Closed · FOA-ETA-17-01 · CFDA 17.261 · Discretionary

Workforce Data Quality Initiative – WDQI Round VI

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

up to $2.7M
Award range
Closed
Status
May 4, 2017
Close date
4
Expected awards

The verdict

Workforce Data Quality Initiative – WDQI Round VI is a closed discretionary listing from Employment and Training Administration that offered Up to $2,700,000 across 4 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 412 other opportunities from Employment and Training Administration.

up to $2.7M
award range
Closed
application status
4
expected awards
17.261
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Workforce Data Quality Initiative – WDQI Roun… is closed (last close May 4, 2017). The parent program page for CFDA 17.261 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 May 4, 2017

Posted Apr 4 Closes May 4

Est. Total Funding

$5,700,000

Expected Awards

4

Instrument

Grant

Description

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announces the availability of approximately $5,700,000 in grant funds authorized by Section 169 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) for the Workforce Data Quality Initiative (WDQI). WDQI grants provide funding to eligible SWAs to accomplish all, or a combination, of the following objectives: • Develop or improve the State workforce longitudinal administrative database; • Connect workforce data with education data contained in the Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS); • Improve the quality and breadth of the data in workforce longitudinal administrative databases; • Use longitudinal data to evaluate the performance of federally and State-supported education and job training programs; • Provide user-friendly information to help customers select the education and training programs that best suit their needs; and • Integrate performance, fiscal, and/or case management systems with the longitudinal administrative database. The period of performance is 36 months with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2017.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · FOA-ETA-17-01

Grants.gov marks Workforce Data Quality Initiative – WDQI Roun… 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.

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 17.261

Disability Employment Initiative

U.S. Department of Labor

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Agency Contact

Linda K. Forman Grants Management Specialist forman.linda@dol.gov

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What to do next

Workforce Data Quality Initiative – WDQI Roun… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 17.261 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • Disability Employment Initiative 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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