Closed · FOA-ETA-20-07 · CFDA 17.261 · Discretionary

Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants

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

up to $5M
Award range
Closed
Status
October 8, 2020
Close date
16
Expected awards

The verdict

Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants is a closed discretionary listing from Employment and Training Administration that offered Up to $5,000,000 across 16 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 $5M
award range
Closed
application status
16
expected awards
17.261
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Strengthening Community Colleges Training Gra… is closed (last close October 8, 2020). 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 October 8, 2020

Posted Jul 8 Closes Oct 8

Est. Total Funding

$40,000,000

Expected Awards

16

Instrument

Grant

Description

The Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants program (referred to as Strengthening Community Colleges or SCC) will build the capacity of community colleges to collaborate with employers and the public workforce development system to meet local and regional labor market demand for a skilled workforce. The purpose of this grant is (1) to increase the capacity and responsiveness of community colleges to address the skill development needs of employers and dislocated and unemployed workers, incumbent workers, and new entrants to the workforce; (2) to offer this spectrum of workers and other individuals accelerated career pathways that enable them to gain skills and transition from unemployment to (re)employment quickly; and (3) to address the new challenges associated with the COVID-19 health crisis that necessitate social distancing practices and expanding online and technology-enabled learning and migrating services to a virtual environment.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · FOA-ETA-20-07

Grants.gov marks Strengthening Community Colleges Training Gra… 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 codes span Employment, Labor and Training · Opportunity Zones (ELT;OZ). 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

Steven A Canger Grants Management Specialist Canger.Steven.A@dol.gov

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What to do next

Strengthening Community Colleges Training Gra… 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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Data sourced from the SAM.gov Assistance Listings and Grants.gov. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainGrants