Closed · FOA-ETA-18-04 · CFDA 17.274 · Discretionary

YouthBuild

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

$700K-$1.1M
Award range
Closed
Status
September 18, 2018
Close date
85
Expected awards

The verdict

YouthBuild is a closed discretionary listing from Employment and Training Administration that offered $700,000 -- $1,100,000 across 85 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 412 other opportunities from Employment and Training Administration.

$700K-$1.1M
award range
Closed
application status
85
expected awards
17.274
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

YouthBuild is closed (last close September 18, 2018). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. 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 September 18, 2018

Posted May 18 Closes Sep 18

Est. Total Funding

$85,000,000

Expected Awards

85

Instrument

Grant

Cost Sharing

Required

Description

The Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announces the availability of approximately $85 million in grant funds authorized by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) (Pub. L. 113-128) for YouthBuild. Under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), DOL will award grants through a competitive process to organizations providing pre-apprenticeship services that support education, occupational skills training, and employment services to at-risk youth, ages 16 to 24, while performing meaningful work and service to their communities. In addition to construction skills training, YouthBuild applicants may include occupational skills training in other in-demand industries. This expansion into additional in-demand industries is the Construction Plus component, a priority in this grant competition. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, DOL hopes to serve approximately 5,250 participants during the grant period of performance, with approximately 85 projects awarded across the country. Individual grants will range from $700,000 to $1.1 million and require a 25 percent match from applicants, using sources other than Federal funding.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · FOA-ETA-18-04

Grants.gov marks YouthBuild 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. Applicant cost-sharing is required on the Grants.gov extract. 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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Agency Contact

Katie Neupane Grants Management Specialist Neupane.Katie.E@dol.gov

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