Minnesota Training Partnership, Inc.

Minnesota Training Partnership, Inc., a nonprofit organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, operates exclusively as a subcontractor to federal primes and state grantees, delivering employer outreach, technical assistance, and workforce development services focused on expanding registered apprenticeships and increasing underrepresented-population participation in advanced manufacturing and agriculture sectors.

Minnesota Training Partnership operates entirely in the sub-recipient and subcontractor role. Across six federal awards tracked in the available data (October 2022 through May 2025), the vendor holds zero prime positions; all six awards are sub-awards either as a contract subcontractor to a nonprofit prime or as a grant sub-recipient to state workforce agencies. The combined obligated value across all awards stands at $1.1 million. Customer concentration sits with two federal agencies: the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (four awards) and the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (two awards), representing 100% of tracked federal volume.

The vendor's contract work routes through Jobs For The Future Inc., a national nonprofit prime. In May 2025, Minnesota Training Partnership subcontracted to provide employer outreach, recruitment, and technical assistance aimed at increasing registered apprenticeships (RAPs) and diversifying participation in advanced manufacturing and agriculture sectors. A prior May 2023 subcontract with the same prime involved technical assistance to employers in advanced manufacturing sector apprenticeship expansion. The vendor's grant footprint consists of four sub-awards routed through the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families and the Minnesota Department of Human Services, all supporting SNAP Employment and Training (SNAP E&T) programming at 50% effort levels, dated July 2024 and October 2022.

Service Contract Inventory data captures a single SCI record spanning FY2024, showing 0.8 FTEs delivered on a named subcontractor basis — a narrow slice that reflects only service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes the vendor's grant work, goods, and any sub-$150,000 service contracts. The SCI footprint underrepresents the vendor's true federal footprint, which is dominated by grant-recipient work with state workforce agencies.

Minnesota Training Partnership's positioning is that of a specialized sub-recipient and subcontractor focused on apprenticeship and workforce development in specific sectors, with sustained engagement through repeat subcontracting relationships (evidenced by the two-year span with Jobs For The Future and ongoing SNAP E&T sub-receipts) rather than direct federal prime awards.