Deadline:

Jun 12, 2007 - Closed

Program Area:

Building Human Capital

Purpose:

Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care will support partnerships to advance and reward the skill and career development of incumbent (currently employed) workers providing care and services on the front lines of our health and health care systems. The program seeks to develop and redesign systems that support and institutionalize learning and career advancement and test new models of work-based learning.

The implementation grants will fund partnerships of health and health care employers and educational institutions to promote learning, career advancement and testing of new models of work-based learning.

Program Information:

• Call for Proposals


• Overview (PDF)

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:

Jobs to Careers will support projects that involve emerging or existing partnerships of at least one health or health care employer and at least one educational institution (e.g., a community college) that provides academic credit or an industry-recognized credential. Eligible applicant organizations are employers, educational institutions or other organizations within the partnership that are public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Only one organization representing the partnership may submit a proposal.

Key Dates:

• May 16, 2007 (3 p.m. ET)—Optional Web conference for interested applicants.
• June 12, 2007 (3 p.m. ET)—Deadline for receipt of brief proposals.
• July 19, 2007—Applicants notified about invitation to submit a full proposal.
• August 30, 2007 (3 p.m. ET)—Deadline for receipt of full proposals.
• January 15, 2008—Start of grants.

Total Award:

• Up to to eight grants will be awarded.
• Applicants may apply for grants of up to $437,750 over three years. Note that this is a competitive initiative, as only nine partnerships were awarded grants out of a total of 188 applications in the previous solicitation.

Related Materials:

• View National Program Office