This announcement solicits applications for Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program (HVRP), Incarcerated Veterans’ Transition Program (IVTP), and the Homeless Women Veterans’ and Veterans’ with Children Program (HWVHVWC) (referred to collectively as HVRP).
Donor Name: Veterans Employment and Training Service
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/30/2023
Size of the Grant: $500,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
The intent of HVRP, an employment-focused competitive Federal grant program, is to enable America’s veterans to reach their full employment potential and obtain high-quality career outcomes for veterans experiencing homelessness. The Department encourages applicants to propose strategies to achieve economic prosperity, address historical inequities, and provide equitable access and outcomes to marginalized groups.
In 2022, the Departments of Labor and Commerce published the Good Jobs Principles, which strike a shared vision of job quality by describing core elements of good jobs. Applicants are encouraged to consult the Principles as they shape their proposed projects. Successful applicants must demonstrate (through direct services or referrals) clear strategies to provide needed career exploration and placement services, career training, and support services to eligible veterans, so they may secure good jobs in stable, high-demand occupations earning livable wages. DOL/VETS requires applicants to propose strategies to achieve economic prosperity and address historical inequities. Such strategies may include the following:
- Addressing and advancing equity through adjustments in recruitment, service design, implementation, and support services that aim to remove barriers to the full and equal participation of marginalized communities and through partnerships with a range of organizations that support the applicant’s ability to reach out to and deliver equitable services to marginalized groups;
- Designing flexible approaches to service delivery to allow for in-person, virtual, socially distanced, or hybrid models of services and training;
- Demonstrating a need for the program based upon current statistical or empirical evidence, including the numbers and characteristics of the eligible veterans who are experiencing homelessness in the proposed service delivery area(s);
- Establishing strong support between public, private, and nonprofit organizations, especially those that are led by and/or include people who have experienced homelessness;
- Developing and implementing strategies with attainable goals for job training based on labor market information (LMI);
- Collaborating and coordinating with organizations to ensure that local, state, and federal resources are used effectively and efficiently to expedite the reintegration of eligible veterans into the labor force;
- Implementing effective outreach on behalf of the participant to facilitate the delivery of effective job training, counseling, and other wraparound services, such as the provision of housing, transportation, childcare, and necessary health services (including mental health), as the means for expediting the reintegration of eligible veterans into the labor force;
- Providing services specifically tailored to the needs of women veterans experiencing homelessness and homeless veterans with children;
- Providing services specifically tailored to the needs of incarcerated veterans or veterans recently released from incarceration who are at risk of homelessness;
- Demonstrating ability to provide services to episodically homeless veterans, as appropriate;
- Partnering with employers who give workers a voice on the job and a free and fair chance to collectively bargain, including permitting union organizer access to workers; and
- Partnering with employers who provide adequate health insurance, mental health coverage, and pension/retirement coverage, work-family benefits, such as paid family medical leave, paid sick leave, and other paid time off.
Funding Information
Foundation expect availability of approximately $25,000,000 in grant funds to award the first year of the three-year period of performance. Applicants may apply for a ceiling amount of up to $500,000 each year, with a total of up to $1,500,000 for the three-year period of performance for program years covering July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2026. Applications must not exceed this amount. Although this grant has a three-year period of performance, budget documents must reflect the first year of funding only.
Period of Performance
The period of performance is 36 months with an anticipated start date of 07/01/2023, and an end date of 06/30/2026. This performance period includes all necessary implementation, start-up activities, and follow-up activities.
Eligible Applicants
- City or township governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- County governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Small businesses
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- State governments
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
