Workforce Development Grants

Wisconsin Fast Forward Grants is sponsored by Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD). The Wisconsin Fast Forward Grants program provides funding for customized occupational training for unemployed, underemployed, and incumbent workers across all industry sectors. These grants aim to reimburse the costs of training that qualifies workers for full-time positions, higher-level roles, or increased wages.

Youth Opportunities Program (YOP) is a grant from the Missouri Department of Economic Development that funds nonprofit organizations running positive youth development and crime prevention projects. The program allocates state tax credits to approved organizations, enabling them to secure community contributions for eligible projects including internships, apprenticeships, adopt-a-school initiatives, mentorship programs, and substance abuse prevention. Contributors to approved projects receive 70% tax credits for monetary donations and wages paid to youth interns, and 30% tax credits for property or equipment donations. Eligible applicants are Missouri nonprofits serving disadvantaged youth. The CY2027 application cycle opens in December 2026.

Aviation Industry Support Grants is a funding opportunity from the Federal Aviation Administration providing financial assistance to nonprofits, foundations, and institutions supporting the U.S. aviation industry. The program is administered through Grants.gov under the FAA Aircraft Pilots Workforce Development Grant Program (FON NG-AWP-25-001) and targets workforce development, education, and outreach efforts that strengthen the aviation pipeline. Applications are accepted from eligible U.S. nonprofits and educational institutions. The deadline for this cycle is December 1, 2026, with approximately nine awards expected.

Growing the Clean Energy Workforce – Electric Vehicles (GCEW-EV) Request for Applications (RFA) is sponsored by New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) Office of Just Energy Transition. Provides funding to eligible organizations to expand or create training or pre-apprenticeship programs in EV repair, maintenance, and charging infrastructure, alongside wraparound services for participants (with a focus on individuals from disadvantaged communities).

Future Works Grant is sponsored by Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I). This initiative strengthens workforce development services for new or expanding businesses. Awarded Local Workforce Development Boards (LWDBs) will collaborate with employers and stakeholders to build a skilled talent pipeline, support job quality, and help businesses meet early workforce needs.

Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) Program: Field Initiated Projects is sponsored by Administration for Community Living (ACL), National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). This program aims to generate new knowledge through research or to develop methods, products, procedures, or technologies to maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family/caregiver support, and economic self-sufficiency of peopl…

Veterans' Trust Fund (VTF) Grant Program is sponsored by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA). The Veterans' Trust Fund (VTF) Grant Program provides competitive funding to Veterans' service organizations (VSOs) with 501(c)(19) status and non-profit organizations with 501(c)(3) status that have a mission of serving Pennsylvania veterans. Funding priorities for the 2027-28 grant year include expanded programming & direct services, mental health & behavioral health, transportation, and employment. The grant cycle is open from November 2, 2026, until December 18, 2026.

Healthcare/Behavioral Health HUB Grants (Massachusetts) is sponsored by Commonwealth Corporation. These grants invest in regional partnerships to deliver training, credentialing, and employment services to connect new talent to in-demand roles and upskill existing talent in the healthcare and behavioral health industries. The goal is to address persistent workforce shortages across Massachusetts.

AFRI Education and Workforce Development Program is sponsored by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). This program supports projects that strengthen the pipeline of future professionals in the food and agricultural sciences, with a focus on education, training, and workforce capacity building. While primarily for the U.S., it can be relevant for collaborations.

USDA AFRI Education and Workforce Development Grants is sponsored by USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). This funding opportunity supports projects that strengthen the pipeline of future professionals in the food and agricultural sciences, with a focus on education, training, and workforce capacity building. This can include non-formal youth education in food and agriculture.

International Affairs Fellowship is sponsored by Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). This fellowship is for mid-career professionals to work in a setting substantially different from their current employment, with proposed placements in the U.S. government or at New York or Washington, D.C.-based international organizations. For federal government and U.S. military applicants, a research proposal on a foreign policy-relevant issue is required.

Climatetech Pathmaker Grants is sponsored by Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC). These grants expand access to relevant training for careers in the climatetech industry and address employer workforce needs. It supports short-term, industry-aligned training programs for high-demand occupations in energy storage and power generation, particularly for individuals from Environmentally Burdened or low-income neighborhoods.

Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining) is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program aims to prepare, nurture, and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) to enable and transform fundamental science and engineering research and education. It calls for innovative, scalable training, education, and curriculum/instructional materials to address emerging needs and bottlenecks in the S&E research workforce development.

This program seeks to prepare, nurture, and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) to enable and potentially transform fundamental science and engineering (S&E) research and education and contribute to the Nation's overall economic competitiveness and security. The goals of this solicitation are to (i) ensure broad adoption of CI tools, methods, and resources by the research community in order to catalyze major research advances and to enhance researchers’ abilities to lead the development of new CI, and (ii) integrate core literacy and discipline-appropriate advanced skills in advanced CI as well as computational and data-driven methods for advancing fundamental research, into the Nation’s undergraduate and graduate educational curriculum/instructional materials. Proposals responding to this solicitation may target one or both solicitation goals. For the purpose of this solicitation, advanced CI is broadly defined as the set of resources, tools, methods, and services for advanced computation, large-scale data handling and analytics, and networking and security for large-scale systems that collectively enable potentially transformative fundamental S&E research and education. This solicitation calls for innovative, scalable training, education, and curriculum/instructional materials—targeting one or more of the solicitation goals—to address emerging needs and unresolved bottlenecks in the S&E research workforce development, from the postsecondary level to active researchers to CI professionals. The funded activities, spanning targeted, multidisciplinary communities, should lead to transformative changes in the state of research workforce preparedness for advanced CI-enabled research in the short- and long-term. This solicitation also seeks to broaden CI access and adoption by (i) increasing the adoption of advanced CI and computational and data-driven methods to a broader range of S&E disciplines and institutions and (ii) effectively utilizing individual capabilities. Proposals from, and in partnership with, the aforementioned communities are especially encouraged. There are two project classes as defined below: Pilot Projects: up to $300,000 total budget with durations up to two years; and Implementation Projects: Small (with total budgets of up to $500,000) or Medium (with total budgets of up to $1,000,000) for durations of up to four years. Section II. Program Description provides a more complete description of the project classes. Section V.A. Proposal Preparation Instructions describes the proposal elements required for the various project classes in order to address the suitable set of solicitation-specific review criteria. The CyberTraining program is led by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and has participation from other NSF directorates/divisions, as described in Section II. Program Description, Programmatic Areas of Interest. Not all directorates/divisions are participating at the same level, and some have specific research and education priorities. The appropriate contact for the CyberTraining program in any directorate/division is the Cognizant Program Officer (PO) for the respective directorate/division/office/program listed below. All projects are expected to clearly articulate how they will address important community needs and provide resources that will be widely available to and usable by the research community. Prospective principal investigators (PIs) are strongly encouraged to contact the Cognizant Program Officers in CISE/OAC and in the participating directorate/division relevant to the proposal to ascertain whether the focus and budget of their proposed activities are appropriate for this solicitation. Such consultations should be completed at least one month in advance of the submission deadline. PIs should include the names of the Cognizant Program Officers consulted in a Single Copy Document as described in Section V.A. Proposal Preparation Instructions. The intent of the CyberTraining program is to encourage collaboration between CI and S&E domain disciplines. (For this purpose, units of CISE other than OAC are considered domain disciplines.) To ensure relevance to community needs and to facilitate adoption, those proposals of interest to one or more domain divisions must include at least one PI/co-PI with expertise relevant to the targeted research discipline. All proposals shall include at least one PI/co-PI with expertise relevant to OAC. Prospective PIs contemplating submissions that primarily target communities relevant to directorates/divisions that are not participating in this solicitation are directed to instead explore the education and workforce development programs of the respective directorates/divisions. Funding Opportunity Number: 23-520. Assistance Listing: 47.041,47.049,47.050,47.075,47.076. Funding Instrument: G. Category: ST. Award Amount: Up to $1M per award.

AFRL/AFOSR Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 University Center for High-Speed Aerothermoelasticity is sponsored by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). This program supports a U.S. university-led team to establish a center for studying high-speed fluid mechanics, thermal transport, and structural mechanics. The center will integrate computational simulation, theoretical modeling, and ground experimentation to investigate coupled fluid, thermal, and structural physics relevant to high-supersonic and hypersonic flight.

DoD Cyber Service Academy (DoD CSA) is sponsored by Department of Defense (DoD). This scholarship program funds 1 to 5 years of education for U.S. citizens willing to work for the Department of Defense as civilian employees after graduation. It aims to develop the talent pipeline in cybersecurity for national security.

Workforce Development Grant Program (Nebraska) is sponsored by Nebraska Department of Labor. The Workforce Development Program Cash Fund was established to promote workforce development efforts in Nebraska. The Commissioner of Labor will award grants for projects that support these efforts, aligning with Governor Pillen's Executive Order and the Good Life, Great Careers initiative.

Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Foster Care Recipients (MLARP Foster Care) is sponsored by Maryland Higher Education Commission. This program provides state assistance in the repayment of educational loans for foster care recipients who are employed by the state, or by a county or municipality of the state, and who received a graduate or undergraduate degree from an institution of higher education in Mary…

Community Outreach Grant (COG) program is sponsored by MOAA Charities (Military Officers Association of America). Provides funding to MOAA councils and chapters to support local, high-impact assistance programs for military and veteran families. Funding areas include housing, food assistance, employment, health (including behavioral health), family support, financial and legal assistance, and transportation.

Rocky Mountain Power Foundation Grants (Education/STEM Cycle) is sponsored by Rocky Mountain Power Foundation. The Rocky Mountain Power Foundation provides grants to nonprofits and community groups to enhance education and strengthen STEM learning opportunities. This includes initiatives that empower young people through education and essential skill development. The grants are distributed through one of four annual cycles.

The Clinical and Translational Science AI Innovation Award is an NCATS CTSA-funded pilot mechanism administered by The Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science, providing up to 125,000 US dollars in direct costs per year across a 24-month project period for a maximum of 250,000 dollars. It is one of the larger institutional AI pilot awards in the CTSA network, where comparable programmes commonly cap at 25,000 to 50,000 dollars, which makes it worth tracking as a model for how CTSA hubs are funding clinical AI. Projects must employ an innovative AI or data science approach or technology that drives translational science and must address an identified translational research barrier; the award explicitly excludes pre-clinical research, so bench-only machine learning projects are out of scope, and review weighs both innovation and equity. All work must be completed within the 24-month window, which rules out designs with long accrual timelines. Eligibility is institutional: multiple principal investigators must hold PI status at Ohio State or Nationwide Children's Hospital, must be CTSI members at full-application stage with human subjects protection training complete, and are disqualified if they have received a CTSI pilot award activated on or after 1 August 2025 or a prior CTS-AI Award activated on or after 1 August 2024. The programme uses a two-stage process in which full applications are by invitation following pre-application review; awardees face firm compliance milestones, meeting the Regulatory Program Manager by 15 March 2027 and submitting to the Institutional Review Board by 31 March 2027. The deadline recorded here reflects that award-cycle milestone rather than a published pre-application date, which the Center has not posted, so applicants should confirm the current pre-application window with the Center directly.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research, in partnership with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Air Warfare Directorate (RA), intends to provide support for a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers at U.S. universities to establish a university-led Center for High-Speed Aerothermoelasticity. This multidisciplinary, basic research initiative focuses on investigating complex problem sets involving the fundamental physics at the intersection of high-speed fluid mechanics, thermal transport, and structural sciences. By supporting a balanced, integrated approach across computational simulation, theoretical modeling, and ground experimentation in these three areas, the Center will tackle critical aerothermoelasticity challenges for the Air Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering. This opportunity is a chance to work closely with the Air Force Research Lab Air Warfare Directorate (AFRL/RA) on computational simulations and ground and flight experiments in the field of high-speed aerothermoelasticity.We seek unclassified proposals from a highly collaborative, qualified and responsible university-led team that bridges the traditional silos of fluid dynamics, thermal transport, and structural mechanics. The program requires an interdisciplinary roster of up to ten investigators (including computational and experimental leads) and strongly encourages partnership with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), in alignment with Executive Order 14283. Beyond technical discovery, the Center acts as a vital connection between academia and DoW scientists at facilities such as Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC). This ensures that breakthrough academic research translates into tangible capabilities for the Department of the Air Force (DAF) and access to a well-trained future aerospace workforce. It is important that your proposal shows strength in as many of the evaluation areas as practical for maximum competitiveness.The award shall be made to U.S. institutions of higher education, where the principal investigator is employed on a full-time basis and holds a regular, non-contractor position. Researchers working at the Federally Funded Research and Development Centers and DoW Laboratories are not eligible for this competition. Funding Opportunity Number: FA955027S0001. Assistance Listing: 12.800. Funding Instrument: G. Category: ST. Award Amount: $8.3M – $13.8M per award.

Appalachian Region Infrastructure and Economic Development Grants is a grant program from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) that funds infrastructure improvements and economic development initiatives across the 423-county Appalachian region spanning 13 states. Eligible activities include transportation, broadband, water and wastewater systems, workforce development, and community infrastructure projects. State and local governments and nonprofit organizations in the Appalachian region are eligible to apply. Award amounts vary based on project scope and need. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through April 30, 2027. ARC prioritizes projects addressing persistent economic distress and improving connectivity in historically underserved communities.

Refugee Support Services Subgrant (Franklin County) is sponsored by Franklin County Board of Commissioners (administered by Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services). The Franklin County Board of Commissioners approved funding to continue refugee employment and support services in Central Ohio, including workplace English, basic employability instruction, job placement assistance, and job retention services.

Colorado Business Builder: Small Grants Program is sponsored by Northwest and Rocky Mountain Regional Food Business Center (USDA-funded). Grants designed to support small to mid-scale Colorado food and farm businesses, including value-added food businesses like bakeries. Funds can support business skills development, market expansion, and strengthening of local/regional food supply chains.

Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Travel Assistance, FY2027 is sponsored by Office of the Governor, Criminal Justice Division (Texas). This program solicits applications from law enforcement agencies to offset travel costs for sending peace officers to Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) and provides financial assistance to first responders and telecommunicators for active attack integrate…

ALERRT Travel Assistance, FY2027 is sponsored by Office of the Governor (OOG) - Criminal Justice Division. Solicits applications from law enforcement agencies to offset agency-incurred travel costs for sending peace officers to Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) training and provides financial assistance to first responders and telecommunicators for the purpose…

Right Now Grants is sponsored by BECU Foundation. Supports community partners addressing scholarships, job training, housing, homeownership, and access to financial services. Relevant to nonprofit workforce-training scholarships and homeownership or financial-literacy initiatives, although the published material describes the current awards as grants to selected partners rather than an open application cycle.

CDC Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG) is a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that funds state health departments and national public health partner organizations to strengthen America's public health system and infrastructure. PHIG directly supports workforce development, data modernization, and foundational public health capabilities at the state and local level. The program includes funding for national partners and provides technical assistance through the PHIVE program. FY2026 funding details are available in the PHIG Funding Chart. Eligible applicants are state health departments and national public health partner organizations. The program period extends through November 2027.

Texas Invests in Meaningful Employment (TIME) Grant is sponsored by Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The TIME Grant supports public lower-division higher education institutions and their regional partners to implement new or expand existing short-duration career and technical education (CTE) programs in high-demand and higher-earning occupations that result in a credential of value for students. These programs are developed in collaboration with workforce stakeholders and support strong employment outcomes.

Google.org Grant to Good Things Foundation for AI Skills is sponsored by Google.org (administered by Good Things Foundation). This grant funds a program to equip low-skilled workers across the UK with essential foundational AI skills. It aims to address the digital skills gap and safeguard employability in jobs exposed to AI-driven automation, such as administrative support and customer service.

NDEP STEM Open NFO is sponsored by Department of Defense (DoD), Washington Headquarters Services. This is an open Notice of Funding Opportunity (NFO) that seeks innovative applications for mechanisms to implement and research the effectiveness of STEM education, outreach, and/or workforce initiative programs. Amendments to this NFO will detail specific funding opportunities. Areas of interest include STEM education and outreach, support for STEM education at two-year institutions/community colleges, manufacturing engineering education, workforce development aligned to DoD Critical Technology Areas, and STEM scholarship programs.

Youth Jobs Grant is sponsored by GOV.UK. The Youth Jobs Grant provides financial support to employers in Great Britain to encourage the recruitment of young people aged 18-24 who have been on Universal Credit and out of work for at least 6 months. The grant aims to support up to 60,000 job opportunities over three years.