Deadline: 4-Aug-22
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven has launched an open call for the Career Pathways for Inclusive Growth to support inclusive career pathways in local economic growth sectors that provide quality jobs (these are jobs that pay a living wage, offer meaningful benefits, predictable schedules, stable income, and worker engagement).
The Foundation have a specific focus on supporting organizations that work with the following populations:
- BIPOC Populations (Black, Indigenous, and people of color)
- Women
- Returning Citizens
- Immigrants
- Other underserved populations
Aims
Through this Request for Proposals (RFP), the Foundation aims to accomplish the following:
- Invest in education and training efforts with employers and education/training institutions that prepare residents for quality jobs in middle-to-high skill occupations in local economic growth sectors.
- Support initiatives that connect job seekers to employment that have clear opportunities for career advancement over time.
- Fund efforts that have a strong employer partnerships where job seekers will likely be hired.
- Fund efforts that encourage employers in economic growth sectors to hire job seekers who successfully complete skills based training and certification programs.
- Fund efforts to support people of color, women, immigrants, and/or returning citizens in the Greater New Haven and/or Valley regions and other traditionally underserved populations.
- Connect public school students, particularly Black and brown students who are underrepresented in STEM fields, to promising careers in the biomedical/bioscience fields.
Focus Areas
The Foundation will accept grant proposals that focus on one or more of the following areas:
- Wraparound Supports – Funding to provide wrap around supports for low-income workers and job seekers that are needed for them to successfully participate in and complete skills based training/short-term vocational training programs for careers in industry growth sectors, and obtain and maintain quality jobs.
- Bioscience/Biomedical Careers – Occupations in bioscience/biomedical careers currently require a minimum of a four-year college degree and experiential learning beyond traditional classroom and laboratory environment. The Foundation will consider funding requests for programs supporting underrepresented students in STEM fields to enter bioscience/biomedical careers.
Eligibility Criteria
- While each grant process has its own criteria, all applicants must be defined as tax-exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) or any applicable statute of the Internal Revenue code. While grants are occasionally made to governmental agencies, local nonprofits receive priority.
- Requests will be considered from groups that do not have tax-exemption status, provided that they have a fiscal agent with the appropriate tax status.
- In projects involving a partnership of agencies, a single agency with the appropriate tax status and financial management capacity must assume the role of lead organization.
- Individuals are not eligible for grants except for participants in the New Haven Neighborhood Leadership Program and applicants to academic scholarships.
- You must provide services within our 20 town area: Ansonia, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, North Branford, North Haven, West Haven, Oxford, New Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Milford, Seymour, Shelton, Wallingford, Orange, and Woodbridge.
For more information, visit https://www.cfgnh.org/strengthening-nonprofits/about-our-grantmaking/grants-to-apply-for/career-pathways