Private Industry Council Of Westmoreland/ Fayette, Inc.

Private Industry Council Of Westmoreland/Fayette, Inc., doing business as Education And Technology Institute, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit recipient of federal grants and sub-grants that delivers early childhood education, workforce development, and child nutrition services across Westmoreland and Fayette counties, Pennsylvania, operating as a prime grantee on Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Head Start and Early Head Start awards and as a sub-recipient on federal education and workforce programs flowing through Pennsylvania state agencies.

The organization, established in 1983, operates primarily in the grant space (75% of recent awards are sub-awards; 25% are prime grants). Its federal footprint concentrates heavily on two customer agencies: the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (49 awards, dominantly Child and Adult Care Food Program reimbursements and commodity cash-value payments flowing through Pennsylvania Department of Education sub-grants) and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (17 awards combined, representing both prime Head Start and Early Head Start grants and sub-recipient awards). Recent prime grant activity includes a $9.672929 million Head Start award from HHS Administration for Children and Families (CFDA 93.600) for a five-year period through June 30, 2031, and a $1.458762 million Early Head Start award (CFDA 93.600) running through August 31, 2031, both continuing prior multi-year Head Start funding to the organization. A $200,000 Rural Business Development Grant from the Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service (CFDA 10.351) ran from June 2022 through June 2024, supporting rural business and economic development services in Pennsylvania.

Sub-recipient work routes overwhelmingly through Pennsylvania Department of Education, with recurring monthly or bi-monthly reimbursements for Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) meal service and commodity cash-value payments. Sub-recipient programs also include 21st Century Community Learning Centers funding (providing academic enrichment and out-of-school activities in high-poverty and low-performing schools) and Department of Labor youth workforce development grants flowing through Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. A single contract sub-award appears in the footprint: a February 2024 IGF IDIQ task order on fatherhood program services.

Activity has accelerated significantly — five awards in 2022, two in 2023, twelve in 2024, twenty in 2025, and twenty-four in 2026 — reflecting expanded sub-recipient engagement with Pennsylvania state agencies and the recent prime HHS Head Start recompete awards. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $326 million. Only one award faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete pressure. The organization competes as a nonprofit recipient in federal and state grant and sub-grant programs rather than as a federal contractor on IDIQs or GWACs, with its federal engagement anchored to early childhood education, child nutrition, community learning centers, and workforce training for economically disadvantaged populations in rural and post-industrial Pennsylvania communities.