Tech Hire Partnership Grants

Funding Opportunity Number: FOA-ETA-16-01 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: GrantCategory of Funding Activity: Employment, Labor and TrainingCFDA Number: 17.268Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: DOL-ETAClosing Date: Mar 11, 2016Award Ceiling: $5,000,000Expected Number of Awards: 35Creation Date: Nov 17, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL, or the Department, or we), announces the availability of approximately $100,000,000 in grant funds for the TechHire partnership grant program. This grant program is designed to equip individuals with the skills they need through innovative approaches that can rapidly train workers for and connect them to well-paying, middle- and high-skilled, and high-growth jobs across a diversity of H-1B industries such as Information Technology (IT), healthcare, advanced manufacturing, financial services, and broadband. Projects funded by this grant program will help participants begin careers in H-1B occupations and industries which are in-demand and/or high growth in the area applicants are proposing to serve. On a limited basis, this grant program will also enable applicants to work with companies on increasing the skills of existing workers in lower-skilled jobs to move into more highly skilled positions requiring ...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Employment, Labor and Training Source Type: funding