Deadline: 28-May-24
The Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announces an opportunity for nonprofit organizations with experience addressing GBVH in the world of work and strong ties to underserved communities to participate in the Fostering Access, Rights and Equity (FARE) grant initiative.
The FARE grant program addresses the importance of workers having a safe, healthy, and accessible workplace, free from GBVH.
This program will allow award recipients to undertake projects to assist marginalized and underserved women workers who have been impacted by gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in the world of work, which includes activities that occur in the course of, linked with, or arising out of work. Grant recipients will undertake projects to prevent and respond to GBVH, which is pervasive across industries and deeply impacts the safety and economic security of women workers and survivors. Survivors of GBVH often suffer the loss of other employment rights and benefits. Grant recipients will address GBVH in the world of work by building awareness, connecting women to federal and state workplace rights and benefits, and implementing worker and survivor-driven strategies to shift workplace norms.
Selected awardees will work to reach women workers and survivors with a particular focus on underserved and marginalized women workers who are disproportionately impacted by GBVH, including but not limited to women of color, women with disabilities, justice system-impacted women, individuals who identify as LGBTQI+, marginalized workers in women-dominated sectors, ethnic minorities, immigrants, workers with limited English proficiency and workers experiencing substance abuse issues, homelessness, or chronic poverty. The grants will support organizations in their efforts to address GBVH in the world of work, which must include activities that:
- Build awareness through the dissemination of information and educational materials that are worker and survivor-centered;
- Implement worker and survivor-driven strategies that mitigate workplace risks and prevent workplace GBVH;
- Connect women workers to services, benefits, and/or legal assistance as needed, reasonable, and/or available; and
- Facilitate and encourage women workers and survivors to become focal points in their own communities through train-the-trainer, guided conversations, leadership circles or other activities.
Funding Information
- They expect availability of approximately $1,000,000 to fund approximately three to four grants. Awards made under this Announcement are subject to the availability of federal funds. If additional funds become available, they reserve the right to use such funds to select additional grantees from applications submitted in response to this Announcement.
- Applicants must apply for at least $250,000 in grant funds. Funding requests must not exceed $350,000.
- The period of performance is 18 months with an anticipated start date of 09/30/2024. This performance period includes all necessary implementation and start-up activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following organizations are eligible to apply:
- (Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education)
- (Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education)
- To be eligible for funds under this grant program, the applicant must be a nonprofit organization. Applicants should provide evidence in their project narratives that they are a community-based organization, worker group, union or other nonprofit organization with deep ties to underserved and marginalized women workers who are disproportionately impacted by GBVH. Applicants should also provide evidence that they have the expertise and ability to provide women workers with knowledge and tools to address and mitigate GBVH in the world of work using trauma[1]informed and survivor-centered approaches, and that they can quickly implement their proposed activities
For more information, visit Grants.gov.