Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants
Grant: Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Deadline: This competition is closed. The deadline April 9, 2013.
Description: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the availability of funds and solicits proposals to deliver environmental workforce development and job training programs focused on hazardous and solid waste remediation, environmental health and safety and waste water-related training activities. While Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants focus on hazardous and solid waste remediation and health and safety, applicants may design their own curriculums by choosing what types of supplemental environmental training they want to provide.
This grant program, formerly known as the Brownfields Job Training Grants Program, allows applicants to deliver a broader array of training in the environmental field in addition to the traditional hazardous and solid waste training. Through this expanded program, graduates will develop wider skill sets that will improve their ability to secure full-time, sustainable employment in various aspects of hazardous and solid waste management and within the larger environmental cleanup and remediation field.
Grants from this program will help residents take advantage of the jobs created by the management, assessment, cleanup and revitalization of solid and hazardous waste sites, as well as other environmental projects such as water quality improvement and chemical management in their communities. Proposed training programs should target unemployed and underemployed individuals. Under the FY13 competition, applicants from communities affected by recent manufacturing plant closures, or other significant economic disruptions are expected to receive funding preferences.
EPA anticipates that one of the outputs for the grants awarded under this announcement will be classroom style training, practical training and curricula modules. Applicants must submit a training program outline that includes curriculum topics, course duration, schedules and certifications that participants will be eligible to attain.
Fit for public broadcasting: Public broadcasting stations are eligible to apply for this grant. Because the EPA expects grant recipients to create community-centered environmental job training programs, this grant is a good fit for stations with experience conducting job training. The EPA only awards funds to one recipient but allows recipients to make subawards and fund partnerships, so stations can easily provide workforce training expertise to a project created by a community partner.
Eligibility: Units of local government, land clearance authorities, government entities, regional councils, redevelopment agencies, states, Indian tribes, Alaska Native regional corporations and nonprofit organizations, including public and nonprofit private educational institutions, are all eligible to apply.
Those who received a Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training grant in FY12 are not eligibile to apply under this competition if their proposed project serves the same city and target area as the previous award.
Anticipated funding: The total estimated funding available under this competitive opportunity is approximately $2,400,000 to be made across 12 awards. Applicants may apply for up to $200,000 in EPA funds for a three-year project period.
How to apply: Applications may be submitted electronically on Grants.gov or sent by mail. Check the program notice for specific details on submitting your application by U.S. mail. Online submission requires registration, a process that usually takes three to five business days but can take as long as four weeks. Be sure to visit Grants.gov and begin registering well in advance of the grant deadline.
Resources:
Program Notice
EPA’s Brownfield and Land Revitalization Website
