Employment Social Enterprise (ESE) Program Year 2024-25 (PY 24-25) is sponsored by California Employment Development Department. Funds programs that promote job training opportunities and transitional employment through social enterprise programs for hard-to-serve individuals.

Employment Social Enterprise (ESE) Program Year 2024-25 (PY 24-25) - California Grants Portal The ESE PY 24-25 grant competition solicits a second round of proposals to design, develop, and implement programs that will focus on the first step to transitioning participants into the workforce by placing individuals into employment, typically in a supported employment setting, to help them earn wages while building work experience, improving job skills as well as provide supportive services for California’s most vulnerable populations.

This initiative aims to design, develop, and implement programs that will promote job training opportunities and transitional employment through social enterprise programs for the hardest-to-serve individuals to provide economic self-sufficiency and life stability.

The ESE also seeks innovative projects that demonstrate effectiveness in providing jobs, support services, and on-the-job (OJT) training while earning revenue from delivering products and services that they reinvest in people.

By selling high-quality products and services and investing the money they make in their businesses and their people by providing good, paying jobs and vital support services that help their employees bust through barriers to employment.

To this end, the ESE will focus on the first step to transitioning participants into the workforce by placing individuals into employment, typically in a supported employment setting, to help them earn wages while building work experience, improving job skills, and providing supportive services and wrap-around support such as housing, access to childcare, mental health services, job coaching, and much more.

When employees are ready, ESEs will help them find and keep their next good job and continue building on their success. Applicants to the ESE program will serve the following special populations: disconnected young adults, justice-involved individuals, people with disabilities, long-term-unemployed individuals, older workers, and veterans.

This program will build on the success of the ESE program model and the ESE Program PY 22-23 grant as the first step to employment stability and success for the target populations as a priority program intervention.

The programs will also coordinate with the state efforts across multiple agencies and departments to increase access and retention of transitional employment through Social Enterprises (SE) to support recruitment, wrap-around support, case management, and job placement of the participants in the ESE program.

Applicants must demonstrate the ability to leverage a minimum of 20 percent of their budget with funds or services from other sources. The leverage needed for funds is based on the total grant funding requested. Applicants are encouraged to braid funds, leverage human capital, and utilize other resources to maximize the success of the project.

Leveraged resources can come from a variety of sources. Proposals must be received by 3 p. m.

PT on February 28, 2025. An informational webinar will be held on January 14, 2025, at 10 am PT. Preregistration is required for all participants.

Refer to the EDD’s Workforce Development Solicitation for Proposals website at https://edd. ca. gov/en/jobs_and_training/WDSFP_Workforce_Development_Solicitations_for_Proposals for the preregistration link.

To complete the preregistration, an applicant must fill out the pre-registration information. After successfully preregistering, a system-generated email will provide the webinar link. The EDD encourages applicants to submit a notice of intent to apply by February 4, 2025, at noon PT to WSBSFP3@edd.

ca. gov. Proposals will be accepted from Eligible applicants include ESE organizations that collaborate with one or more of the following: public workforce development boards; human service agencies; public and private non-profit organizations, or a community-based organizations (CBO). Individuals are not eligible to apply.

Applicants who were awarded ESE PY 23-24 funding may re-apply for funding. Applicants to the ESE Program PY 24-25 may serve disconnected young adults, justice-involved individuals, people with disabilities, long-term unemployed, older individuals, English Language Learners, and veterans in disadvantaged communities across the State of California.

The date (and time, where applicable) by which all applications must be submitted to the grantmaker. Time listed as “00:00” equates to midnight. Expected award announcement The date on which the grantor expects to announce the recipient(s) of the grant.

The length of time during which the grant money must be utilized. Total estimated available funding The total projected dollar amount of the grant. Expected number of awards A single grant opportunity may represent one or many awards.

Some grantors may know in advance the exact number of awards to be given. Others may indicate a range. Some may wish to and wait until the application period closes before determining how many awards to offer; in this case, a value of “Dependent” will display.

Estimated amount per award Grant opportunities representing multiple awards may offer awards in the same amount or in varied amounts. Some may wish to wait until the application period closes before determining per-award amounts; in this case, a value of “Dependent” will display. Letter of Intent Required?

Certain grants require that the recipient(s) provide a letter of intent. Requires Matched Funding? Certain grants require that the recipient(s) be able to fully or partially match the grant award amount with another funding source.

The funding source allocated to fund the grant. It may be either State or Federal (or a combination of both), and be tied to a specific piece of legislation, a proposition, or a bond number.

The Employment Development Department (EDD), on behalf of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, announces the availability of up to $10 million in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Governor’s discretionary funds for an Employment Social Enterprise Program ESE) Solicitation for Proposals (SFP). The manner in which the grant funding will be delivered to the awardee.

Funding methods include reimbursements (where the recipient spends out-of-pocket and is reimbursed by the grantor) and advances (where the recipient spends received grant funds directly). The EDD will contact with subrecipients through a Subgrant Agreement (contract). The EDD may request that the contracts incorporate changes to the original project proposals.

The awardees will officially enter into a contract with EDD to provide the services and serve the number of participants listed in the contract for the amount awarded. State agencies/departments recommend you read the full grant guidelines before applying. For questions about this grant, contact: Brandon Raveling, 1-916-891-9189, brandon.

raveling@edd. ca.

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