The Massachusetts Clean Energy Technology Center (“MassCEC”) is requesting proposals from eligible applicants with significant expertise and experience in creating learner-centered curricula, short point of view documentary videos, interactive clean energy career websites and/or hands on classroom materials for implementation to students across the state taking part in career and college readiness programs that include exposure to and experience in clean energy career pathways.
Donor Name: Massachusetts Clean Energy Technology Center (MassCEC)
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/03/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,040,000
Details:
The curriculum will be based on state frameworks, multimodal in design, and agile modular, to allow teachers to adapt the implementation to fit their classrooms best.
The MassCEC is prioritizing students’ learning about climate-critical jobs through effective instructional practices inclusive of all learners across the state, and is seeking an effective, engagingly designed curriculum enriched by interactive learning materials and videos profiling clean energy careers. The goals of these expanded clean energy career awareness resources are to:
- Educate students about the fundamentals of clean energy (high-performance buildings, clean transportation, offshore wind, net-zero grid);
- Increase awareness about clean energy career pathways; and
- Highlight career opportunities that clean energy offers to students.
Funding Information
Total Funding Available: $1,040,000
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Applicants may be individuals, organizations, or a partnership/team with a range of expertise and experience to deliver a comprehensive proposal.
- The following includes, but is not limited to, entities that may be interested in applying:
- Individuals with relevant expertise and documented work history serving as a consultant;
- Private for-profit and nonprofit organizations with relevant expertise, such as educational technology companies, video production companies, youth-serving educational organizations, training companies, trade associations, consulting firms, or other coalitions of businesses; and
- Private and public colleges or universities.
- Applicants must:
- Be based in Massachusetts, have staff or contractors in Massachusetts, or staff who can remotely support the proposed work;
- Have relevant experience and qualifications for the proposed scope of work;
- Have some knowledge and understanding relevant to clean energy workforce development and can clearly articulate these linkages to specific climate-critical occupations or fields; and
- Can demonstrate a proven capacity to deliver similar scopes of work both on time and budget.
For more information, visit MassCEC.
