Portable Practical Educational Preparati

Portable Practical Educational Preparation, Inc. is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Tucson, Arizona, that delivers substance abuse prevention, youth workforce development, farmworker employment and training services, and K–12 educational programs to federal and state agencies as a prime grant recipient (35% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient flowing funding through state departments (65% of recent awards).

PPEP's customer concentration sits heavily with federal education and labor grant programs. The top five funding agencies account for 76% of recent awards, led by the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (29 awards), the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (17 awards), the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (10 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (9 awards), and the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (6 awards). Combined dollars obligated across all 94 awards total $99.6 million across fifteen distinct customer agencies, spanning prime grants and multiple sub-awards flowing through Arizona state departments of education and economic security.

As a prime recipient, PPEP holds four active grants anchoring its substance abuse prevention and workforce development work. The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded $481,955 on September 30, 2026, under the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.492) for the Partnerships for Success Building Resiliency Project, serving youth ages 10 to 20 in Pima County, Arizona through September 29, 2031. The Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration awarded $2.695 million on July 1, 2025, under the National Farmworker Jobs Program (CFDA 17.264) for comprehensive workforce development, occupational skills training, and housing assistance to migrant and seasonal farmworkers in Arizona through September 30, 2026. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded $125,000 on July 1, 2026, under the Drug-Free Communities Support Program (CFDA 93.276) to support the Amado Community Alliance, a rural substance use prevention coalition operating since February 2020 in Southeast Arizona, through June 30, 2031. PPEP also received a project grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration on September 30, 2024, for the Amado Stop Act Project (ASAP), a four-year underage drinking prevention initiative targeting youth ages 12 to 20 and their parents in rural Amado, Arizona, through September 29, 2028.

As a sub-recipient, PPEP flows multiple education and social-services grants through Arizona Department of Education (Title I, IDEA, Title II, Title III, Title IV-A, CTE, and Migrant Education programs) and Arizona Department of Economic Security (Community Services Block Grant, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), with additional sub-awards from Youthbuild Global, Inc. on housing rehabilitation and from Arizona Department of Education on Migrant Education Program staffing for PPEP's three technical education charter high schools in San Luis, Somerton, and Douglas, Arizona. Work is performed in Tucson and rural Pima County, Arizona, including service to the Tohono O'Odham Nation and Pascua Yaqui Tribe consistent with tribal sovereignty.

Activity has grown from two awards in 2022 to twenty-four in 2024, with eighteen awards in 2025 and six in 2026 year to date. Only one award faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating a strong and stable recompete posture through mid-2028. PPEP's capability portfolio centers on evidence-based substance abuse prevention, youth prevention leadership development, migrant and seasonal farmworker case management and occupational skills training, K–12 supplemental education services including English language acquisition and special education, and community coalition building in high-need rural and border-adjacent areas of Arizona.