About this archived opportunity

The California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) is pleased to announce the Helping Justice-Involved Reenter Employment (HIRE) initiative. HIRE is a new funding opportunity for community-based organizations (CBOs) and other nonprofit organizations to provide employment services to justice-involved individuals. Approximately $50,000,000 will be available to qualified grantees. The initiative's objectives are to: ·Increase employment opportunities and job mobility for formerly incarcerated and justice-involved individuals. ·Provide training, reskilling and upskilling, and supportive services to justice-involved individuals to improve employment opportunities and job mobility. Under HIRE, CWDB seeks to fund organizations that advance the goals of its Strategic Plan and build workforce system infrastructure and capacity through: ·Collaboration among partners to develop service delivery strategies and align resources to connect the supervised population to employment. ·Innovation that creates new or adapts existing approaches or accelerates application of promising practices in workforce development and skill attainment. ·System change that utilizes these funds to incentivize the adoption of proven strategies and innovations that are sustained beyond the grant period.