The May 2022 edition of the RWFI E-Note Monthly, the newsletter of NETL’s Regional Workforce Initiative (RWFI), is now available and includes details on a range of grant funding and training opportunities.

Highlights include:

• Details on the latest Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities (WORC) grant funding from the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). DOL has announced availability of approximately $34M in grant funds authorized by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) for the fourth round of WORC Initiative demonstration grants. The purpose of the grant is to create economic mobility, address historic inequities for marginalized communities of color and other underserved and underrepresented communities, and produce high-quality employment for workers who reside in the Appalachian and Delta regions, enabling them to remain and thrive in these communities.

The WORC Initiative provides funding to eligible applicants proposing to meet this goal with a project addressing the employment and training needs of the local and regional workforce, created in collaboration with community partners and aligned with existing economic and workforce development plans and strategies.

The deadline to apply for funding proposals is July 8, 2022.

• Information about new opportunities from the National Science Foundation’s Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP), which provides awards to federally recognized tribal colleges and universities, Alaska Native-serving institutions, and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions to promote high quality science.

Support is available to TCUP-eligible institutions for transformative capacity-building or community engagement projects through Instructional Capacity Excellence in TCUP Institutions. Subjects include sociology, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, economics and bioeconomics, statistics, and other social and behavioral sciences; natural sciences; computer science — including artificial intelligence, quantum information science, and cybersecurity; STEM (science, technology, engineering and math); and STEM education, research, and outreach.

The deadline to apply for funding proposals is June 1, 2022.

• The National Science Foundation, in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security, is offering a cybersecurity scholarship program to recruit and train the next generation of American cybersecurity professionals to meet the needs of the cybersecurity mission for federal, state, local, and tribal governments.

The deadline for applications is July 15, 2022

Previous editions of RWFI E-Note Monthly can be found in the newsletter’s online archive. Click here for more information about the NETL Regional Workforce Initiative.

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