Federal Employment Labor and Training Grants

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL, or the Department, or we), announces the availability of approximately $6,500,000 in grant funds authorized by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 167 for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP), Housing Services. The period of performance is 51 months and starts July 1, 2024, and ends September 30, 2028. The NFJP model aims to connect eligible migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents to permanent housing that is owner-occupied, or occupied on a permanent, year-round basis (notwithstanding ownership). The permanent housing must be the persons primary residence to which they return to at the end of the work or training day. Additionally, the NFJP model aims to provide temporary housing that is not owner-occupied to eligible migrant and seasonal farmworkers whose employment requires occasional travel outside their normal commuting area. The Department will award at least 70 percent of the funds for permanent housing.

This program aims to provide technical assistance (TA) to employers (which may include public sector entities) and labor unions in the United States and its territories to encourage employment of women in both apprenticeable occupations and nontraditional occupations (A/NTO), specifically in the following ways:Developing (establishing, expanding, and/or enhancing) pre-apprenticeship, youth apprenticeship, Registered Apprenticeship (as defined in Appendix B "Acronyms and Definitions"), or other nontraditional skills training programs designed to prepare women for careers in A/NTO;Providing ongoing orientations or other resources for employers, unions, and workers on creating a successful environment for women in A/NTO; and/orSetting up support groups, facilitating networks, and/or providing supportive services (as defined in section IV.E.3) for women in A/NTO to improve their retention.Applicants may propose to provide technical assistance to support womens participation and success in the full range of industries in which women are historically underrepresented or where women are disproportionately concentrated in the lower-wage occupations. Such industries include, but are not limited to; advanced manufacturing, construction, energy, health care, information technology, finance, and transportation. Applicants with experience working with or as an equity intermediary are encouraged to apply, as well as applicants with a proposed focus on expanding outreach/recruitment to historically underrepresented communities, including but not limited to women of color and women with disabilities, women at or below the federal poverty line, formerly incarcerated women, immigrant women, transgender women, and women who live in rural geographic areas. Applicants that plan to accelerate local or state government agency efforts to increase womens inclusion and equity in projects funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law or BIL), CHIPS and Science Act, Inflation Reduction Act, or other federal funding are also encouraged to apply. For the purposes of this FOA, the term "woman" or "women" is to be interpreted in the most inclusive manner with participant eligibility to be inclusive of transgender women and non-binary individuals.To be eligible for funds under this grant program, an applicant must be a community-based organization (CBO). In awarding grants, the Department will only fund applications that meet the following criteria per the WANTO Act legislation;Demonstrate experience preparing women to gain employment in A/NTO;Demonstrate experience working with the business community to prepare them to place women in A/NTO;Have tradeswomen or women in nontraditional occupations as active members of the organization, as either employees or board members; andHave experience delivering TA specifically as defined above, including developing (establishing, expanding and/or enhancing) pre-apprenticeship, apprenticeship, or other nontraditional skills training programs designed to prepare women for careers in A/NTO; providing ongoing orientations or other resources for employers, unions, and workers on creating a successful environment for women in A/NTO; and setting up support groups, facilitating networks, and/or providing supportive services for women in A/NTO to improve their retention.Questions regarding this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Forecast may be emailed to [email protected]; however, please note there is limited information that may be shared with the public during the forecast period until the FOA is open for applications. We encourage prospective applicants and interested parties to use the Grants.gov subscription option to register for future updates provided for this particular announcement.

This Annual Program Statement (APS) offers USAID Operating Units a mechanism to facilitate assistance awards to local and non-traditional partners for innovative, adaptive, and locally led development approaches. OUs may issue addenda under this umbrella to solicit, co-create, and fund a wide range of flexible and innovative approaches to locally led development related to their specific priorities, objectives, and programs. The APS aims to advance USAIDs capability to work with local partners, to learn from these engagements, and to share this learning broadly. INTERESTED APPLICANTS - PLEASE READ: This Locally Led Development APS is not a Request for Applications or a Request for Proposals, and this APS does not serve as a general request for locally led development concepts. Do not email concepts to [email protected] or submit concepts via grants.gov, as they will not be accepted. Interested Applicants must respond to specific documents that share USAID priorities in a specific country(ies) called addenda that may be issued throughout the year on grants.gov. These addenda, when added, can be found under Related Documents on this page. Please visit this page periodically for opportunities that may be relevant to your country and focus areas. Please see the attachment for further detailed information. This APS was last updated April 26, 2024, with Amendment 1 - 7200AA19APS00007 Locally Led Development Annual Program Statement (APS) 2024-4-26

This grant provides funding to higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations to train future professionals in vocational rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities, addressing personnel shortages in the field.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to organizations implementing strategies to prevent diabetes and improve health equity for populations at risk, focusing on statewide, local, or multisectoral approaches.

This grant provides funding to Indian Tribes and authorized tribal organizations to develop tailored AmeriCorps programs that address community needs and enhance local capacity for future service initiatives.

This funding provides financial support to organizations that help young farmworkers, aged 14 to 24, gain job skills, educational opportunities, and career readiness to improve their economic self-sufficiency.

Questions regarding this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Forecast may be emailed to [email protected]; however, please note there is limited information that may be shared with the public, as this FOA is currently under development. We encourage prospective applicants and interested parties to use the Grants.gov subscription option to register for future updates provided for this particular FOA.

The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Office of Assistance Coordination (NEA/AC) and Embassy Tunis Assistance Unit seek proposals to address the social and economic hurdles facing repatriated Tunisian migrants voluntarily or forcibly returning to their home country. The proposals should focus on women and youth who encounter barriers to education, social support systems, and employment.

The Public Diplomacy (PD) Section of the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs (OPA) invites Palestinian and American not-for-profit non-governmental organizations (NGOs), associations, non-profit higher education institutions, or non-profit social enterprises based in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Gaza to submit proposals to design and implement a program to bridge the frequently-noted skills gap of Palestinian new college graduates, by fostering partnerships between universities, faculty advisors, syndicates, professional associations, and other private and public sectors institutions to team up in creating and implementing a viable strategy to prepare the workforce of the future by developing a sustainable capability and educational institutions for continuous upskilling and modernize selected universities to support their desire to become world-class institutions.. This program must be designed to implement activities that advance the applicants goals and the U.S. OPA-PD mission, including but not limited to:1) Building Palestinian institutions, both governmental and non-governmental, that effectively address the needs and aspirations of the Palestinian people;2) Building a prosperous Palestinian economy, led by a thriving private sector, that provides equitable and inclusive economic opportunities and improves daily life for Palestinians. Education systems around the world are united in their awareness to the need to adapt and update their education programs to better prepare students for the future of work. Worldwide, there is a vital need to ensure young people at schools, universities and vocational education and training institutions are equipped with the skills and competences necessary to support the drive towards more sustainable, and inclusive economies. In the Palestinian territories and East Jerusalem, there are many additional factors that make preparing the students for a successful transition to work, even more challenging. High unemployment rates and general economic stagnancy contribute to political and social existing instability. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics - even before the most recent escalation in conflict decimated the Gazan economy and severely slowed the West Bank and Jerusalem economies - 27.3% of all Palestinians were unemployed. The proportion was higher among women (47%), Gazans (50%), and youth (45%). The investment climate does notattract foreign investors or encourage local private sector initiatives. Startups and small businessesare a successful driver of economic growth and job creation worldwide, but a thriving smallbusiness sector requires a better regulatory enabling environment, and a lobar forced with skillsthat match market needs. Youth are not finishing school, or university, with the skills andknowledge they need to be successful in the market. Culturally, families push their children towarduniversity and specifically, scientific subjects; however, the market cannot support the numbers ofgraduates that Palestinian universities are graduating. Vocational training is underutilized. Theresult is significant underemployment at the beginning of many peoples careers. Overviewplanning for labor market requirements is not provided on a national scale, and neither thegovernment nor the universities are engaging with students and families to encourage studyingnon-saturated fields. At the opposite end of the spectrum, difficult economic situation is oftendriving young people to take a low wage, non-skilled jobs in order to support their families, ratherthan enroll in even a short-term training course that could provide better long-term opportunities.On the other hand, innovation ecosystem is emerging but fragmented and disconnected. Whilemost universities have labs, makerspaces, incubation centers, entrepreneurship centers, theirinterconnectedness and connection with the private sector and investors, which forms the actualinnovation ecosystem, has not yet coalesced, and higher education research and developmentprograms are very limited. Without additional support, it is difficult for universities and othervarious players to successfully build the national innovation capacity and propel entrepreneurstowards greater success.Both the public and private sectors see the critical need to strengthen and build a workforce capableof working in a space filled with the crucial components of the countrys journey to self-reliance.In addition, workforce training needs are changing rapidly, and are in response to the emergingFourth Industrial Revolution and overall worldwide conversion to a digital landscape.Accordingly, the purpose of this program is to improve university curriculum and learningprocesses through well established and sustained partnerships with the private sector, consequentlycreating ways to ensure the workforce is trained and prepared for the new and evolvingtechnologies and modern markets needs.Applications should provide a detailed manifest of activities the implementing organization willconduct under the grant. The proposed program must include substantive engagement withAmerican people, institutions, ideas, and/or ideals in order to improve American-Palestinianrelations and create greater opportunities for mutually beneficial partnership and cooperation.As the activity name implies, a core principle is to seek, identify, develop and support partnershipsto achieve the program objectives. OPA encourages applicants to strategically engage with a widerange of partners from the public and private sectors who can support, advance, expand oraccelerate the programPriority Region: West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.Program Objectives: Working primarily at the local level and using an evidence-based approach, all proposed projects must aim to advance the OPA-PD mission goals stated above, contain a substantive American element, and achieve at least two of the following specific objectives:1. Universities develop and begin to implement a strategic plan to upgrade their education models to better prepare students for the labor market as evidenced by a new co-curricular program, designed by faculty to facilitate better access to employment for their students.2. Palestinian faculty and staff gain new knowledge, skills, and resources to design and implement curricular and co-curricular programs that better support their students' future employment and labor market needs.3. Development and implementation of integrated courses and academic programs; identify, develop, and implement appropriate and affordable technology platforms; and improve curriculum and pedagogy through universal design for learning.4. Improved research and innovation capacity: development and implementation of comprehensive university plans to improve faculty and student research and innovation which may include strategic partnerships with U.S. higher education institutions. This objective should also explore and support opportunities for the selected universities to generate and apply research to address local and national challenges. For any of the above objectives to be achieved, the Applicant must engage the private sector and facilitate effective collaboration among multiple stakeholders.

The curriculum for Leadership Essentials for Sustainability was developed in 2017 as an instructor-led training (ILT). This 16-hour site-based program has been requested through NICs technical assistance, and specifically focuses on the soft skills of leadership and behavioral attributes that are a necessity for leading others. The topics can be customized based on the needs of the agency and may include building teams that work; strategic delegation; ethics and integrity; leading and managing change; institutional culture; and effective communication. The topics. The training allows participants with the opportunity to start thinking about their leadership philosophy, and how they might enhance their leadership aptitudes such as empathy, trust, and active listening. Additionally, by developing and practicing competency-based leadership skills, they will be on the path to becoming their organizations future leaders.

The CDLPI grant provides federal funding to State Driver Licensing Agencies, local governments, nonprofits, educational institutions, and other eligible organizations to implement projects that improve the administration, enforcement, data quality, and compliance of the commercial driver’s license program—including system upgrades, fraud prevention, regulatory compliance, testing improvements, and initiatives supporting the safe and timely licensing of qualified commercial drivers in line with FMCSA requirements.

The American-Made Electronics Scrap Recycling Advancement Prize (E-SCRAP) is a $3.95 million challenge sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO). This three-phase prize aims to stimulate innovative approaches that reduce the costs and environmental impact of critical material recovery from electronic scrap (e-scrap). The program aligns with the DOE's mission to advance energy technology and reduce environmental impact, specifically targeting the challenges within the e-scrap recycling value chain. The target beneficiaries of the E-SCRAP prize are individuals, private entities (for-profits and nonprofits), nonfederal government entities (states, counties, tribes, and municipalities), and academic institutions working in waste collection and management, dismantling and sorting, separation, refining, validation, and material supply. The impact goals are to increase the domestic supply of critical materials from e-scrap, enhance material circularity, and reduce the environmental footprint associated with current recycling processes. The program prioritizes innovative approaches, processes, or technologies that optimize and implement critical material separation and recovery from e-scrap. This includes building partnerships across the recycling value chain, developing and demonstrating innovations, addressing technical, supply chain, or logistical hurdles, and enhancing supply chains to accelerate connectivity between various stages of recycling. Areas of interest include innovations for electronic scrap (communication devices, home appliances, medical/office equipment) and the recovery of critical materials such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, lithium, nickel, and rare earth elements. Expected outcomes include the development and demonstration of new technologies that lead to more efficient and environmentally friendly e-scrap recycling processes. Measurable results will be seen in increased rates of critical material recovery, reduced costs, and a decrease in environmental impact. Competitor teams can win up to $800,000 in cash prizes and $150,000 in national laboratory analysis support. The prize’s strategic priorities are to act as a catalyst for change, fostering innovation and collaboration to strengthen the domestic supply chain of critical materials, thereby contributing to clean energy initiatives and a more circular economy.

This grant provides funding to state workforce agencies across the U.S. to improve and modernize their workforce data systems, enhancing connections between education, training, and employment services to better support job seekers, especially those facing employment barriers.

This grant provides funding to state and territorial agencies to support part-time community service training for low-income older adults, helping them gain employment and reduce poverty.

This grant provides funding to organizations that support women entrepreneurs in Cameroon, helping them improve their businesses and access U.S. export markets through training and resources.

This funding opportunity is designed for alumni of U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs in Georgia to implement innovative community projects that promote democracy, economic prosperity, and cultural ties with the West.

This grant provides funding to organizations and educational institutions to develop innovative training programs that improve the skills of rehabilitation professionals, helping them better support individuals with disabilities in securing quality employment.

FY 2024 Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization Grant

In 2018, The National Park Service (NPS) was authorized under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018: Public Law 115-141, Section 115, the Department of the Interior (DOI) to enter into cooperative agreements with, private nonprofit organizations designated by the Secretary of Labor under Title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 to utilize the talents of older Americans in programs authorized by other provisions of law administered by the Secretary and consistent with such provisions of law. The Experienced Services Program is intended to augment the capacity of parks and provide needed subject-matter expertise to address short-term needs, unanticipated workloads, and new initiatives.The Experienced Services Program provides a cost-effective recruitment opportunity to obtain the services of non-Federal, experienced workers aged 55 and older. Through agreements with eligible nonprofit organizations, the NPS will be able to recruit and utilize the services of these workers on a project-specific basis to enhance its capacity to achieve its mission, goals, and objectives. Skilled and experienced older Americans, including veterans, will have the opportunity to put their talents and experience to use on a part-time to full-time basis. Enrollment in the program will not impact the retirement benefits of retired federal employees. The use of private non-profit organizations aligns with many of the Department of the Interior goals for fostering better relationships with the communities it serves and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of NPS programs.