Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants (United States)

Deadline: 2-Jun-22

The Employment and Training Administration is seeking applications for the Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants Program.

Purpose

• The purpose of this program is to address two inter-related needs:
  • to increase the capacity and responsiveness of community colleges to address identified equity gaps, and
  • to meet the skill development needs of employers in in-demand industries and career pathways, as well as the skill development needs of underserved and underrepresented workers.

Core Element

• Advancing Equity
• Accelerated Career Pathways
• Results-Driven Project Design
• Sustainable Systems Change

Funding Information

• Estimated Total Program Funding:         $45,000,000
• Award Ceiling:   $5,000,000
• Award Floor:     $1,500,000

Geographic Scope

• Applicants must identify the geographic scope of the proposed project.
• The Department is requiring community colleges to apply for this funding as a single institution, or as a state-focused consortium, a labor market-focused consortium, or an affinity-focused consortium.

Target Sectors and Occupations

• When selecting the career pathway(s) to be built or enhanced with grant funding, applicants must focus on those pathways that provide training to workers in in-demand industries, such as—but not limited to—advanced manufacturing, information technology, health care, clean energy, and others.
• Applicants also may consider how the development of and/or connection to entrepreneurial training to strengthen small business growth may support the chosen career pathways, in these and other industries, provided that the entrepreneurial training is aligned with grant goals and local economic needs.

Eligibility Criteria

• In keeping with the direction provided by Congress under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, the Department will award grants under this program to lead applicants that meet one of the following definitions:
  • Single Institution: A community college that is a public institution as defined in Section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act, and at which the associate degree is primarily the the highest degree awarded.
  • A single institution lead applicant must partner with one or more workforce development system partners, and required employer partner(s).
  • Together, the required and optional partners are referred to as a Strengthening Community Colleges (SCC) Training Grants Partnership (or SCC Partnership).
  • Institution Consortium: A lead applicant representing a consortium of institutions, as defined in Section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act.
  • The consortium lead must be a a community college that is a public institution of higher education as defined in Section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act, and at which the associate degree is primarily the the highest degree awarded, Consortium members may include community colleges and public and private, non-profit four-year institutions, as defined in Section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act.
  • Grants will be awarded to the lead applicant of the institution consortium, which will serve as the grantee and have overall fiscal and administrative responsibility for the grant.

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For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=336701