The Department of Labor (DOL) Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program aims to meet future skilled workforce needs by investing in the development, implementation, and scaling of worker-centered sector strategy training programs that build equitable pathways to good infrastructure jobs.
This grant program aims to develop and diversify the talent pipeline necessary to support the infrastructure sectors: advanced manufacturing; information technology; and professional, scientific, & technical services occupations that support renewable energy, transportation, and broadband infrastructure sectors (These include occupations in the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors; broadband expansion and smart city grids; and electrical, industrial, and civil engineers and technicians who facilitate the design, construction, modernization, and maintenance of the nation’s infrastructure.)
Applicants must choose one of the following tracks for this grant program:
1) Development Track: Developing and Implementing Local/Regional Worker-Centered Sector Strategy Programs;
2) Scaling Track: Scaling Effective Worker-Centered Sector Strategy in Established Programs.
Both tracks require public-private partnerships to develop worker-centered sector strategies that incorporate the following core principles into their grant project design:
- Strategies for ensuring diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, both through the inclusion of targeted partners that are primarily minority-serving (such as institutions of higher education, community-based partnerships, and employer partners), as well as by prioritizing recruitment, training, & retention of a local workforce representative of the local community demographics, in particular historically marginalized, underserved, and underrepresented populations;
- Career pathways that lead to middle- to high-skilled employment; and
- Approaches for increasing job quality.
These partnerships will design quality training and work-based learning opportunities that support the renewable energy, transportation, and broadband infrastructure sectors.
**Development Track grants are not required to provide matching funds; Scaling Track grants require providing matching funds to the federal share to support sustainability and strong investment of the partnerships.
Institutional Limit: 1 Proposal
Internal Deadline: June 21, 2023 4:45 pm
