Deadline: 1-Jul-22
The Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, announces the Fostering Access, Rights, and Education (FARE) grant program.
This funding opportunity will allow award recipients to undertake projects to assist marginalized and underserved women workers in understanding and accessing their employment rights, public services, and benefits. The grants will build on the successes of recent promising initiatives to enlist trusted messengers and community groups to reach working women, including but not limited to women of color, women with disabilities, justice-impacted women, individuals who identify as LGBTQ, marginalized workers in female-dominated sectors hard-hit by the pandemic, ethnic minorities, immigrants, workers with limited English proficiency, older adults, and workers experiencing intimate partner violence, substance abuse issues, homelessness, or chronic poverty.
Purpose
The primary purpose of these grants is to provide crucial outreach, education, and improved benefits access and must be used for:
- Providing outreach to women who are paid low wages at work, and otherwise marginalized and underserved.
- Disseminating educational materials through varied platforms, including social media, inperson or virtual events, brochures and leaflets, one-on-one consultations, and other outreach.
- Assisting women workers with navigating and calculating benefits.
- Connecting and referring women workers to additional services, benefits, and/or legal assistance as needed, reasonable, and/or available.
- Helping women to become focal points for rights, benefits, and assistance in their own communities (i.e., a train-the-trainer model for navigation).
- Collecting stories about how the grant activities have improved working women’s lives.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $350,000
- Award Floor: $250,000
- The period of performance is 18 months with an anticipated start date of 09/30/2022.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=340497
