Get $34M for Workforce Innovation & Business Growth
Summary
Small businesses and non-profits can secure funding to improve job seeker services and create more effective workforce development systems. This grant aims to boost employment outcomes and business growth through innovative, job-driven strategies.
Eligibility
Full Description
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will use approximately $34 million in Workforce Innovation Fund (WIF) grants to promote system reforms and innovations that facilitate cooperation across programs to improve employment outcomes, cost effectiveness, and delivery of customer-centered services to job seekers, youth and employers. Awarded grants will focus on Job-Driven system alignment and implementation of a fully integrated workforce development system. It is designed to complement other federal efforts such as the implementation of the President’s Job-Driven Training Agenda, Job-Driven National Emergency Grants (NEG), and previous rounds of WIF grants. Additional information on the President’s Job-Driven Training Agenda is available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/skills_report_072014_2.pdf.
Additional information on the WIF can be found at http://www.doleta.gov/workforce_innovation.