Opportunity Information: Apply for FOA ETA 23 13
The Critical Sector Job Quality Grants (FOA ETA 23-13) is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (CFDA 17.280) designed as a demonstration program to improve both the quality and availability of "good jobs," with an explicit emphasis on ensuring that historically marginalized populations and communities facing barriers to quality employment benefit from the funded work. The program is built around the idea that job training alone is not enough unless it is tied to real improvements in wages, working conditions, stability, and worker voice, so it funds projects that reshape how key industries recruit, train, and retain workers while raising job standards.
The grant focuses on three critical sectors: (1) care, (2) climate resiliency and the clean energy transition, and (3) hospitality. Within these sectors, the Department of Labor is looking for industry-led and worker-centered sector strategies that are developed and carried out through labor-management partnerships. In practice, this means applicants are expected to bring together employers and labor organizations (and often other partners) to jointly design solutions that strengthen job quality and create clearer pathways into family-supporting work. A major through-line in the program is equity and worker voice: partnerships are expected to incorporate inclusive decision-making and ensure that the people most affected by job quality challenges have meaningful input into program design and workplace practices.
For this program, "high-quality jobs" are defined in concrete, worker-relevant terms. The Department of Labor describes these jobs as offering family-sustaining wages and benefits, predictable hours and schedules, transparent and nondiscriminatory hiring and promotion practices, clear paths for advancement, strong commitments to worker health and safety, and mechanisms that include workers' voices in the workplace. Funded projects are meant to advance these job-quality elements while also developing training models that prepare workers for those improved roles, rather than funneling workers into unstable or low-quality positions.
The funding supports two types of grants under the same announcement: shorter-term capacity-building planning grants and longer-term implementation grants. Planning grants are meant to help partnerships build the groundwork for effective sector strategies, such as organizing partners, assessing job quality gaps, aligning on job standards, designing training and advancement models, and setting up systems to measure progress. Implementation grants are intended to put those strategies into action at scale, including training workers and making the operational and workplace practice changes needed to sustain better job outcomes.
This opportunity is authorized under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), section 169(c), and funded through the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (Public Law 117-103, Division H), which supports demonstration and pilot projects related to the employment and training needs of dislocated workers, other adults, and youth. Up to 10 awards were expected, with an award ceiling of $3,000,000 per award. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others" with additional eligibility details referenced in the full announcement, meaning applicants should rely on the FOA's eligibility section to confirm which organization types and partnership structures qualify.
The application timeline included two closing dates tied to funding availability: applications were due by July 17, 2023 for the first open period, and, if funds remained available, by July 1, 2024 for a second open period. Applicants and interested parties were encouraged to subscribe to the opportunity on Grants.gov for updates. Questions about the FOA could be submitted by email to DOL-ETA-DWG@dol.gov.Apply for FOA ETA 23 13
- The Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration in the employment, labor and training sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Critical Sector Job Quality Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 17.280.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 17, 2023.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 17, 2023 This FOA has two closing dates. #160We must receive your application by 07/17/2023 for the first open period and, based on the availability of funds, by 07/01/2024 to be considered for the second open period.#160. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $3,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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