites have had all of the planning, zoning, surveys, title work, environmental studies, soils analysis and public infrastructure engineering completed prior to the site being offered for sale.

Description: The Small Business Assistance Office provides in-depth information, including a series of business guidebooks, for startups and established businesses.

Description: Our statewide network of Small Business Development Centers provide expertise and guidance to small business owners.

Description: The Small Business Development Loan Program provides loans for business expansions that result in the creation of new jobs.

Description: Minnesota's Small Cities Development Program helps cities and counties with funding for housing, infrastructure and commercial rehabilitation projects that benefit people of low and moderate incomes.

Description: The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority's Small Community Wastewater Treatment Program provides funding to help communities replace non-complying septic systems and straight pipes with new individual or cluster subsurface sewage treatment systems.

Description: Employment and career services. Training and technology. Braille, radio, talking books and news. All to help people who are blind and visually impaired live and work as independently as possible.

Description: Ticket to Work is a Social Security program. The goal of the program is to assist people receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits based on disability obtain employment and earn enough money to end the need for cash benefits.

Description: The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority's Total Maximum Daily Load Grant program provides units of local government with grants to assist with the cost of wastewater treatment or stormwater projects.

Description: Our Tourism Business Septic Tank Replacement Program makes low-interest financing available to existing tourism-related businesses that provide overnight lodging and need to replace a failed septic system.

Description: The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program can provide services to eligible workers who have lost their job or had hours cutback due to federal trade policy.

Description: The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority's Transportation Revolving Loan Fund provides financing to state, local and other government entities for transportation projects approved by the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

Description: The Unemployment Insurance Program provides temporary financial help to people who have lost their jobs or had their work hours greatly reduced through no fault of their own. 

Description: Overview on business taxes - what's due to whom and when.

Description: The Urban Initiative Loan Program assists minority-owned and -operated businesses and other companies that create jobs in low-income areas of the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Description: Our Minnesota Veterans Licensure and Certification Program helps veterans convert vocational and technical skills they learned in the military into civilian credentials in a variety of occupations

Description: Minnesota's nationally recognized Transition Assistance Program workshops helps veterans make informed choices about education and employment and makes their transition back into work and home life smoother, more predictable, and more productive.

Description: View job listing on MinnesotaWorks.net, our online jobs database. We also provide links to other employment web sites.

Description: Counseling, training and job skills. Independent living services. Extended employment and long-term job supports. Services to help people with disabilities prepare for, find and keep a job.

Description: The Minnesota Public Facilities Authority's Wastewater Infrastructure Fund provides supplemental grants and loans to help communities build wastewater treatment projects that address existing environmental or public health problems.

Description: Get expert job-search and career-planning guidance. Use computers, Internet and other equipment to conduct your job search. Signup for workshops. Meet potential employers. Join networking groups and job clubs.


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Description: The state of Minnesota's planning and implementation of the federal Workforce Investment Act.

Description: The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Youth Formula Grant provides economically disadvantaged teenagers and young adults between the ages of 14 and 21 with year-round employment and training services.

Description: Information for DEED staff, partner organizations and contractors who provide employment-related services that help clients make the transition from public assistance to work.

Description: The Youthbuild program provides specialized training for youth and young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 who are at risk of not completing or have not completed their high school education. Participants are trained in construction and other fields in the building trades, basic academic skills, and leadership.

Description: Reception and Resource Area Certification Program (RRACP)