Closed · SGA-DFA-PY-11-05 · CFDA 17.283 · Discretionary

Workforce Innovation Fund

Federal grant opportunity posted by Employment and Training Administration, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$1M-$12M
Award range
Closed
Status
March 22, 2012
Close date
25
Expected awards

The verdict

Workforce Innovation Fund is a closed discretionary listing from Employment and Training Administration that offered $1,000,000 -- $12,000,000 across 25 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 412 other opportunities from Employment and Training Administration.

$1M-$12M
award range
Closed
application status
25
expected awards
17.283
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Workforce Innovation Fund is closed (last close March 22, 2012). The parent program page for CFDA 17.283 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. Employment and Training Administration still indexes 412 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed March 22, 2012

Posted Dec 22 Closes Mar 22

Est. Total Funding

$98,500,000

Expected Awards

25

Instrument

Grant

Description

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announces the availability of approximately $98.5 million in Workforce Innovation Fund grants authorized by the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 (P.L. 112-10). These funds support innovative approaches to the design and delivery of employment and training services that generate long-term improvements in the performance of the public workforce system, both in terms of outcomes for job seeker and employer customers and cost-effectiveness.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · SGA-DFA-PY-11-05

Grants.gov marks Workforce Innovation Fund with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Employment, Labor and Training (ELT). This eligibility-code string dominates the Employment and Training Administration book (353 peers, 85% of 413).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

Official Listing on Grants.gov

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 17.283

Work Opportunity Tax Credit

U.S. Department of Labor

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Agency Contact

Ariam Ferro Grants Management Specialist Phone 202-693-3968

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What to do next

Workforce Innovation Fund is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 17.283 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • Work Opportunity Tax Credit indexes 0 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • Employment and Training Administration lists 412 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

Opportunity deadlines and eligibility change on Grants.gov; PlainGrants mirrors the extract and is not the submission system.

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Data sourced from the SAM.gov Assistance Listings and Grants.gov. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainGrants