EWR AirTrain: Community Benefits Programs

EWR Redevelopment supports workforce development and job creation, educational programming and business capacity building that benefits our local communities.

Workforce Development & Job Creation

Growing the Local Workforce

The PA Build Program provides certification training to residents from Essex, Union, and Hudson counties for union trade pre-apprenticeship opportunities

Creating Opportunities

The General Maintainers Program offers training and creates employment opportunities with the Port Authority for qualified candidates

Educational Programming

Investing in the Future

The Rutgers-PANYNJ Scholarship provides 10 students from Newark and Elizabeth with a full-tuition, four-year academic scholarship, with the added benefits of paid summer internships and post-graduation job placement

Inspiring the Next Generation

Through the Kean STEM Program, local middle and high-school students are offered a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses and learn about the Port Authority’s facilities and operations first-hand

Business Capacity Building

Preparing Small and Local Businesses to Succeed

Through the Business Capacity Building Program local and small businesses are prepared to better compete for work on AirTrain Newark Replacement Program and other Port Authority projects. From administrative support to business management best practices, participants of the program are informed on how to best position themselves to participate