US Department of Labor
| Grant Title | Upcoming or Most Recent Deadline | Funding Potential | Match | Period of Performance | Eligible Applicants | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities Initiative (WORC) | 6/13/2023 | $150,000 - $1,500,000 | No | 36 months; Start Date of 1 October 2023 | State, County, City, Township, Special District Government, Regional Organization, State or Local Workforce Development Board, Independent School District, Institution of Higher Education, Public/Indian Housing Organization, Nonprofit Organization | Create economic mobility, address historic inequities for marginalized communities of color, rural areas, and other underserved and underrepresented communities, and produce high-quality employment outcomes for workers who live or work in the Appalachian, Delta, and Northern Border regions, enabling them to remain and thrive in these communities. |
| YouthBuild Program | 2/7/2023 | $700,000 - $1,500,000 | 25% | 40 months | Public or private non-profit agencies; including rural, urban, or Native American/Tribal entities that have previously served opportunity youth in a YouthBuild or other similar program. | The purpose of this program is to fund organizations to provide a pre-apprenticeship program model that encompasses education, occupational skills training, leadership development, and high-quality post-program placement opportunities to opportunity youth. YouthBuild is a community-based alternative education program for youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who left high school prior to graduation that also have other risk factors - including being an adjudicated youth, youth aging out of foster care, youth with disabilities, migrant farmworker youth, youth experiencing housing instability, and other disadvantaged youth populations. The YouthBuild program simultaneously addresses multiple core issues important to youth in low-income communities: affordable housing, leadership development, education, and employment opportunities in in-demand industries and apprenticeship pathways. YouthBuild programs serve as the connection point to vital services for participants. Key aspects of the YouthBuild service delivery model include meaningful partnership and collaboration with the public workforce development system, education and human services systems, and labor and industry partners. DOL expects applicants funded through this solicitation to have well-established partnerships in place prior to grant award. |
| Nursing Expansion Grant Program | January 6, 2023, 11:59PM EST | Track 1: $2-$6M Track 2: $1-$3M | 20% | The period of performance is 60 months with an anticipated start date of 02/01/2023. This performance period includes all necessary implementation and start-up activities | Nonprofit healthcare organizations; Nonprofit trade, industry, or employer associations; Labor Unions; Education/ Training Providers including IHEs; Workforce Development Entities; Native American tribal governments | The purpose of the DOL Nursing Expansion Grant Program is to address bottlenecks in training the United States (U.S.) nursing workforce and to expand and diversify the pipeline of qualified nursing professionals who can fill quality jobs in healthcare through two training tracks: 1) Nurse Education Professional Track; and 2) Nursing Career Pathways Track. |
| Fostering Access, Rights, and Education (FARE) | Deadline July 1, 2022, 11:59PM EST | $250,000 - $350,000 | No | 18 months | Nonprofits with or without a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education | The purpose of this program is to enable community groups and emissaries focused on assisting underserved and marginalized low-income women workers in not only the awareness and understanding of but also increasing accessibility to their employment rights, public services, and benefits. In this FOA, the term “women” is intended in the most inclusive manner, encompassing transgender and non-binary persons. |
| Apprenticeship Building America (ABA) Grant Program | Deadline April 25, 2022 | $1,000,000 - $8,000,000 | No | 48 months | Private institutions of higher educationl; County governments; Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification); Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized); Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education (IHEs); City or township governments; Public and State controlled institutions of higher education -Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education -State governments | The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications for the ABA grant program to support a coordinated, national investment strategy that aims to strengthen and modernize the Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP) system centered on equity and promote Registered Apprenticeship as a workforce development solution. The ABA grant program builds on the Departments previous and ongoing efforts to expand and modernize Registered Apprenticeship through expanding the number of programs and apprentices, diversifying the industries that utilize Registered Apprenticeship, and increasing access to and completion of RAPs for underrepresented populations and underserved communities. The ABA grant program will support, through a coordinated national investment strategy, a strengthened and modernized RAP system centered on equity that advances the Administrations goals and priorities for an inclusive economic recovery by connecting more Americans to good jobs and careers, especially in high growth, in-demand industry sectors. |
| Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants Program (SCC) | Deadline October 14, 2022 | $1.6M - $5M | No | 48 months | A single community college that is a public institution or Institution Consortium including: State, Labor Market, or Affinity Consortiums | The purpose of this program is to address two inter-related needs: 1) to increase the capacity and responsiveness of community colleges to address identified equity gaps, and 2) to meet the skill development needs of employers in in-demand industries and career pathways, as well as the skill development needs of marginalized and underrepresented workers. These grants should build the capacity of community colleges to equitably increase access to employment through educational and economic opportunity, by focusing on specific industry sectors and career pathways that will lead to skill development, rapid reskilling, and employment in quality jobs. These efforts will yield sustainable systems-level changes in education and training through collaboration between community colleges, employers and the public workforce development system that align education and training, work experiences, and industry-recognized credentials that lead to career growth. |
| Susan Harwood Training Grants | July 26, 2021 August 23, 2021 | $75,000 - $200,000 | No | 12 months | Nonprofits, institutions of higher education, employer associations, tribal organizations | The grant program offers opportunities for nonprofit organizations to compete annually for funding so they may develop and conduct training and educational programs for small business employers and workers on the recognition, avoidance, and prevention of occupational safety and health hazards in their workplaces; and to inform workers of their rights and employers of their responsibilities under the OSH Act. Targeted Topic Training grant applicants must propose to develop and conduct training addressing one of the OSHA-specified training topics for an audience identified in this funding opportunity. |
| CAREER | 23-Aug-21 | Up to $3,000,000 | No | 2 Years | States or outlying areas, or a consortium of States or outlying areas; Local Workforce Development Boards (WDBs), or a consortium of WDBs; Entities eligible for funding through the Indian and Native American program in WIOA Section 166(c); Other entities determined to be appropriate by the Governor of the State or outlying area involved; Other entities, such as nonprofit organizations or unions, that demonstrate to the Secretary the capability to respond effectively to circumstances relating to particular dislocations per the FOA guidelines. | Help reemploy dislocated workers most affected by the economic and employment fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular those from historically marginalized communities or groups, and those who have been unemployed for an extended period of time or who have exhausted Unemployment Insurance (UI)or other Pandemic Unemployment Insurance programs. Funds for these DWGs will support and enhance comprehensive employment services and the digitalization of services to unemployed jobseekers as well as the data systems necessary to connect the unemployed to reemployment. |
| RETAIN | Deadline: 7/23/2018 for one-time Demonstration Projects | $2,500,000 (Phase 1) | No | 30 months | State Departments of Labor, State Workforce Development Agencies | The purpose of this program is to fund organizations to provide a pre-apprenticeship program model that encompasses education, occupational skills training, leadership development, and high-quality post-program placement opportunities to opportunity youth. YouthBuild is a community-based alternative education program for youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who left high school prior to graduation that also have other risk factors - including being an adjudicated youth, youth aging out of foster care, youth with disabilities, migrant farmworker youth, youth experiencing housing instability, and other disadvantaged youth populations. The YouthBuild program simultaneously addresses multiple core issues important to youth in low-income communities: affordable housing, leadership development, education, and employment opportunities in in-demand industries and apprenticeship pathways. YouthBuild programs serve as the connection point to vital services for participants. Key aspects of the YouthBuild service delivery model include meaningful partnership and collaboration with the public workforce development system, education and human services systems, and labor and industry partners. DOL expects applicants funded through this solicitation to have well-established partnerships in place prior to grant award. |
| H1B - One Workforce Grant Program | Last NOFO was in November 2020 | $500,000 - $1,000,000 | No | 48 months | Businesses, nonprofit organizations, workforce intermediaries, community colleges, community-based organizations, for-profit educational and training institutions, entities involved in administering WIOA, economic development agencies | Develop replicable, comprehensive workforce strategies for preparing the workforce for middle- to high-skilled H-1B occupations within the information technology, advanced manufacturing, and transportation sectors. |
| Job Corps Scholars | Deadline January 2020 | $1,186,900 | No | 39 months | Two-year community colleges, two- and four-year historically Black colleges and tribal colleges | Explore new and innovative ways to deliver education and career training that creates a pipeline of talent, serving low income young adults ages of 16-24 who have barriers to education and employment. Grantees must enroll eligible youth and provide them with intensive counseling services to support and facilitate each student's employment and career success. Grantees provide services throughout studentÃs participation in the 12-month career technical training component and the up to 12-month employment placement period following separation. |
| America's Promise Job-Driven Grant Program | Last NOFO was in August 2016 | $1,000,000 - $6,000,000 | No | 48 months | Institutions of Higher Education, nonprofit organizations | Strengthen the pipeline of skilled workers to expand a regionÃs middle- to high-skilled workforce within one or more prioritized industry sector(s), thereby creating economic opportunities for America's workforce to gain the necessary skills to fill in-demand jobs and increasing the long-term competitiveness of a region. Provide individuals the opportunity to get high-quality, tuition free education and training that leads to in-demand and industry-recognized credentials and degrees. |
| Young Adult Reentry Partnership (YARP) | 4/20/2020 | $4,500,000 | No | 42 months | Community or faith-based intermediary organizations working in at least 3 communities across 2 states, entities eligible for WIOA Section 166 (E.g., tribal organizations) | Partner organizations that provide reentry services with community colleges to provide education and training services to improve the employment outcomes for young adults involved in the criminal justice system. Young adults served under this grant are between the ages of 18 and 24. |
| Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) | Deadline June 4, 2021 | $350,000 - $750,000 | No | 24 months | Community-based organizations | Provide technical assistance (TA) to employers and labor unions to encourage employment of women in Registered Apprenticeship and nontraditional occupations (A/NTO.) TA provided will prepare employers and labor unions to successfully recruit, mentor, train, and retain women in A/NTO and expand women's employment opportunities and labor force participation. |
