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Notice of Funding Opportunity: Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program
Administering Agency: U.S. Department of Labor, Veterans’ Employment and Training Service
Closing Date for Applications: March 30, 2023 – Applications must be submitted electronically no later than 11:59 pm Eastern Time.
Estimated Total Program Funding: $25,000,000
Award Ceiling: $500,000
Geographic Scope: National
Description: The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a $25 million funding opportunity for organizations to provide training and employment services to help veterans combat homelessness.
Administered by the department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service, Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program awards seek to reduce homelessness among veterans by assisting them in overcoming obstacles to reenter the workforce successfully.
Please click here for information about the 2022 funding round, including a list of grantees.
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Pathway Home 4 Grants
Administering Agency: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
Closing Date for Applications: April 21, 2023 – Applications must be submitted electronically no later than 11:59 pm Eastern Time.
Estimated Total Program Funding: $48,000,000
Award Ceiling: $4,000,000
Geographic Scope: National
Description: With meaningful employment secured, formerly incarcerated people can fully integrate into their communities more successfully and avoid relapse. To help remove barriers to employment the U.S. Department of Labor has announced the availability of $48 million in funding to provide training and employment services to incarcerated individuals before their release from state correctional facilities, or county or local jails.
Pathway Home 4 Grants are designed to help eliminate the time gap between release from prison and enrollment into a workforce development reentry program that leads to skills-based employment. They will expand eligibility to include private non-profit organizations, with a requirement to commit to employing one full-time project manager dedicated to managing the grant. These grants will help advance equity for people who face significant barriers to labor market reentry, including incarcerated women and people from communities of color.
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Workforce Pathways for Youth
Administering Agency: US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
Closing Date for Applications: May 19, 2023 – applications must be submitted electronically no later than 11:59 pm Eastern Time.
Estimated Total Program Funding: $15,000,000
Award Ceiling: $2,000,000
Geographic Scope: National
Description: Workforce Pathways for Youth demonstration grants support national out-of-school time (OST) organizations that serve historically underserved and marginalized youth ages 14 to 21. These grants will place an emphasis on age-appropriate workforce readiness programming to expand job training and workforce pathways for youth living in rural areas, including soft skill development, career exploration, job readiness and certification, and workbased learning opportunities and other work experiences, such as summer jobs, year-round job opportunities, and pre-apprenticeships and Registered Apprenticeships. Funding will also support partnerships between workforce development boards and youth-serving out-of-school time organizations in order to scale up a coordinated and systemic approach to work and learning opportunities for youth across the country.
Posted March 21, 2023 to TWC Resource Center. Please refer to the link below for the most up to date information from the funder.
Notice of Funding Opportunity: State Apprenticeship Expansion Formula grant program
Administering Agency: US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
Closing Date for Applications: May 1, 2023 – applications must be submitted electronically no later than 11:59 pm Eastern Time.
Estimated Total Program Funding: $85,000,000
Award Ceiling: $6,000,000
Geographic Scope: National
This Funding Opportunity Announcement solicits applications for the Sate Apprenticeship Expansion Formula (SAEF) grant program. This FOA supports a coordinated, national investment strategy that aims to strengthen and modernize the Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP) system. The SAEF grant program is intended to better support State capacity and State planning to create new RAPs while also driving system innovation and reform, the Department intends to provide, on an on-going basis, annual funding to all States that apply, as well as an opportunity for States to apply for additional competitive funding.
Posted March 21, 2023 to TWC Resource Center. Please refer to the link below for the most up to date information from the funder.
Notice of Funding Opportunity: CA Apprenticeship Innovation Funding (AIF)
Administering Agency: State of California Department of Industrial Relations
Closing Date for Applications: May 11, 2023 at 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Estimated Total Funding: $55,000,000 in FY 2022-2023
Geographic Scope: State of California
The Apprenticeship Innovation Funding (AIF) is a new funding source in the state of California as of 2022 for new and innovative apprenticeship programs, defined as apprenticeships associated with the Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeships (IACA). The AIF aims to support IACA apprenticeship program sponsors to sustain and scale their programs and train apprentices.
Posted March 21, 2023 to TWC Resource Center. Please refer to the link below for the most up to date information from the funder.
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies (ARISE)
Administering Agency: Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
Closing Date for Applications: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis
Funding Range: $73.5M available total
Geographic Scope: Regional
Description: ARISE is an ARC initiative that aims to drive large-scale, regional economic transformation through multistate, collaborative projects across Appalachia.
With the additional funding provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, ARC launched ARISE to strengthen Appalachian business and industry, and to grow and support the development of new opportunities across multiple states.
Posted January 20, 2023 to TWC Resource Center. Please refer to the link below for the most up to date information from the funder.
Notice of Funding Opportunity: DOL Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program (Forecasted Opportunity)
Administering Agency: US Department of Labor
This is forecasted opportunity. The estimated Estimated Post Date is Feb. 22, 2023
Closing Date for Applications: April 23, 2023, 11:59 pm Eastern Time
Funding Range: Estimated Total Program Funding: $80,000,000 — Award Ceiling: $5,000,000 — Award Floor: $500,000
Geographic Scope: National
Description: The purpose of the DOL Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program is to fund public-private partnerships to develop, strengthen, and scale promising and evidence-based training models in H-1B industries and occupations critical to meeting the goals of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and to maximize the impact of these investments.
Posted January 20, 2023 to TWC Resource Center. Please refer to the link below for the most up to date information from the funder.
Notice of Funding Opportunity: Low or No Emission and Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Programs FY2023
Administering Agency: Federal Transit Administration
Closing Date for Applications:
Geographic Scope: National
Total Program Funding: $1,221,350,117
Posted January 31, 2023 to TWC Resource Center. Please refer to the link below for the most up to date information from the funder.
The purpose of the Low-No Program is to support the transition of the nation’s transit fleet to the lowest polluting and most energy efficient transit vehicles. The Low-No Program provides funding to state and local governmental authorities for the purchase or lease of zero-emission and low-emission transit buses, including acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities.
The purpose of the Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program is to assist in the financing of buses and bus facilities capital projects, including replacing, rehabilitating, purchasing or leasing buses or related equipment, and rehabilitating, purchasing, constructing or leasing bus-related facilities.
Additionally, recipients are permitted to use up to 0.5 percent of their requested grant award for workforce development activities eligible under federal public transportation law (49 U.S.C. 5314(b)) and an additional 0.5 percent for costs associated with training at the National Transit Institute. For applicants proposing projects related to zero-emission vehicles for either program, 5 percent of the requested federal award must be used for workforce development activities.