Technology career advancement mobilityfunding request: 500,000CONGRESSIONAL sponsor: senator chuck schumer and senator kirsten gillibrandrequested period of performance: 24 monthsproject location:…

The Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (doing business as BSRC Weatherization), a non-profit community development corporation in Brooklyn, New York. The grant was awarded under the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending program (CFDA 17.289), which aims to fund projects specified by Congress.

The grant funds a 24-month project to provide technology career skills training, interview preparation, recruitment, and ongoing social-emotional support services for underemployed college graduates, individuals with technical training, and young adults planning to enter the workforce directly after high school. The goal is to equip these underserved job seekers with software engineering skills that can lead to jobs paying approximately $100,000 per year, helping to close the racial wealth gap. The project is expected to help clients earn diplomas upon completing the training program and secure competitive software engineering roles.

Activities

Job skills training in tech careers interview preparation recruitment of candidates andongoing social emotional supports for job seekers once they complete skills training.

Expected outcomes

Clients who successfully complete the training program earn a diploma upon their completion and land competitive jobs in software engineering roles paying on average 100,000 YR. Moreover, for more vulnerable job seekers, we expect them to learn skills that will upgrade their technologyintended beneficiaries: underemployed college grads clients who have technical training and other young adults who plan to work immediately after high school.