RESOURCE TYPE

Pathway Home 6 Grants
Administering Agency: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
Closing Date for Applications: Mar 14, 2025 – Applications must be submitted electronically no later than 11:59 pm Eastern Time.
Estimated Total Program Funding: $25,000,000
Award Ceiling: $4,000,000; Award Floor: $500,000
Geographic Scope: National
TOPICS: Career Pathways , Community Engagement , Funding Opportunities , Training
Description: With meaningful employment secured, formerly incarcerated people can fully integrate into their communities more successfully and avoid relapse. To help remove barriers to employment the U.S. Department of Labor has announced the availability of $25 million in funding to provide training and employment services to incarcerated individuals before their release from state correctional facilities, or county or local jails.
Pathway Home 6 Grants are designed to help eliminate the time gap between release from prison and enrollment into a workforce development reentry program that leads to skills-based employment. They will expand eligibility to include private non-profit organizations, with a requirement to commit to employing one full-time project manager dedicated to managing the grant.

State Apprenticeship Expansion Formula grants
Administering Agency: US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
Closing Date for Applications: Mar 18, 2025 – applications must be submitted electronically no later than 11:59 pm Eastern Time.
Estimated Total Program Funding: $85,000,000
Award Ceiling: $5,000,000; Award Floor: $75,000
Geographic Scope: National
TOPICS: Apprenticeship , Career Pathways , Funding Opportunities
This Funding Opportunity Announcement solicits applications for the Sate Apprenticeship Expansion Formula (SAEF) grant program. This FOA supports a coordinated, national investment strategy that aims to strengthen and modernize the Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP) system. The SAEF grant program is intended to better support State capacity and State planning to create new RAPs while also driving system innovation and reform, the Department intends to provide, on an on-going basis, annual funding to all States that apply, as well as an opportunity for States to apply for additional competitive funding.

Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies (ARISE)
Administering Agency: Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)
Closing Date for Applications: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis
Funding Range: $73.5M available total
Geographic Scope: Regional
Description: ARISE is an ARC initiative that aims to drive large-scale, regional economic transformation through multistate, collaborative projects across Appalachia.
With the additional funding provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, ARC launched ARISE to strengthen Appalachian business and industry, and to grow and support the development of new opportunities across multiple states.
Posted January 20, 2023 to TWC Resource Center. Please refer to the link below for the most up to date information from the funder.