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FOA-WB-21-02: Fostering Access, Rights, and Equity (FARE)

Closed Closed July 15, 2021 Opportunity FOA-WB-21-02 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$350,000
• Award floor$250,000
• Total funding$1.5 million
• Expected awards5
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Only State Governments, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are eligible to apply for these grants.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Women's Bureau awards averaged $450,770; this notice allows up to $350,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (63% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), partnering with the Employment and Training Administration (ETA), announces $1,500,000.00 for states and territories to participate in the Fostering Access, Rights, and Equity (FARE) grant initiative. This program will allow award recipients to undertake projects to assist underserved and marginalized low-income women workers in understanding and accessing their employment rights, public services, and benefits. The FARE grant program will support the Women’s Bureau’s and the Department of Labor’s mandate to implement the provisions of Executive Order 13985, which charges the Department with identifying and addressing barriers to more equitable access to public benefits, services, and protections. These grants will build on the success of recent initiatives to reach working women, including but not limited to women of color, women with disabilities, and justice-involved women to assist them. More generally, evidence gathered in this initial round of FARE grants could be applied to future grant programs at DOL aimed at other community partnerships.

Category: Other.

Applying now

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