Target Customer
Learners facing barriers, including Black and Latine learners, women of all backgrounds, learners from low-income households, and first-generation postsecondary education students.
Purpose
Colleges that are selected for this opportunity will be provided with $300,000 over a two-year period. Colleges will be expected to utilize these funds to strengthen, expand, and scale effective programming that connects community and technical college learners facing systemic barriers to economic advancement to paid work-based learning experiences and/or quality jobs. Participating colleges will be expected to use these resources to expand the reach of their program(s) and enable success of participants in those programs.
Eligible to Access Funding
- Public community and technical colleges