Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) AI Literacy Grants

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) AI Literacy Grants is sponsored by U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).

# U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR # Employment and Training Administration NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR: Next Level Now Technical Assistance Collaborative ANNOUNCEMENT TYPE: Initial FUNDING OPPORTUNITYANNOUNCEMENT (FOA) : FOA-ETA-25-35 ASSISTANCE LISTING NUMBER: 17. 281 (WIOA) and 17.

207 (Wagner-Peyser) KEY DATES: The closing date for receipt of applications under this Announcement is February 4, 2025 . We must receive applications no later than 11:59 p. m.

Eastern Time . Submit all applications in response to this solicitation through https://www. grants.

gov. For complete application and submission information, including online application instructions, please refer to Section IV. 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................ 2 I.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION ........................................................................... 4 A. PROGRAM PURPOSE..........................................................................................................

4 B. PROGRAM AUTHORITY .................................................................................................... 7 II.

AWARD INFORMATION ........................................................................................................ 8 A. AWARD TYPE AND AMOUNT ..........................................................................................

8 B. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE ............................................................................................. 9 III.

ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION .............................................................................................. 9 A. ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS .....................................................................................................

9 B. COST SHARING OR MATCHING .................................................................................... 10 C.

OTHER INFORMATION .................................................................................................... 11 IV. APPLICATION AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION ......................................................

12 A. HOW TO OBTAIN AN APPLICATION PACKAGE ........................................................ 12 B.

CONTENT AND FORM OF APPLICATION SUBMISSION ........................................... 12 C. SUBMISSION DATE, TIME, PROCESS AND ADDRESS ..............................................

27 D. INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW ................................................................................ 30 E.

FUNDING RESTRICTIONS ............................................................................................... 30 F. OTHER SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ........................................................................

32 V. APPLICATION REVIEW INFORMATION .......................................................................... 33 A.

CRITERIA............................................................................................................................ 33 B. REVIEW AND SELECTION PROCESS ............................................................................

34 VI. AWARD ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION................................................................. 39 A.

AWARD NOTICES ............................................................................................................. 39 B. ADMINISTRATIVE AND NATIONAL POLICY REQUIREMENTS .............................

40 C. REPORTING ........................................................................................................................ 45 VII.

AGENCY CONTACTS ........................................................................................................ 45 VIII. OTHER INFORMATION ...................................................................................................

46 A. WEB-BASED RESOURCES............................................................................................... 46 B.

INDUSTRY COMPETENCY MODELS AND CAREER CLUSTERS ............................. 46 C. WORKFORCEGPS RESOURCES......................................................................................

46 D. SKILLSCOMMONS RESOURCES.................................................................................... 47 IX.

OMB INFORMATION COLLECTION ................................................................................ 47 APPENDIX A ........................................................................................................................... 47 2 The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL, the Department, or we), announces the availability of approximately $1.

5 million to fund the Next Level Now (NLN) Technical Assistance Collaborative (TA Collaborative) in its first year of operation. Through a cooperative agreement 1 with DOL, the TA Collaborative will provide strategic, short- and long-term technical assistance (TA) to help public workforce system entities at the state and local levels improve service quality and outcomes for job seekers and employers who use the public workforce system.

For the purposes of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the public workforce system is considered as primarily Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I and Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service grantees and required partners of the one stop delivery system.

TA may be provided to a broader range of workforce system partners to improve WIOA Title I and Wagner-Peyser Act service The TA Collaborative will operate over a 4-year (48-month) period of performance from an anticipated start date of March 2025. Under this FOA, ETA expects to award one or more cooperative agreements, and applicants may apply for no more than $1,500,000, which will cover their project’s first year of operation.

ETA anticipates each awardee will also receive annual increments of approximately $1 million in the subsequent three years of the period of performance, for an approximate total of $4. 5 million. The award of all increments will be contingent upon receipt of a complete incremental funding application package, federal funds availability, satisfactory progress of the project to date, and adequate stewardship of federal funds.

Note that the term “TA Collaborative” does not refer to a physical location or center.

The goals of this funding opportunity are to support the modernization of the workforce system to: 1) improve the quality of employment and training services provided through WIOA Title I and the Wagner-Peyser Act to the nation’s job seekers and employers; 2) increase the workforce system’s efficacy, performance, and efficiency by helping grantees comply with federal requirements in managing federally-funded training and employment programs; and 3) achieve > 1The Next Level Now (NLN) Technical Assistance Collaborative (TA Collaborative) is a consortium of partners, > led by ETA’s NLN Steering Committee, that delivers TA to the public workforce system.

> 2Section 121(b)(1)(B) of WIOA identifies the entities that are required partners in the local one-stop delivery > systems.

The required partners are the entities responsible for administering the following programs and activities in > the local area: (1) Programs authorized under Title I of WIOA, including: Adults; Dislocated Workers; Youth; Job > Corps; YouthBuild; Native American programs; and Migrant and Seasonal farmworker programs; (2) The Wagner- > Peyser Act Employment Service program; (3) The Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) program; (4) > The Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) program; (5) The Senior Community Service Employment Program; (6) Career > and technical education programs at the postsecondary level; (7) Trade Adjustment Assistance activities; (8) Jobs for > Veterans State Grants programs; (9) Employment and training activities carried out under the Community Services > Block Grant (42 U.S.C.

9901 et seq. ); (10) Employment and training activities carried out by the Department of > Housing and Urban Development; (11) Programs authorized under State unemployment compensation laws (in > accordance with applicable Federal law); and (13) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).

equity in service delivery and outcomes for historically underserved populations, including people of color, opportunity youth , 3and individuals with disabilities. The TA Collaborative will plan and deliver a comprehensive approach to TA in response to the needs identified by the WIOA Title I and Wagner-Peyser Act grantees.

In addition, the TA Collaborative, in coordination with DOL, will improve services by responding in real time to emergent technical assistance needs of state and local workforce development boards and state workforce agencies.

The TA Collaborative will also facilitate peer learning and information sharing, provide access to subject matter expertise intended to increase the workforce system’s efficacy and performance, and advise on how to apply evidence-based practices to improve Eligible applicants must be organizations that possess the internal capacity, external relationships, and expertise in workforce development that will enable them to deliver TA services on a national, system-wide scale to the public workforce system.

The following entities  non-profit organizations;  educational institutions, including research institutions that provide technical  labor organizations or trade unions;  for-profit technical assistance providers, private institutes, or independent policy research organizations.

A successful applicant must demonstrate the capacity and established partnerships to operate the TA Collaborative, which must provide a broad range of TA and subject matter expertise in key topics that DOL and the TA Collaborative identify as priorities, both within this FOA and based on assessed needs of the public workforce system during the period of performance.

To support the modernization of the public workforce system, specific evidence-based technical assistance topics should include: 1) Workforce system innovations, such as virtual and hybrid service delivery, and use of Artificial Intelligence; 2) WIOA Governance; 3) Fiscal and Administrative Management such as, but not limited to, cost allocation principles, financial reporting, internal controls, subaward administration, and cash management; 4) Sector Partnerships and Employer Engagement Strategies; and 5) Performance Management, including the focus on ensuring equitable services and outcomes for historically underserved populations, including people of color, opportunity youth, and individuals with disabilities.

If DOL awards multiple cooperative agreements from this FOA, DOL expects all grantees to work together as a singular TA Collaborative to improve services of one-stop partner programs, > 3Opportunity youth are young people who are between the ages of 16 to 24 years old and are disconnected from > school and work. www. youth.

gov leveraging expertise and sharing TA products across the TA Collaborative for the maximum benefit of the workforce system customers. I. FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION This Announcement solicits applications to operate the Next Level Now (NLN) Technical Assistance (TA) Collaborative, funded by Dislocated Worker Technical Assistance and Training funds and by Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service Technical Assistance and Training funds.

The Department is funding this effort with a combination from both sources because the TA Collaborative will reflect a comprehensive approach to improving services for job seekers and employers in the public workforce system, which provides integrated services under WIOA and the Wagner-Peyser Act.

In close coordination with DOL’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA)’s Office of Workforce Investment and ETA’s Regional Offices, the TA Collaborative will provide a comprehensive program of technical assistance and training support for the public workforce system to promote the continuous improvement of services and outcomes provided to job seekers and employers.

The public workforce system is funded, in part, through formula grants administered by ETA to states and state agencies authorized by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), and the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933, as amended. The system is designed to both help job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market and match employers with skilled workers.

A major component of WIOA is the strategic coordination of the WIOA core programs working in partnership to achieve these aims.

The WIOA core programs are the DOL-administered Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth programs in WIOA Title I; the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service program (authorized by the Wagner Peyser Act as amended by WIOA Title III); and the Department of Education- administered Adult Education and Family Literacy (WIOA Title II) and Vocational Rehabilitation (authorized by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended by WIOA Title IV) The TA Collaborative will coordinate with ETA through the NLN Steering Committee, which is comprised of national and regional office representatives, to plan and deliver a comprehensive approach to technical assistance, with the goal of assisting the public workforce system— considered here as primarily WIOA Title I and Wager-Peyser Act Employment Service grantees and required partners of the one stop delivery system— to provide quality services to the nation’s job seekers and employers.

To further the goal of improving public services, the TA Collaborative will also assist grantees in complying with federal requirements. The purpose of the NLN TA Collaborative is to provide effective, efficient delivery of TA services, with the desired result of establishing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to improving services and outcomes of the public workforce system.

This TA Collaborative is not a physical center, but rather a hub or focal point for collaboration. Jointly led by ETA’s Steering Committee and the selected applicant(s), this approach will include assessing TA needs; developing and delivering TA events and materials to share information on evidence-based 5 practices; developing TA tools and resources; and providing subject matter expertise throughout the public workforce system.

To produce strong evidence on the effectiveness of the TA delivered, the Department will require the TA Collaborative to assess the effectiveness of the TA provided on an on-going basis. The TA Collaborative will leverage the use of DOL’s TA resources, including its technical assistance web platform www. WorkforceGPS.

org, to ensure that the technical assistance materials developed or adapted pursuant to this cooperative agreement are broadly disseminated and easily accessible to public workforce system stakeholders.

All award recipient(s) must ensure that all TA deliverables and resources developed, as well as existing materials shared or adapted, under their cooperative agreement(s) are made available on the online Community of Practice on WorkforceGPS: https://nextlevelnow. workforcegps. org/ .

If DOL awards multiple cooperative agreements from this FOA, all grantees must coordinate, leveraging expertise and sharing TA products across organizations, for the maximum benefit of the workforce system Successful applicant(s) must demonstrate the capacity to provide a broad range of TA and subject matter expertise in key topics that DOL and the TA Collaborative identify as priorities, both within this FOA as well as based on assessed needs of the public workforce system throughout the course of the period of performance.

At a minimum, such topics include responding to the evolving needs of the economy, responding to the need to modernize service delivery, as well as addressing ongoing implementation and program management issues among public workforce system grantees and partners.

With the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act, and Chips and Science Act, there is increased demand for skilled workers and opportunities for the workforce system to connect job seekers with quality jobs. DOL wants to ensure that all job seeker populations will be prepared for the new jobs created.

Thus, the TA Collaborative will also assist the public workforce system to advance equity and improve job quality to better serve historically underserved groups, including people of color, opportunity youth, and individuals with disabilities.

Applicants must demonstrate how they will provide technical assistance on promising and evidence-based practices to increase the workforce system’s efficacy, performance, and efficiency in the following areas: 1) Workforce system innovations, such as virtual and hybrid service delivery, and use of Artificial Intelligence; 2) WIOA Governance; 3) Fiscal and Administrative Management such as, but not limited to, cost allocation principles, financial reporting, internal controls, subaward administration, and cash management; 4) Sector Partnerships and Employer Engagement Strategies; and 5) Performance Management, including the focus on ensuring equitable services and outcomes for historically underserved populations, including people of color, opportunity youth, and individuals with disabilities.

These foci may evolve during the subsequent years of the cooperative agreement based on the overall workforce environment and the areas of greatest TA need.

DOL expects delivery of relevant, high quality technical assistance to the public workforce system, and demonstration of those results via measurable or tangible improvements (i.e., increased adoption of a specific evidence-based practice, process efficiency; and improved performance outcomes).

Applicants need to ensure that their approach for assessing and 6 addressing TA needs reflects proven or evidence-based activities that will deliver sustainable results for those receiving the technical assistance. The TA Collaborative must develop and implement methods to measure, in real time and on an ongoing basis, and with active contribution from DOL, the effectiveness of TA to the extent practicable.

Such methods should allow the TA Collaborative and DOL to observe whether technical assistance is making an impact, in a timeframe that allows for adjustments in TA delivery. For instance, methods could maximize use of administrative data or actions that DOL can easily observe.

Therefore, applicants’ technical assistance approaches must include methods for measuring and assessing behavioral changes resulting from the technical assistance. The TA Collaborative must develop annual work plans, including the proposed TA activities, that will be updated on a quarterly basis.

The NLN Steering Committee will conduct an ongoing review of the TA activities throughout the period of performance and expect summary reports on TA that is provided on a quarterly basis. The TA Collaborative must also submit an interim and final report analyzing the effectiveness of the TA provided to the workforce system.

Applicants must plan for time at the end of the grant to close out TA activities with grantees, finalize TA materials and resources for public dissemination, and submit a final Effectiveness of TA Evaluation Report for the ongoing sustainability of the NLN TA Collaborative. (Note that this is different from the evaluation described under the Special Program Requirements.)

The TA Collaborative will focus on providing technical assistance on a national scale. The TA Collaborative will primarily engage the workforce system and its partners through a virtual platform/online presence. Applicants must develop comprehensive strategies that will provide technical assistance across the public workforce system (i.e. capacity to reach and service multiple geographic 2.

PROGRAM GOALS AND ALLOWABLE ACTIVITIES a. Goals.

The goals of this technical assistance cooperative agreement are to support the modernization of the workforce system to 1) improve the quality of employment and training services provided through WIOA Title I and the Wagner-Peyser Act to the nation’s job seekers and employers; 2) increase the workforce system’s efficacy, performance, and efficiency by helping grantees comply with federal requirements in managing federally-funded training and employment programs; and 3) achieve equity in service delivery and outcomes for people of color and historically underserved populations, including opportunity youth and individuals with disabilities.

b. General Technical Assistance (TA) Activities. The TA Collaborative funded under this cooperative agreement must develop a comprehensive, system-wide TA plan, featuring strategies intended to increase the workforce system’s efficacy, performance, and efficiency.

The TA plan will be developed in consultation with the NLN Steering Committee and submitted as an annual document that is updated on a quarterly basis for each calendar year. At a minimum, the TA Collaborative must do  Provide technical assistance to individual WIOA Title I and Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service grantees and subgrantees experiencing an acute challenge, identifying such grantees’ needs in consultation with ETA.

 Provide customized TA for specific states and local workforce development areas, utilizing methods and proven subject matter expertise to address and resolve their greatest  Establish and facilitate peer-to-peer and small group learning opportunities between entities of similar size, geographic characteristics, and governance structure to exchange promising practices or identify solutions that resolve similar challenges and improve the service delivery of these entities.

 Deploy subject matter expertise and deliver TA in the following areas identified by ETA as a priority 1) Workforce system innovations, such as virtual and hybrid service delivery, and use of Artificial Intelligence; 2) WIOA Governance; 3) Fiscal and Administrative Management such as, but not limited to cost allocation principles, financial reporting, internal controls, subaward administration, and cash management; 4) Sector Partnerships and Employer Engagement Strategies; and 5) Performance Management, including the focus on ensuring equitable services and outcomes for historically underserved populations, including people of color, opportunity youth, and individuals with disabilities.

 Build public workforce system’s capacity to conduct participant and employer outreach, implement training and employment programs, and build and strengthen partnerships.

 Identify additional topic areas, based on an assessment of needs, to deploy subject matter  Develop TA resources and materials on best practices, grantee profiles, QuickSheets, or toolkits detailing how grantees can implement evidence-based practices and disseminate these resources to assist and improve the public workforce system.

 Coordinate with ETA to leverage, align, and build on existing TA efforts already in place to maximize the use of resources and minimize the duplication of efforts.  Ensure, at ETA’s direction, engagement with ETA-, DOL-, and other relevant federally funded TA providers, , including all TA Collaboratives, if ETA awards more than one cooperative agreement to serve the public workforce system.

 Use ETA’s platforms to engage an online community that supports key stakeholders and customers, which will be used to sustain the activities of the NLN TA Collaborative. The Dislocated Worker Technical Assistance and Training funds, as authorized under the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, P. L.

118-47, Div. D, Title I, Training and Employment Services section (2)(A) and the Employment Service Technical Assistance and Training funds, as available in the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Div.

D, Title I in the State Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations section (4), authorize this Under this FOA, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) expects to award one or more cooperative agreements, and applicants may apply for no more than $1. 5 million, which will cover their project’s first year of operation.

ETA anticipates each awardee will also receive annual increments of approximately $1 million in the subsequent three years of the period of performance, for an approximate total of $4. 5 million.

The award of all increments will be contingent upon receipt of a complete incremental funding application package, federal funds availability, satisfactory progress of the project to date, and adequate stewardship of federal Please see Section IV for instructions on the submission of budgets and plans for both the initial award and the collective four-year period of performance.

ETA will make funding available for the TA Collaborative through a cooperative agreement(s). The primary purpose of the agreement is to assist the TA Collaborative in developing TA to improve the services that the public workforce system offers to the nation’s job seekers and employers, and DOL expects to be substantially involved in the oversight, development, and implementation of TA under the agreement.

Through the NLN Steering Committee, ETA will provide input and approval to the TA Collaborative on proposed strategies, products, and events. ETA’s involvement in the NLN Steering Committee may include the following activities:  Direction on which WIOA Title I and Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service grantees need targeted assistance.

 Monthly conference calls with the selected cooperative agreement recipient(s) throughout the period of performance to collaborate on TA strategies and plans.  Prior approval of any related sub-contracts.  Prior approval of all key personnel appointments and changes.

 Participating in site visits to project areas, as needed.  Providing advice and consultation, in addition to requiring concurrence on matters of project development and management.  Providing the selected grant recipient with technical and programmatic support, including guidance on ETA grant administration and monitoring systems.

 Providing oversight and approval of all content for print and online resources developed through project activities, including clearing topics for material production and final document production (e.g., fact sheets, outreach flyers, training materials, information about the project on the applicant’s website, and similar materials).

9  Reviewing summary reports on TA that is provided, which includes specific action items for both the TA Collaborative and the cooperative agreement recipient.  Providing guidance on ETA’s standard procedures for managing cooperative agreements and reviewing documents pertaining to the award, such as, but not limited to, status and technical progress reports, performance metrics, and quarterly financial reports.

ETA will provide the format for the technical progress reports. The period of performance is forty-eight (48) months with an anticipated start date of March 2025. This performance period includes all necessary implementation and start-up activities.

While the period of performance is 48 months, applicants may have a short period of time for start-up and planning activities; however, applicants should plan to deliver technical assistance within the first three months after the cooperative agreement is III.

ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION Eligible applicants must be organizations that possess the internal capacity, external relationships, and expertise in workforce development that will enable them to deliver TA services on a national, system-wide scale to the public workforce system.

The following entities are eligible to apply:  non-profit organizations;  educational institutions, including research institutions that provide technical  labor organizations or trade unions;  for-profit technical assistance providers, private institutes, or independent policy research organizations.

Among eligible applicants listed above, the applicant agency or organization must also have the expertise (particularly within the publicly funded workforce system), resources, and capacity (number of personnel, subject matter experts) to deliver comprehensive TA at a nationwide scale.

DOL anticipates that most eligible entities will not singularly possess the expertise or capacity to operate the project unassisted and will need to engage partners. As such, the lead applicant’s implementation plan must include a description of the associated partners, if engaged, to supplement program activities to fully address and execute all of the required grant funded activities and deliverables.

Those applicants proposing partnerships must describe the roles and expected contributions of the partners and provide documentation of the roles and contributions through either 10 Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) or Letters of Commitment. Applicants must identify their institution type in Section 9 of the SF-424 Application for Federal Assistance.

Importantly, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has published revised guidance on administering and managing Federal awards in Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Formerly referred to as the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles and Audit Requirements (“Uniform Guidance”), it is now the OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance.

This guidance at 2 CFR 200, as well 2 CFR 2900 (DOL’s Supplement to 2 CFR 200) applies to any entity that carries out a federal award as a recipient or subrecipient, including for-profit organizations. This includes the monitoring and the examination of their records. The latest revisions to 2 CFR 200 became effective October 1, 2024.

Please refer to TEGL 05-24 | U.S. Department of Labor (dol. gov) for more information. Under the cooperative agreement, award recipients become part of the Next Level Now TA Collaborative and participate in a partnership with DOL’s Next Level Now Steering Committee.

The recipient must be the organization specified in Section 8 of the SF-424 Application Form.

Additionally, the recipient must be: (1) DOL’s point of contact to receive and respond to all inquiries or communications under this FOA and any subsequent cooperative agreement; (2) the entity with authority to withdraw or draw down funds through the Department of Health and Human Services-Payment Management System (HHS-PMS); (3) the entity responsible for coordinating with DOL on all deliverables, including all technical and financial reports related to the project, regardless of which partnership member performed the work; (4) the entity that may request or agree to a revision of the cooperative agreement; (5) the entity with overall responsibility for carrying out the programmatic functions of the cooperative agreement, as well as for the stewardship of all expenditures under the cooperative agreement; (6) the entity responsible for coordinating with any evaluator, including participating in an ETA evaluation and other studies; and (7) the entity responsible for working with DOL to close out the If DOL awards multiple cooperative agreements under this FOA, it expects that awardees will coordinate with DOL in a partnership.

Awardees will work collaboratively to fulfill the requirements of the cooperative agreement without duplication of effort, services, or materials (e.g., coordinating which entity/organization would be responsible for specific activities, work packages, and work products). As a condition of award, the awardees must provide DOL, within 30 days, an agreement signed by all awardees establishing and describing the partnership.

As noted in the Executive Summary, the TA Collaborative is not a physical center; rather, it is one or more cooperative agreement recipients working collaboratively with associated partners to collaborate, plan, assess and deliver TA to the public workforce system. B. COST SHARING OR MATCHING This program does not require cost sharing or matching funds.

Including such funds is not one of the application screening criteria; thus, applications that include any form of cost sharing or match will not receive additional consideration during the review process. Instead, the agency considers any resources contributed to the project beyond 11 the funds provided by the agency as leveraged resources. Section IV.

B. 2 provides more information on leveraged resources. 1.

Application Screening Criteria You should use the checklist below as a guide when preparing your application package to ensure that it meets all of the screening criteria. Note that this checklist is only an aid for applicants and should not be included in the application package. We urge you to use this checklist to ensure that your application contains all required items.

If your application does not meet all of the screening criteria, ETA will consider it non-responsive and exclude it from the Application Requirement Instructions Complete? The deadline submission requirements are met. Section IV.

C Eligibility Section III. A The components of the application are saved in any of the specified formats and are not corrupt. ( We will attempt to open the document but will not take any additional measures in the event of problems with opening .)

SF-424, Application for Federal Assistance, with a federal funds request not exceeding the ceiling amount of $1,500,000. Active SAM Registration Section IV. B.

1 SF-424 includes a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) Section IV. B. 1 SF-424A, Budget Information Form Section IV.

B. 2 Budget Narrative Section IV. B.

2 Project Narrative Section IV. B. 3 2.

Number of Applications Applicants May Submit We will consider only one application from each organization. If we receive multiple applications from the same organization, we will consider only the most recently received application that met the deadline. If the most recent application is disqualified for any reason, we will not replace it with an earlier application.

3. Other Award Specifications Allowable Use of Funds : Each recipient of a cooperative agreement may use awarded funding to 12 cover their organization’s reasonable, necessary, and allocable expenses required for the effective implementation of program requirements associated with establishing the TA Collaborative.

Recipients may use funding to pay project staff to perform work associated with the program requirements of the cooperative agreement. Recipients may also use funds to conduct routine, internal program management activities. Profit Earnings : Recipients, including for-profit entities, are prohibited from earning a profit resulting from the implementation of this award.

As directed in 2 CFR 200. 400(g), recipients may not earn or keep any profit resulting from Federal financial assistance unless explicitly authorized in the Federal award. IV.

APPLICATION AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION A. HOW TO OBTAIN AN APPLICATION PACKAGE This FOA, found at www. Grants.

gov and https://www. dol. gov/agencies/eta/grants/apply/find- opportunities contains all of the information and links to forms needed to apply for grant B.

CONTENT AND FORM OF APPLICATION SUBMISSION Applications submitted in response to this FOA must consist of four separate and distinct parts: 1. SF-424, “Application for Federal Assistance; 2. Project Budget, composed of the SF-424A and Budget Narrative; 3.

Project Narrative; and 4. Attachments to the Project Narrative. You must ensure that the funding amount requested is consistent across all parts and sub-parts of 1.

SF-424, “Application for Federal Assistance” You must complete the SF-424, “Application for Federal Assistance” (available at https://www. grants. gov/forms/forms-repository/sf-424-family ).

 In the address field, fill out the nine-digit (plus hyphen) zip code. Nine-digit zip codes can be looked up on the USPS website at https://tools. usps.

com/go/ZipLookupAction! input. action .

 The organization’s legal name on the SF-424 should match its name registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) at www. sam. gov .

If unsure of the legal name of your organization, visit www. sam. gov to confirm.

 The organization’s Employer Identification Number (EIN) and Unique Entity Identification (UEI) Number should match its information in www. sam. gov .

If unsure of the EIN or UEI of your organization, visit www. sam. gov to confirm.

13  The SF-424 must clearly identify the applicant and must be signed by an individual with authority to enter into a cooperative agreement. Upon confirmation of an award, the individual signing the SF-424 on behalf of the applicant is considered the Authorized Representative of the applicant.

As stated in block 21 of the SF-424 form, the signature of the Authorized Representative on the SF-424 certifies that the organization is in compliance with the Assurances and Certifications form SF-424B (available at https://www. grants. gov/forms/forms-repository/sf-424-family ).

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