H-1B Job Training Grants
Department Of Labor, Employment And Training Administration
The H-1B Skills Training Grants provide training and related activities to workers to assist them in gaining the skills and competencies needed to obtain or upgrade employment in high-growth industries or economic sectors. Over time, these education and training programs will help businesses reduce their use of skilled foreign professionals permitted to work in the U.S. on a temporary basis under the H-1B visa program.
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Helps workers, including those underemployed or unemployed, get training for in-demand jobs. Supports programs like apprenticeships to build skills in fields like IT and healthcare.
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What Is This Program?
What Benefits Are Offered?
Funds projects that provide training and related activities to workers to assist them in gaining the skills needed to obtain or upgrade employment in high-growth industries or economic sectors, aiming to prepare Americans for high-skill jobs and reduce dependence on foreign labor. Specific programs have also offered outcomes-based partial reimbursement of training costs.
Who Is Eligible?
Industries: high-growth industries, emerging industry sectors, shipbuilding, artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, nuclear energy, domestic mineral production, information technology, professional, scientific, and technical services, renewable energy, transportation, broadband infrastructure, healthcare, nursing, behavioral and mental healthcare, cybersecurity
Region: United States
Other Criteria: Projects must provide training and related activities to workers, Training assists workers in gaining skills for employment or upgrading in high-growth industries, Aims to prepare Americans for high-skill jobs, reducing dependence on foreign labor, Applicants are typically State Workforce Agencies or public-private partnerships, Emphasis on worker-centered sector strategy training programs, Requires partnerships with eligible employers
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📋What Are the Application Steps & Timeline?
- 📝Steps to Apply
- Identify geographic scope of the proposed project
- Form a partnership with required entities
- Prepare documentation of partnership commitments
- Submit application electronically on grants.gov
- 🌐Application Portal
- https://www.grants.gov
- 📤Submission Method
- online
- 📅Key Dates
- November 13, 2020Application Deadline
- 🔄Intake Type
- fixed-deadline
📄What Documents Are Required?
- ✅Required Documents
- Documentation of Partnership Commitment
- Signed memoranda of understanding
- Partnership agreement
- Other types of signed agreements
- 📎Optional Documents
- Letters of Commitment
- 📐Format Requirements
- PDF only, max 10MB
- ✉️Supporting Letters
- Letters of Commitment from required and optional partner organizations
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This program offers funding up to $145,000,000 (minimum $38,000,000).
This program accepts applications on a rolling basis.
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