Grants and Other Financial Assistance Programs: FY2010

Funding priority will be given to One Stop Career Centers that have demonstrated previous success in providing student services. In addition, priority will be given to applicants that:

1. promote student academic achievement by maximizing access to a) academic remediation services in English language arts and mathematics, as well as b) related support services available in the service delivery area. Proposed initiatives must develop a process to provide identified students with intake, assessment, ongoing support, and data management to monitor student progress;

2. demonstrate strong partnerships with schools/districts, Local Workforce Investment Boards, community colleges, and other relevant community partners;

3. propose innovative recruitment, extensive marketing, and outreach to post-12^th grade students to establish a network of contacts as part of the initiative design;

4. have the capacity to serve post-12^th grade students from both local and regional areas;

5. demonstrate staff experience in working with an at-risk population (examples of demonstrated experience may include participation in Connecting Activities, Communities and Schools for Success (CS²), Workforce Investment Act older youth services, or other related older youth services); and

6. coordinate service delivery with other available resources, where they exist, in a service delivery region, including: school districts; Connecting Activities; Workforce Investment Act services; CS2; or other related student services. Whenever possible, service providers should be knowledgeable of, coordinate with, and further develop existing educational plans such as Educational Proficiency Plan (EPP) documents from school systems and any existing Individual Service Strategy (ISS) documents developed as a result of services received through the Workforce Investment Act.

School Year Program (Fund Code: 627) Upon Approval - 6/30/2010

Summer Program (Fund Code: 626) 7/1/2010 - 8/31/2010

Friday, June 5, 2009

Proposals must be received at the Department by 5:00 p.m. on the date due.

To apply for funding, submit a grant application that includes all of the required elements.

If applying for both Fund Code: 627 (School Year) and Fund Code: 626 (Summer), submit a separate packet of Required Forms for each, including a fund-code specific Part I Signature Page, Part II Budget and Budget Narrative, and Part III Application.

1.      Part I: Fund Code: 627 for School Year Program - Program Unit Signature Page
   (Part I - General: Standard Contract Form and Application for Program Grants)

2.      Part I: Fund Code: 626 for Summer Program - Program Unit Signature Page
   (Part I - General: Standard Contract Form and Application for Program Grants)

3.      Part II Workbook - Budget (II-A) and Budget Narrative (II-B)

   (Print and mail with the application all four budget and budget narrative pages. See important opening instructions at the bottom of this section.*)

4.     Part III - Required Program Information

   Application for the Pathways One Stop Career Center Initiative.

5.     Addendum A - Pathways Initiative FY2010 Collaboration Agreement Between Higher Education Institutions, One Stop Career Centers, and other Partners

*NOTE: The Budget and Budget Narrative Workbook is a Microsoft Excel file which includes macros that enable the workbook to compute totals and summary tables.

1. For Microsoft Office 2000/2003, you may need to change the security setting in Excel before opening the file. In Excel, click 'Tools', 'Macro', and then 'Security'. When the dialog box appears, change the security setting to 'Medium' and then click 'OK'. You can now open the budget file.

2. For Microsoft Office 2007, you must save the workbook as an earlier version of Excel (.xls not .xlsx).

1. Budget Detail - Description of Line Item Information

2. pathways narrative evaluation guidelines and pathways activity data report

   Program coordinators must use the Pathways Narrative Evaluation Guidelines to report on the overall effectiveness of the program and the Pathways Activity Data Report generated through MOSES. The Narrative Report and Pathways Activity Data Reports are due on January 29, 2010, and July 30, 2010, for School Year programs and on September 30, 2010, for Summer programs.

3. Required Student Data Submissions - Data Collection Template

   Individual student data are required to be submitted through the Department's Security Portal. These data are due on June 30, 2010, for the School Year program (Fund Code: 627) and September 30, 2010, for the Summer program (Fund Code: 626). Details will be provided by the Department to all grant recipients and will be posted to the Academic Support Data Collection website - http://www.doe.mass.edu/as/data/.

4. Professional Development/Technical Assistance Sessions

   Grantees are expected to have personnel (coordinators, data entry staff, instructors, etc.) attend appropriate Academic Support professional development workshop and data training sessions. We welcome your input and feedback on the workshops. A schedule of sessions will be sent to grantees and posted on the Department's Academic Support website (http://www.doe.mass.edu/as/pd/).

5. Scoring Rubrics

   Available upon request (See Contact information above.)

Submit four (4) sets, each with an original signature of the Superintendent/Executive Director.

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