Through this Request for Proposals, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Technology Center (“MassCEC”) is offering Students and Young Adults Equity Workforce Career Awareness and Training Grants.
Donor Name: Massachusetts Clean Energy Technology Center (MassCEC)
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/15/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Grants help provide direct funding and technical assistance support to organizations interested in career awareness and training programming focused on supporting students and young adults who are part of one or more of the following populations:
- Individuals from Environmental Justice (“EJ”) Neighborhoods or low-income communities;
- Members of federally recognized or state-acknowledged tribes;
- Members of underrepresented communities in the clean energy workforce; and
- Current or former workers from the fossil fuel industry (“Fossil Fuel Workers”).
Objectives
Funding through this RFP will support applicants in achieving these objectives by enabling them to:
- Target students and young adults who attend schools in or are from EJ Neighborhoods or low-income communities, individuals from federally recognized or state- acknowledged tribes within the Commonwealth, members of underrepresented communities in the clean energy workforce, and Fossil Fuel Workers to explore climate-critical priority occupations.
- Create opportunities to access new and/or expand technical and job readiness training opportunities to provide the foundational skills necessary to make career choices about climate-critical priority occupations.
- Develop and nurture new relationships with employers in climate-critical sectors to create project-based learning experiences, career opportunities, and identify career pathways.
- Establish and grow wraparound and retention support services to address social and economic barriers and increase the likelihood of long-term career success.
- Address common barriers to equitable access to climate-critical careers through more intentional career awareness and navigation support.
Funding Information
Students and Young Adults Equity Workforce Career Awareness and Training Grants provide up to $600,000 to organizations interested in career awareness and training programming focused on supporting students and young adults.
The grants support programming in the following strands:
- Strand A: Clean Energy Career Awareness, Career Exploration, Career Navigation, and Preparedness
- Strand B: Career Pathway Training
- Strand C: Career Awareness Events
- Strand D: Planning and Capacity for Career Awareness or Career Pathways Training.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individual organizations or partnerships are eligible to apply. If multiple parties are applying jointly, one party should take on the role of lead applicant.
- The following entities are eligible to serve as a lead applicant:
- Community-based entities (often referred to as community-based organizations) such as community action partnerships, environmental justice organizations, neighborhood revitalization organizations, advocacy groups, affordable housing providers, affordable housing developers, and non-profits
- Post-secondary educational institutions, K-12 school districts, comprehensive and vocational high schools, middle schools, and vocational schools offering a Career Technical Initiative evening program
- For-profit entities such as training companies, trade associations, unions, or other coalitions of businesses and clean energy businesses
- Federally recognized and state-acknowledged tribes
- Workforce development organizations (non-profit or for-profit)
- Massachusetts Workforce Investment Boards and Career Centers/Mass Hire Organizations.
For more information, visit MassCEC.
