Assistance Listing 84.346

The Department of Education funded Occupational and Employment Information State Grants for Career Resource Network projects through CFDA 84.346, with the most recent grant award issued on October 21, 2005.

This program is inactive. No grant awards have been disbursed in over 20 years. The portfolio comprises 59 Project Grants totaling $5.3 million in federal dollars obligated, with all funding provided by the Department of Education. Award activity peaked sharply in 2002, when 43 of the 59 awards were issued; prior and subsequent years saw minimal disbursement (1 award in 2001, 5 in 2003, 1 in 2004, and 9 in 2005).

The program funded state-level Career Resource Network projects designed to disseminate occupational and employment information. Recent awards funded grants to states for developing and maintaining career resource networks that would provide labor market and occupational information to career counselors, job seekers, and education and training providers. Representative awards include Project Grant V346A000014 ($270,465) and Project Grant V346A000022 ($203,680), both awarded in 2002 by the Department of Education. Typical award magnitudes ranged from roughly $71 thousand to $270 thousand, though a subset of awards in 2002 were issued at $2,290 each, suggesting possible administrative or partial-year allocations.

All funding was distributed as Project Grants; no Cooperative Agreements or other assistance types were used in this program.

No grant opportunities are currently posted for this program, and no opportunities have been advertised in the recent period. The program has not issued new awards since 2005.