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| 00-10585 | Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations DOL FY 2000 Budget, Training and Employment Services (TES) 1600174 | Notice | All information required to submit a proposal is contained in this announcement. Applicants for grant funds should read this notice in its entirety and respond as directed. Grant proposals that are not completed as directed will be judged nonresponsive and will not be evaluated. The Women's Bureau (WB), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announces the Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) authorized under the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) Act of 1992. The major provisions of the WANTO legislation are to "assist business in providing women with opportunities in apprenticeship and nontraditional occupations." The WANTO grant program funds Community- Based Organizations (CBOs) to provide technical assistance (TA) to employers and labor unions (E/LUs) that will "enable business to meet the challenge of Workforce 2000." The challenge is greater than the shortage of skilled workers in construction trades, and it is especially acute in recruiting and retaining workers with technology skills in nonconstruction industries with increasing inputs of technological innovation that interfaces with computer-based information technology, e.g., telecommunications, utilities, manufacturing, transportation, and services. The Women's Bureau co-administers WANTO with the DOL's Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training (BAT), with the WB having responsibility for implementing the grant process. Congress first appropriated funds for WANTO in Fiscal Year (FY) 1994, under JTPA (Title IV-D). JTPA expires on June 30, 2000, and will be superseded by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) on July 1, 2000. WANTO (FY) 2000 is funded by DOL (FY) 2000 Budget: Training and Employment Services (TES) 1600174. The Department of Labor will competitively award grants to CBOs who represent the best from the segment of CBOs actively involved in pre- apprenticeship and skills training, advocacy, technical assistance to employers/labor unions, mentorship, and other support services to increase the participation of women in apprenticeship and skilled, high-pay nontraditional occupations (A/NTO). These CBOs must provide TA to E/LUs to prepare them to successfully recruit, train, and retain women in apprenticeable and other skilled high-pay nontraditional occupations. In addition, TA must include strategic planning with E/LUs for identifying sources of support services--child care, transportation, and necessary transitional costs--to ensure the successful transition of women to apprenticeship and other skilled high-pay workplaces. As a result, the Department expects employers and labor unions "to expand the employment and self-sufficiency options of women." Further, the Department will give priority consideration to proposals in the following order: (1) CBOs in the 32 States previously unserved by WANTO, (2) CBOs working to employ women with physical and/or cognitive disabilities in skilled high-pay jobs, (3) CBOs with diverse race-ethnic backgrounds, and (4) CBOs with programs to provide TA to E/LUs that assist women to make the transition from welfare to pre-apprenticeship, apprenticeship, and other entry-level skilled nontraditional employment. Applicant CBOs should document the extent of their: (1) Established and growing employer/labor union working relationships; (2) Proven service delivery to assist women to enter and remain in A/NTO as the major component of its employment and training activities, including outreach, orientation, mentoring, support groups, networks, workplace consultations (including troubleshooting and other work site resolution practices), employee and supervisory workshops, seminars and other workplace specific strategic planning to increase the participation of women in A/NTO; and (3) recognized leadership credentials in the A/NTO community that also promotes leadership in social and economic change for women and their families to economic self-sufficiency, as well as mentoring relationships with other CBOs working in A/NTO. The above discussion summarizes the general focus of SGA 00-03; however, applicants are again urged to read the SGA in its entirety to ensure that their submission is fully responsive to SGA 00-03. WANTO grant awards are competitive and based only on how responsive an applicant's proposal is to the SGA and its evaluation criteria. This notice describes the background, the application process, statement of work, evaluation criteria, and reporting requirements for this Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA 00-03). WB anticipates that a total amount of $927,000 will be available for the support of all Fiscal Year 2000. (See Part II. C. and Part III. A.2.f. for funding limitations per grant.) | 2000-04-28 | 2000 | 4 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/04/28/00-10585/women-in-apprenticeship-and-nontraditional-occupations-dol-fy-2000-budget-training-and-employment | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2000-04-28/pdf/00-10585.pdf | Labor Department | 271 | All information required to submit a proposal is contained in this announcement. Applicants for grant funds should read this notice in its entirety and respond as directed. Grant proposals that are not completed as directed will be judged nonresponsive... |