Department of Labor
Total Recovery Act funding
The Department of Labor received $4.8 billion under ARRA.
Funding Opportunities
- Close Date: This synopsis is for information purposes only.
Opportunity Title: Department of Labor Recovery Act Competitive Grant Opportunities
Agency: DOL
Funding Number: SGA-DFA-PY-08-13
Description: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides $750 million for a program of competitive grants for worker training and placement in high growth and emerging industry sectors. Of that amount, $500 million is targeted for research, labor exchange, and job training projects that prepare workers for careers in energy efficiency and renewable energy as defined in the Green Jobs Act: energy efficient building, construction, and retrofitting; renewable electric power; energy efficient and advanced drive train vehicles; biofuels; deconstruction and materials use; energy efficiency assessment for residential, commercial, or industrial sector, and manufacturing of sustainable products using sustainable processes. The remaining $250 million will be for projects in other high growth and emerging industry sectors with a priority for projects that prepare workers for careers in the health care sector and projects that are tied to industry sectors where jobs are being created as a result of Recovery Act investments such as infrastructure investments. In order to maximize the impact of these competitive grants and leverage the other investments in the Recovery Act, the Department of Labor (DOL) is collaborating with other Federal agencies and developing a multi-pronged investment approach with these funds. DOL plans to issue Solicitations for Grant Awards (SGA) no later than June 30, 2009. The SGA will provide specific requirements for use of the funds, certification, data reporting, performance measures, and other necessary information. DOL will be publishing the grant opportunities on Grants.gov. Information on grant opportunities will also be available on DOL's Recovery Web site: http://www.dol.gov/recovery/. This synopsis is for information purposes only. Specific funding opportunities related to this notice will be forthcoming and will be posted on www.grants.gov under a unique funding opportunity number and Recovery Act description.