Workforce Innovation Fund Limited Competition Opportunity

Agency: Employment and Training Administration

17.283 -- Workforce Innovation Fund

Archived opportunityLast Updated: May 13, 2026

Description

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will use approximately $34 million in Workforce Innovation Fund (WIF) grants to promote system reforms and innovations that facilitate cooperation across programs to improve employment outcomes, cost effectiveness, and delivery of customer-centered services to job seekers, youth and employers. Awarded grants will focus on Job-Driven system alignment and implementation of a fully integrated workforce development system. It is designed to complement other federal efforts such as the implementation of the President’s Job-Driven Training Agenda, Job-Driven...

National Emergency Grants (NEG), and previous rounds of WIF grants. Additional information on the President’s Job-Driven Training Agenda is available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/skills_report_072014_2.pdf. Additional information on the WIF can be found at http://www.doleta.gov/workforce_innovation.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants

Miscellaneous

Other

Additional information

In order to be eligible to apply, applicants must act as (a) the state workforce agency responsible for administering title I of the WIA/WIOA i.e., Adult, Youth and Dislocated Worker Programs; or (b) a current grantee under the WIA/WIOA Section 166 Indian and Native American Program.

Grantor contact information

Description

Serena Boyd Grants Management Specialist Phone 202-693-3338

Email

boyd.serena@dol.gov

Documents

File name	Description	Last updated
foa-eta-15-10.pdf	FOA-ETA-15-10	Jun 10, 2015 05:17 PM UTC

Link to additional information

Archived: August 22, 2015

Application process

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Award

$34,000,000

Program Funding

Expected awards

$3,000,000

Award Minimum

$6,000,000

Award Maximum

Funding opportunity number:

FOA-ETA-15-10

Cost sharing or matching requirement:

Funding instrument type:

Grant

Opportunity Category:

Discretionary

Opportunity Category Explanation:

Category of Funding Activity:

Employment labor and training

Category Explanation:

History

Version:

Posted date:

June 10, 2015

Archive date:

August 22, 2015