The purpose of the critical sectors job quality grant program is to expand job quality in the care, climate resiliency, and hospitality sectors and to support transformative efforts to improve job…

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the WIOA Dislocated Worker National Reserve Demonstration Grants program (CFDA 17.280), aims to expand job quality and availability of good jobs in the care, climate resiliency, and hospitality sectors. The $398,657 award, granted on September 30, 2024, will support industry-led, worker-centered sector strategies built through labor-management partnerships. The projects will focus on designing training models and providing training that promotes equity, job quality, and worker voice, particularly for the benefit of historically marginalized populations and communities. The grant will fund both short-term capacity-building planning grants and longer-term implementation grants to directly impact job quality within the chosen sectors. The primary awardee is the Workforce Development Board of Herkimer, Madison and Oneida Counties, Inc., a non-profit organization in Upstate New York, which may engage in sub-recipient activities to carry out the project.

Activities

Projects under this announcement will fund both short-term capacity-building planning grants to support initial convening and strategizing for future impacts as well as longer-term implementation grants that will use existing sector partnerships to directly impact job quality within the chosen sector.deliverables: n a planning grant intended beneficiaries: this grant program intends to serve participants who are new entrants to the workforce, dislocated workers, or incumbent workers. Within these eligible participant categories, this grant program intends to serve historically marginalized populations and communities within the local or regional economic area served by the grant, especially those that are reflective of the local and regional economic area being served, including women, people of color, justice-involved individuals, individuals with disabilities, or other populations who will benefit from improved job quality and career advancement opportunities within the target critical sectors.

Subrecipient activities

Subrecipient activities are allowable under this award to carryout project activities.