# Capacity Building

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/shtg-fy-24-03-capacity-building/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355144

> Occupational Safety and Health Administration offered grants of up to $100,000 to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make about 90 awards worth $12.8 million in total. Applications closed on July 26, 2024.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | SHTG-FY-24-03 |
| Agency | Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | July 26, 2024 |
| Award ceiling | $100,000 |
| Award floor | not stated |
| Expected awards | 90 |
| Total funding | $12.8 million |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 17.502 |

## Who can apply

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

Eligible nonprofit applicants include qualifying labor unions; community-based, faith-based, and grassroots organizations; and employer associations that are not an agency of a state or local government. Public/state-controlled institutions of higher education are eligible to apply in accordance with OMB 2 CFR 200 and DOL exceptions in 2 CFR 2900. Also eligible to apply in accordance with Executive Order 13175 are: Native American tribes; tribal organizations, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian organizations; and native-controlled organizations that are not an agency of a state or local government. Ineligible applicants are individuals; for-profit organizations; federal, state, and local agencies; 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations; and FY 2023 Susan Harwood Targeted Topic Training or Training and Educational Materials Development grantees with more than a 90-day time extension to their grant. Note: Capacity Building grantees are not eligible for a 90-day time extension.

## What the grant funds

Under the authority of Section 21 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act), the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) established its discretionary grant program in 1978. In 1997, OSHA renamed the program in honor of the late Susan Harwood, former director of the OSHA Office of Risk Assessment. The grant program offers opportunities for nonprofit organizations to compete annually for funding so they may develop and conduct training and educational programs for small business employers and workers. The Susan Harwood Training Grant Program aims to advance the job quality of the American workforce by providing disadvantaged, underserved, low-income, or other hard-to-reach, at-risk workers with hazard awareness, avoidance, and control training to protect them from on-the-job hazards, and to inform workers of their rights and employers of their responsibilities under the OSH Act. The program and this funding opportunity announcement prioritize investment and funding to train workers and employers impacted by working in high-hazard industries, industries with high fatality rates, or whose workforce has historically had disadvantaged access to occupational safety and health training including young workers, temporary, minority, low literacy, limited-English speaking, and other disadvantaged and hard-to-reach workers and worker communities. The Susan Harwood Training Grant Program seeks to increase access to life-saving training by encouraging grantees to provide training in other languages. Technical assistance, guidance, and support for this funding opportunity is presented in OSHA’s FY 2024 Susan Harwood Training Grant Funding Opportunity Overview available at: www.osha.gov/harwoodgrants/applicant-information. The program is designed to support nonprofit organizations’ efforts to provide this important occupational safety and health training to disadvantaged workers. These nonprofit organizations include qualifying labor unions; community-based, faith-based, and grassroots organizations; employer associations; Native American tribes; tribal Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and native-controlled organizations that are not an agency of a state or local government; and public/state-controlled institutions of higher education. The program provides education and training on advancement of workers’ workplace rights and protections against discrimination and reprisal.

## Questions people ask

### Is SHTG-FY-24-03 still open?

No. It closed on July 26, 2024.

### Who can apply for Capacity Building?

Occupational Safety and Health Administration accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for Capacity Building?

Closed July 26, 2024. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $100,000 each. About $12.8 million in total across about 90 awards.

### Who has won Occupational Safety and Health Susan Harwood Training Grants grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were Georgia Tech Research Corp, Northern Illinois University, University of California, San Diego. The program made 447 awards worth $61.1 million in that time.