25A60AC000137
Project Grant
Overview
Grant Description
Program purpose award to strengthen the ability of eligible migrant and seasonal farmworkers (MSFWs) and their dependents to obtain or retain unsubsidized employment, stabilize their unsubsidized employment and achieve economic self-sufficiency, including upgraded employment in agriculture.
Housing grant recipients work to meet a critical need for safe and sanitary permanent and temporary housing.
Grantees may be any entity familiar with the workforce challenges of migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
Congress appropriates separate funding for NFJP employment and training grants and for NFJP housing grants.
Grants run on a program year from July 1st to September 30th, and a grant competition is held every four years for state service areas.
Activities to be performed to ensure that all services are focused on the customers' needs, services are provided through a case management approach emphasizing customer choice to include:
Basic and individualized career services.
Training services - eligible MSFWs are not required to receive career services prior to receiving training services.
Youth services, as available in the WIOA youth program.
Related assistance services which includes allowance payments, which includes short-term direct assistance that helps farmworkers and their family members to retain their agricultural employment or to participate in career or training services and supportive services.
NFJP housing grantees provide farmworkers with housing assistance, including direct payments for emergency and temporary housing.
Other indirect assistance includes leveraging services to increase or maintain housing stock available to farmworkers and housing development designed to improve living conditions for underserved farmworker communities.
Deliverables expected outcome all WIOA adult funded programs require states to collect and report data to DOL on performance measures.
The targets for the states are negotiated between DOL and the states.
WIOA programs have performance outcomes of employment rate second quarter after exit, employment rate fourth quarter after exit, median earnings second quarter after exit, measurable skill gains, credential attainment rate, and effectiveness in serving employers.
Intended beneficiary(ies) eligible migrant farmworker whose agricultural labor requires travel to a job site such that the farmworker is unable to return to a permanent place of residence within the same day and a low-income seasonal farmworker who for 12 consecutive months out of the 24 months prior to application for the program has been primarily employed in agricultural or fish farming industries that are characterized by chronic unemployment or underemployment.
Eligible MSFW youth is aged 14-24 who is individually eligible or is a dependent of an eligible MSFW.
Subrecipient activities yes, grant recipients can sub to other local agencies and non-profit organizations.
Housing grant recipients work to meet a critical need for safe and sanitary permanent and temporary housing.
Grantees may be any entity familiar with the workforce challenges of migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
Congress appropriates separate funding for NFJP employment and training grants and for NFJP housing grants.
Grants run on a program year from July 1st to September 30th, and a grant competition is held every four years for state service areas.
Activities to be performed to ensure that all services are focused on the customers' needs, services are provided through a case management approach emphasizing customer choice to include:
Basic and individualized career services.
Training services - eligible MSFWs are not required to receive career services prior to receiving training services.
Youth services, as available in the WIOA youth program.
Related assistance services which includes allowance payments, which includes short-term direct assistance that helps farmworkers and their family members to retain their agricultural employment or to participate in career or training services and supportive services.
NFJP housing grantees provide farmworkers with housing assistance, including direct payments for emergency and temporary housing.
Other indirect assistance includes leveraging services to increase or maintain housing stock available to farmworkers and housing development designed to improve living conditions for underserved farmworker communities.
Deliverables expected outcome all WIOA adult funded programs require states to collect and report data to DOL on performance measures.
The targets for the states are negotiated between DOL and the states.
WIOA programs have performance outcomes of employment rate second quarter after exit, employment rate fourth quarter after exit, median earnings second quarter after exit, measurable skill gains, credential attainment rate, and effectiveness in serving employers.
Intended beneficiary(ies) eligible migrant farmworker whose agricultural labor requires travel to a job site such that the farmworker is unable to return to a permanent place of residence within the same day and a low-income seasonal farmworker who for 12 consecutive months out of the 24 months prior to application for the program has been primarily employed in agricultural or fish farming industries that are characterized by chronic unemployment or underemployment.
Eligible MSFW youth is aged 14-24 who is individually eligible or is a dependent of an eligible MSFW.
Subrecipient activities yes, grant recipients can sub to other local agencies and non-profit organizations.
Awardee
Funding Goals
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY GOAL(S) TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTIONS TO NATIONAL FARMWORKER JOBS PROGRAM (NFJP) CAREER SERVICES AND TRAINING GRANTEES.
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding Agency
Funding Agency
Place of Performance
California
United States
Geographic Scope
State-Wide
Proteus was awarded
Empowering MSFWs: Strengthening Employment and Housing Opportunities
Project Grant 25A60AC000137
worth $4,394,916
from the Office of Workforce Investment in July 2025 with work to be completed primarily in California United States.
The grant
has a duration of 1 year 2 months and
was awarded through assistance program 17.264 National Farmworker Jobs Program.
The Project Grant was awarded through grant opportunity Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Title I Program Year 2025 Funds for the National Farmworker Jobs Program.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 8/12/25
Period of Performance
7/1/25
Start Date
9/30/26
End Date
Funding Split
$4.4M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$4.4M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
25A60AC000137
SAI Number
1630:1630:AC:25A60AC000137:1:0
Award ID URI
SAIEXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
Nonprofit With 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other Than An Institution Of Higher Education)
Awarding Office
1630GM DOL (ETA) GRANTS MANAGEMENT
Funding Office
1630WS OFFICE OF WORKFORCE INVESTMENT
Awardee UEI
ZDN4L3C65UN5
Awardee CAGE
3SBA0
Performance District
CA-90
Senators
Dianne Feinstein
Alejandro Padilla
Alejandro Padilla
Modified: 8/12/25