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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
FTA-2012-011-TRI
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Jun 14, 2012
Creation Date:
Jun 14, 2012
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Jul 06, 2012
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Jul 06, 2012
Archive Date:
Aug 05, 2012
Funding Instrument Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity:
Education
Employment, Labor and Training
Transportation
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
24
Estimated Total Program Funding:
$5,000,000
Award Ceiling:
$1,000,000
Award Floor:
$100,000
CFDA Number(s):
20.514
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Public Transportation Research
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
Public transit agencies, state departments of transportation (DOTs) providing public transportation services; and Indian tribes, non-profit institutions and institutions of higher education.
Agency Name
DOT/Federal Transit Administration
Description
FTA Workforce Development activities are authorized by 49 U.S.C. 5322, Human Resource Programs. The Innovative Transit Workforce Development Program is intended to exercise this authority by providing funding to transit agencies and other entities with innovative solutions to pressing workforce development issues.
In its second funding iteration, FTA seeks applications that showcase and support products and approaches that improve the state of the practice of workforce development.
Specific focus is given to those: 1) projects or programs that demonstrate innovative methods of leveraging investments in public transportation infrastructure to generate possible impacts in local employment, particularly in underserved communities; 2) innovative projects or programs that support the training/professional development needs of blue-collar workers, particularly in the area of new and emerging technologies; and 3) projects that support or showcase innovative methods of encouraging youth to pursue careers in public transportation.
If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement
electronically, please contact:
Betty Jackson
Office of Research, Demonstration and Innovation (Room E43-425)
Federal Transit Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20590
Phone: 202-366-1730
Betty Jackson
Synopsis Modification History
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