OpportunityTitle: Training to Work 2-Adult Reentry
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Any non-profit organization  may apply for these grants, including faith and  community-based organizations. The applicant must propose to  provide services to only eligible participants (as defined in Section III.C.3and be located, in an urbanized area or urban cluster as those terms are  defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. The community served must also have both high-poverty and high-crime rates, as   High-poverty rate: communities with poverty rates of at least 30 percent (applicants must use American Community Survey data to show the average poverty rate of the various Census Tracts included in their target community).  For more information, see Section IV.B.3.   - High-crime rate: communities with felony crime rates within the targeted area that are higher than the felony crime rate in one or more adjoining communities (applicants must provide the strategy for determining the high-crime rate).  For more information, see Section IV.B.3.
Description: This Training to Work 2-Adult Reentry (T2W2) Solicitation for Grant Application (SGA) provides the opportunity for organizations to develop and implement career pathway programs in demand sectors and occupations for men and women who are at least 18 years old and who are enrolled in work release programs (WRPs). Additionally, grantees must provide a strategy to prioritize services to veterans that are in these WRPs. Career pathways are frameworks that help to define and map out a sequence of education, training and workforce skills training resulting in skilled workers that meet employers&#146; needs. Career pathways are an approach to linking and coordinating education and training services in ways that enable workers to attain such credentials, and ultimately, employment.ETA plans to award approximately 15 grants of up to $2,000,000 each, totaling up to approximately $30 million to serve male and female ex-offenders, referred to in this SGA as returning citizens, in WRPs as authorized by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and the Second Chance Act of 2007. The term &#147;returning citizens&#148; refers to formerly incarcerated individuals (i.e. ex-offenders). Priority must be given to those returning citizens that are veterans. Awards made under this announcement are subject to the availability of Federal funds. In the event that additional grant funds become available, ETA reserves the right to award additional grants from the applications submitted in this solicitation. Applicants may only submit one application in response to this SGA. Grantees may not expend more than $8,000 per participant. These grants have a performance period of operation of 39-months, which includes a planning period, implementation, and a follow-up period. Additionally, grants will be awarded to areas with high-poverty and high-crime rates, including promise zones that have a large proportion of returning citizens in these communities and typically experience higher rates of recidivism.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Email Grant Specialist
GrantorContactText: Mamie Williams &lt;br/&gt;Grants Management Specialist &lt;br/&gt;Phone 202-693-3341
CloseDateExplanation: The closing date for receipt of applications under this announcement is April 18, 2014.  Applications must be received no later than 4:00:00 p.m. Eastern Time.