Grant Details
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ACTIVE GRANT PROGRAMS
| Program Name | Program Goals | Links | Available Funding | Amount Awarded | Grants Awarded | Funding Source | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Road Training Partnerships 2025 (HRTP 2025) | Increase access to existing High Road jobs for underserved populations and create pathways for incumbent workers seeking job growth with High Road employers. | Request for Application Awards Announcement | $18,577,290.00 | $18,577,290.00 | 7 | General Fund (0001) | 01/01/2026 | 12/31/2027 |
| High Road Training Partnerships 2024 Healthcare (HRTP HC) | The HRTP HC grant program will build on the state's previous investments in the healthcare sector by funding training partnerships that increase the number of workers in quality jobs in highdemand healthcare occupations. | Request for Application Award Announcement | $28,500,000.00 | $24,172,709.02 | 10 | General Fund (0001) | 07/01/2025 | 06/30/2027 |
| Workforce Accelerator Fund 13 (WAF 13) | Fund new projects and expand existing projects that will design, develop, and implement innovative workforce service models that lead to quality jobs and accelerate employment and re-employment for California workers. | Request for Application Award Announcement | $3,000,000.00 | $2,900,000.00 | 11 | Federal/WIOA (0890) | 07/01/2025 | 03/31/2027 |
| CalGEM (Oil and Gas Well Capping Pilot Initiative) | Develop an Oil and Gas Well Capping Pilot initiative in Kern and Los Angles Counties, specifically for training apprentices and upskilling journeypersons for well capping projects. | Request for Application Award Announcement | $7,555,327.00 | $7,555,327.00 | 1 | General Fund (0001) | 01/01/2025 | 03/27/2027 |
| Workforce Accelerator Fund 12 (WAF 12) | Seeks to underscore the state’s commitment to the High Road vision while allowing grantees to align funding, programs, and services in ways that center worker voice, equity, and job quality. | Request for Application Award Announcement | $3,000,000.00 | $2,900,000.00 | 4 | Federal/WIOA (0890) | 06/01/2024 | 03/31/2026 |
| Helping Justice-Involved Reenter Employment (HIRE) | HIRE is a new funding opportunity for community based organizations (CBOs) and other nonprofit organizations to provide employment services to justice-involved individuals. | Request for Application Award Announcement | $50,000,000.00 | $49,289,309.24 | 19 | General Fund (0001) | 04/01/2024 | 03/31/2027 |
| High Road Training Partnership Resilient Workforce Program (RWP) Summer 2023 - Round 3 | The Resilient Workforce Program will fund training partnerships with existing high road employers to increase the number of skilled workers from underserved populations in quality jobs in priority sectors. | Request for Application Award Announcement | $108,344,069.31 | $33,675,445.43 | 7 | General Fund (0001) Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (3228) | 07/01/2023 | 03/31/2026 |
| High Road Construction Careers Resilient Workforce Fund (HRCC RWF) | The HRCC: RWF Program intends to support and expand the work of past and present HRCC programs, and its goals therefore align and overlap with those of the HRCC: SB1 Program and the HRCC: CCI Program. | Request for Application Individual Award Letters | $43,604,809.91 | $43,604,809.91 | 13 | General Fund (0001) SB 1 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (0329) | 05/01/2023 | 03/31/2026 |
| High Road Training Partnerships: Resilient Workforce General Fund (RWF) Program Fall 2022 | und projects designed to promote income mobility and shared prosperity through an innovative and inclusive human capital strategy that prioritizes job quality, supports economic and climate resilience, and links regionally-driven sector work to a statewide skills agenda. | Request for Application Award Announcement | $94,461,531.32 | $45,763,870.12 | 11 | General Fund (0001) | 05/01/2023 | 12/31/2026 |
| High Road Training Partnership Resilient Workforce Program (RWP) Spring 2023 - Round 2 | Fund training partnerships with existing high road employers to increase the number of skilled workers from underserved populations in quality jobs in priority sectors. | Request for Application Award Announcement | $108,344,069.31 | $33,15,914.55 | 9 | General Fund (0001) | 05/01/2023 | 03/31/2026 |
| High Road Training Partnerships: Resilient Workforce General Fund (RWF) Program (Fast Track, Spring/Summer/Fall) | Fund projects designed to promote income mobility and shared prosperity through an innovative and inclusive human capital strategy that prioritizes job quality, supports economic and climate resilience, and links regionally-driven sector work to a statewide skills agenda. | Request for Application Award Announcement | $94,461,531.32 | $48,501,747.00 | 41 | General Fund (0001) | 04/01/2023 | 03/31/2026 |
| High Road Training Partnership Resilient Workforce Program (RWP) Winter 2023 - Round 1 | Fund training partnerships with existing high road employers to increase the number of skilled workers from underserved populations in quality jobs in priority sectors. | Request for Application Award Announcement | $108,344,069.31 | $41,512,709.00 | 18 | General Fund (0001) | 04/01/2023 | 03/312026 |
| Prison to Employment Initiative 2.0 | Available funding to Regional Planning Units (RPUs) and will be awarded based on the strength of the RPU’s application and regional factors including recidivism rate, size of the formerly incarcerated and justice-involved population, and the RPU’s performance under the first cycle of Prison to Employment Initiative grant funding. | Request for Application Award Announcement | $20,000,000.00 | $19,825,577.94 | 14 | General Fund (0001) | 01/01/2023 | 12/31/2026 |
| Regional Equity and Recovery Partnership (RERP) | RERP represents an acceleration and deepening of the existing Regional Plan Implementation efforts and will support and invest in partnerships attempting to add high road approaches to existing sector strategies and career pathway programs. | Request for Application Award Announcement | $25,000,000.00 | $25,000,000.00 | 17 | General Fund (0001) | 12/01/2022 | 12/31/2026 |
CLOSED GRANT PROGRAMS
| Program Name | Program Goals | Links | Available Funding | Amount Awarded | Grants Awarded | Funding Source | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce Accelerator Fund 11 (WAF 11) | The purpose of Accelerator 11 is to scale and replicate previous successful projects supported by the CWDB and potentially connect them to existing High Road Training Partnerships. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $3,000,000 | $2,957,546.03 | 7 | Federal/WIOA (0890) | 6/1/2023 | 3/31/2025 |
| Workforce Accelerator Fund 10 (WAF 10) | The California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) and the Employment Development Department (EDD) are pleased to announce the availability of up to $10.4 million in Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funds to design, develop, and implement projects that accelerate employment and re-employment strategies for California job seekers through the Workforce Accelerator Fund 10 WAF 10.0) grant program. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $10,400,000 | $10,386,176.80 | 38 | Federal/WIOA (0890) | 6/1/2022 | 3/31/2024 |
| Workforce Accelerator Fund 9 (WAF 9) | Improve labor market & skills outcomes through the development of strategies that fill gaps, accelerate processes, or customize services to ensure greater access to workforce services & employment opportunities. Implement, replicate and scale innovations that emerged from previous Accelerator projects. Create new modes for service delivery & funding alignment that can be replicated across the State & regionally. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $7,400,000 | $7,311,412.24 | 21 | Federal/WIOA (0890) | 6/1/2021 | 12/31/2022 |
| Workforce Accelerator Fund 8 (WAF 8) | The goal of this initiative is to seed innovative thinking, expand partnerships, and generate cross-system collaboration to address the barriers to employment faced by people experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity. Accelerator is the ground floor on the High Road. This is where innovation meets equity for Californians by testing new solutions to remove barriers, align services, and make system changes to create quality job opportunities and pathways for everyone. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $3,000,000 | $2,981,820.18 | 19 | Federal/WIOA (0890) | 4/1/2020 | 3/31/2022 |
| Workforce Accelerator Fund 7 (WAF 7) | Accelerator funds innovative solutions to accelerate system-wide changes to better address the challenges and barriers that keep Californians from achieving success in their professional lives. Through a combination of seed funding and an initiative-wide support network, Accelerator provides an opportunity for the workforce system to create services in unique ways, tailored to the needs of customers. As Accelerator has evolved, it has become crucial to bring successful strategies to scale and embed them into the workforce system, ultimately influencing system change to better serve target population(s), regionally and statewide. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $4,000,000 | $4,833,100.00 | 30 | Federal/WIOA (0890) | 4/1/2019 | 12/31/2020 |
| Regional Plan Implementation 5.0 (RPI 5.0) | The purpose of the RPI 5.0 funding is to support the RPUs in their efforts to develop regional leadership, organize regional industry leaders and workforce, education, and foster economic development partners to attain scale and impact and build the capacity of frontline workforce staff and partners. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $2,000,000 | $2,000,000 | 13 | Federal/WIOA (0890) | 1/1/2023 | 3/31/2025 |
| Regional Plan Implementation/SlingShot 4.0 (RPI 4.0) | The purpose of the RPI 4.0 funding is to support the RPUs in their efforts to develop regional leadership, and organize regional industry leaders and workforce, education, and economic development partners to promote systems change and worker empowerment by building a “high road” economy based on equity, skills, innovation, and shared prosperity that: Supports and achieves equity by assuring quality jobs for all and targets services and training to workers hardest hit by discrimination, economic exclusion, and exploitation Builds economically resilient communities by addressing environmental concerns Supports and invests collaborating with employers to assure quality jobs are generated that provide the pay, benefits, physical safety, stable schedule, and career pathways that result in economic mobility. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $5,350,000 | $5,340,000 | 18 | Federal/WIOA (0890) | 4/1/2021 | 3/31/2023 |
| Regional Plan Implementation/SlingShot 3.0 (RPI 3.0) | The purpose of the RPI/Slingshot 3.0 funding is to support the RPUs in their efforts to develop regional leadership, and organize regional industry leaders and workforce, education, and economic development partners to attain scale and impact. Fostering “demand-driven skills attainment” in ‘high road’ jobs that are in demand. Workforce and education programs need to align program content with the state’s HRTP industry sector needs to provide California’s employers and businesses with the skilled workforce necessary to compete in the global economy. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $5,000,000 | $4,961,893 | 14 | Federal/WIOA (0890) | 4/1/2020 | 3/31/2022 |
| High Road Training Partnerships (HRTP) Low Carbon Workforce Program (HRTP GGRF) | In Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-20, the Legislature appropriated $30M from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) to the California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) for its two primary high road workforce development programs: $10M for High Road Construction Careers (HRCC) and $20M for High Road Training Partnerships (HRTP). | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $20,000,000 | $19,012,545.99 | 11 | Federal/WIOA (0890) | 6/1/2021 | 3/31/2023 |
| High Road Construction Careers (HRCC) SB1 Program | The CWDB’s HRCC initiative has established twelve effective pre-apprenticeship training partnerships under the California Clean Energy Jobs Act (Prop 39). These partnerships link local Building and Construction Trades Councils (BTCs) to workforce boards, schools, and community-based organizations (CBOs), creating structured pathways—with a standard Multi-Craft Core Curriculum (MC3) and critical supportive services—to state-approved apprenticeships in a variety of crafts. The HRCC: SB 1 program will expand HRCC into a comprehensive statewide industry sector strategy through the expansion, development and support of a single HRCC pre-apprenticeship partnership in each region of California. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $14,000,000 | $13,071,282.40 | 11 | SB1 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (0329) | 9/1/2020 | 2/28/2023 |
| HRCC: SB1 Technical Assistance | In order to support the High Road Construction Careers initiative, the California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) announced the availability of up to $700,000 total in Technical Assistance (TA) to fund two distinct TA categories: Project Support (up to $500,000) and Regional Coordination (up to $200,000) to support the regional HRCC pre-apprenticeship partnerships. | NA | $700,000 | $700,000 | 1 | SB1 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (0329) | 1/1/2021 | 12/31/2022 |
| Prison to Employment (P2E) Initiative | Funding for the Prison to Employment Initiative is intended to support regional planning efforts, fund regional plan implementation, and provide resources for direct services to the formerly incarcerated and other justice-involved individuals. It also sets aside specific resources for both supportive services and earn-and-learn activities. The CWDB is interested in funding applications that advance the goals of its Strategic Plan and build workforce system infrastructure and capacity through: Collaboration among partners in the development of service delivery strategies and alignment of resources to better connect the supervised population to employment. Innovation that creates new or adapts existing approaches or accelerates application of promising practices in workforce development and skill attainment. System change that utilizes these funds to incentivize the adoption of proven strategies and innovations that are sustained beyond the grant period. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $14,000,000 | $1,662,500 | 14 | General Fund (0001) | 5/1/2019 | 3/31/2022 |
| High Road Construction Careers Low Carbon Economy Workforce Program (HRCC GGRF) | HRCC partnerships that are allotted GGRF funds must adhere to the statutory requirements of expenditures from the GGRF and CARB-issued Funding Guidelines pertaining to facilitating GHG emission reductions, benefiting priority populations, and achieving economic, environmental, and public health co-benefits. To ensure consistency with these requirements, the CWDB was required to develop a program-specific GGRF Expenditure Record, which is available on CARB’s website. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $5,600,000 | $5,594,399.65 | 8 | Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (3228) | 6/1/2021 | 3/31/2023 |
| AB 628 Breaking Barriers to Employment 2.0 | This initiative focuses on innovative approaches to, and proven practices for, addressing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in the labor market. Successful projects will create pipelines to quality jobs, upward mobility, and income security for workers historically excluded from quality jobs and economic prosperity. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $4,200,000 | $4,182,623.57 | 11 | General Fund (0001) | 5/1/2024 | 7/31/2025 |
| AB 628 Breaking Barrier to Employment Initiative | The Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative is intended to supplement existing workforce and education programs by providing services to ensure the success of individuals either preparing to enter or already enrolled in workforce and education programs. The individuals with barriers to employment completing these programs should have the skills and competencies necessary to successfully enter the labor market, retain employment, and earn wages that lead to self-sufficiency, and eventually, economic security. These services must be delivered through a collaborative partnership between mission-driven, community-based organizations with experience in providing services to the target population and local workforce development boards. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $22,760,000 | $22,748,244.11 | 42 | General Fund (0001) | 1/1/2023 | 3/31/2025 |
| Forward Focus: AB 2060 3.0 | Returning to their communities and families, they not only need to find a job, but they also often struggle with substance abuse problems, insufficient education and job skills, few housing options, and mental health issues. With the AB 2060 Initiative, CWDB piloted a program to improve employment outcomes for the supervised population by effectively aligning training, education, and intensive support services. CWDB also reached out to employers in growing industries receptive to hiring individuals with criminal backgrounds. | Awards Announcement Request For Applications | $2,000,000 | $1,600,000 | 4 | NA | 6/1/2018 | 3/31/2020 |
