Biden-Harris administration awards $71M in grants to improve job quality, prepare workers, expand access to good jobs in critical sectors

WASHINGTON - The Biden-Harris administration announced the award of approximately $71 million in grants to improve job quality, expand access to good jobs in critical sectors and prepare workers for good-paying jobs being created by the administration's Investing in America agenda.

Funding from the U.S. Department of Labor's Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Program, Critical Sectors Job Quality Grants Programand Workforce Pathways for Youth programwill support 27 organizations serving 14 states and the District of Columbia.

"The funding we're announcing today advances the Biden-Harris administration's goal of promoting worker-focused training programs that incorporate industry and worker voices," said Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su. "The grants will help enhance access to quality jobs for care workers and people in other critical sectors, broaden high-quality job training and career opportunities for youth and strengthen public-private partnerships that prepare workers for high-quality infrastructure jobs."

The department awarded nearly $38 million through the second round of the Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs Grant Programto enable 13 public-private partnerships across nine states to prepare workers for the good-paying infrastructure jobs the Biden-Harris administration is creating. The funding announced today - with the $94 million the department announced in September 2023- is a combined investment of more than $130 million to support the growing demand for a skilled infrastructure workforce.

Through the Critical Sectors Job Qualitygrants, totaling $13 million, eight organizations will design and deploy programs in 10 states to improve job quality and increase the availability of good jobs in the care, climate resilience and hospitality industries. The round of funding announced today aligns with the Good Jobs Principlesdeveloped by the departments of Labor and Commerce and emphasizes improving job quality within the care sector. Three recipients, representing half the total funding, will specifically focus on care occupations, including childcare and direct care workers.

The department also awarded nearly $20 million in Workforce Pathways for Youthdemonstration grants to six national organizations that provide workforce development and training programs to youth after school and over the summer. The grants will help the organizations partner with state and local organizations that serve marginalized and underserved youth, ages 14 to 21, including Native American youth. Through the partnerships, these out-of-school-time organizations will provide workforce readiness programming to expand job training and workforce pathways for youth, including soft skill development, career exploration, job readiness, work-based learning opportunities and work experiences.

As the Investing in America agenda continues to create good-paying jobs nationwide, recipients of the Workforce Pathways for Youth, Building Pathways to Infrastructure and Critical Sectors grants will help build an "opportunity infrastructure" in which workers understand what skills they need, have access to the training to develop those skills - without roadblocks or barriers - and are connected to those jobs early.

The recipients of Building Pathways to Infrastructure Jobs grants are as follows:

Recipient	City	State	Amount
UNITE-LA Inc.	Los Angeles	CA	$2,000,000
Contra Costa County	Martinez	CA	$5,000,000
Humanmade	San Francisco	CA	$2,000,000
City and County of Denver	Denver	CO	$5,000,000
City of Refuge Inc.	Atlanta	GA	$1,944,883
Jane Addams Resource Corporation	Chicago	IL	$4,789,579
Revolution Workshop	Chicago	IL	$2,000,000
Goodwill Industries International Inc.	Rockville	MD	$5,000,000
Governor's Office of Workforce Innovation	Las Vegas	NV	$1,998,841
Pursuit Transformation Company Inc	Long Island City	NY	$2,000,000
Philadelphia Works Inc.	Philadelphia	PA	$1,999,973
Texas A&M University	College Station	TX	$1,997,570
Workforce Solutions Alamo	San Antonio	TX	$2,000,000
Total Awarded			$37,730,846

The recipients of the Critical Sectors Job Quality grants are as follows:

Recipient	City	State	Amount
Alaska Southcentral/Southeastern Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 23 Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee	Anchorage	AK	$2,415,709
SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West Local 2005	Oakland	CA	$3,000,000
National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation	Washington	DC	$499,890
Charles Stewart Mott Community College	Flint	MI	$2,971,060
Workforce Development Board of Herkimer Madison and Oneida Counties Inc.	Utica	NY	$398,657
Seattle-King County Workforce Development Council	Seattle	WA	$3,000,000
Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO	Seattle	WA	$500,000
United Way of Dane County Inc.	Madison	WI	$147,384
Total Awarded			$12,932,700

The recipients of the Workforce Pathways for Youth grants are as follows:

Recipient	City	State	Amount
After-School All-Stars	Los Angeles	CA	$3,159,034
STEM Next Opportunity Fund	San Diego	CA	$3,299,928
Bridges From School to Work Inc.	Bethesda	MD	$3,294,240
National Urban League Inc.	New York	NY	$3,300,000
Jobs for America's Graduates	Alexandria	VA	$3,300,000
Phi Delta Kappa International Inc	Arlington	VA	$3,299,998
Total Awarded			$19,653,200

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