Introducing Talent City Vaughan

March 14, 2022 12:00 p.m.
​Financial support is available for local talent training and development

The City of Vaughan is investing in local talent! A new program – Talent City Vaughan – has been created to offer financial support to external organizations that provide opportunities for residents to enhance their skillsets. Micro-grants of up to $10,000 will be available to regional not-for-profit community and social service organizations delivering training to Vaughan talent. Applications will be accepted starting Friday, April 1. 

Talent City Vaughan will help residents access and undertake opportunities to enhance skills and learn new ones, with an overall aim to support workforce development throughout the city of Vaughan. Community and social service organizations do not have to be Vaughan-based, but the services they provide for the program must target participation from Vaughan residents, employees and students directly. 

The City of Vaughan invites all regional not-for-profit community and social service organizations to apply. The Economic Prosperity Task Force will establish a panel of three members from the existing task force to review the applications and select the recipients. 

Interested applicants can learn more about the application process and program criteria and ask questions about their specific applications at an upcoming Talent City Vaughan information session on Thursday, March 24 at 10 a.m. or Tuesday, April 5 at 2 p.m. To receive details or an invitation to these sessions, complete a registration form at vaughanbusiness.ca/TalentCityVaughan. 

The Talent City Vaughan program is part of the Advantage Vaughan initiative. On Feb. 15, Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua and Members of Council took the next step in supporting the business community by endorsing Advantage Vaughan, Phase 3 of the City’s economic development response to COVID-19. 

Advantage Vaughan proposes a series of programs to support four strategic pillars of the economy, including:

  • local small business owners and entrepreneurs.
  • Vaughan’s residents who make up the city’s talent base.
  • Vaughan’s local organizations which animate the community and foster local destination development opportunities.
  • community branding and marketing to demonstrate the advantages of doing business in Vaughan. 

Advantage Vaughan fosters economic prosperity, investment and social capital through funding opportunities for the business community and training opportunities for local talent development – key priorities outlined in the City’s 2018-2022 Term of Council Service Excellence Strategic Plan. The plan builds off the momentum of the Vaughan Business Action Plan, approved in March 2020 as the first phase in the response efforts, and the Vaughan Business Resilience Plan, which began in June 2020. 

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