Notice of Funding Opportunity
State Agency Name: Iowa Workforce Development
Funding Opportunity Title: Future Ready Iowa Expanded Registered Apprenticeship Program(15C)
Announcement Type : Initial
Important Dates:
Deadline: Grant applications are due by February 1, 2023, at 12:00 p.m. Central Standard Time.
· Application Notification: A Notice of Intent to Award will be posted on the following website: https://www.earnandlearniowa.gov/funding
· Guidance: Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) will provide information and updates on the Earn and Learn Iowa website https://www.earnandlearniowa.gov/funding
Program Description
Purpose: The purpose of the Future Ready Iowa Expanded Registered Apprenticeship Program (15C.1) is to provide financial assistance to encourage apprenticeship sponsors of new apprenticeship programs or expansion programs, with twenty or fewer apprentices to maintain apprenticeship programs in high-demand occupations.
Funding Priorities
There are no listed priorities associated with this award.
Qualifications for Eligibility
All applications must include performance measures that logically connect a project’s goal(s) with proposed activities and demonstrate a new or expanded Registered Apprenticeship Program within a high-demand occupation. Required performance measures to be addressed within the application include but are not limited to:
Twenty or fewer apprentices are registered in the apprenticeship program as of December 31, 2022. More than seventy percent of the applicant’s apprentices are residents of Iowa, and the remainder of the applicant’s apprentices are residents of states contiguous to Iowa. The applicant/apprenticeship sponsor must have an apprenticeship program that has been registered by the DOL/OA with at least one eligible apprentice.
