Training and Employment Guidance Letter (02-26) for FY 2026 Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending

The U.S. Department of Labor, through the Employment and Training Administration, is administering the Training and Employment Guidance Letter (02-26) for Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending. The opportunity is identified as ETA-TEGL-02-26 and uses Assistance Listing 17.289, Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending. It is a federal discretionary grant opportunity categorized by Grants.gov under Employment, Labor and Training. The notice identifies 108 expected awards and estimated total program funding of $95,501,000. The funding opportunity is specifically directed to Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending recipients. Eligibility is not open to organizations generally. Only the organizations specified in the Explanatory Statement for Division B of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, and named in Appendix I of the Training and Employment Guidance Letter are eligible to receive grant awards. The supplied notice does not provide a broader set of eligible applicant classes or establish general geographic eligibility that would permit organizations not named in Appendix I to apply. The program provides individual awards ranging from $50,000 to $5,320,000. The estimated total funding available is $95,501,000, with 108 awards expected. No cost sharing or matching requirement applies. The supplied Grants.gov synopsis does not state additional allowable cost categories, indirect cost restrictions, subaward limits, project period requirements, or other detailed spending restrictions. Applicants should therefore rely on the full Training and Employment Guidance Letter and its applicable materials for requirements not reproduced in the supplied synopsis. Applications are to be submitted electronically. The current closing date is January 31, 2027, and applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. The opportunity was posted on August 25, 2026. The original closing date was September 21, 2026, but the current Grants.gov synopsis has replaced that deadline with January 31, 2027. No letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, or other pre-application gating requirement is identified in the supplied material. The supplied synopsis also does not enumerate application questions, required narrative sections, attachments, forms, or other application components beyond electronic submission. The supplied material does not identify scored evaluation criteria, review factors, selection priorities, or a notification date. It also does not provide an award start date or period of performance. Because no annual, biennial, quarterly, or other recurring application schedule is stated, the opportunity is treated as nonrecurring based on the available information. As of August 26, 2026, the opportunity is accepting applications because it was posted on August 25, 2026 and the current deadline of January 31, 2027 has not passed. Questions regarding the Training and Employment Guidance Letter may be directed to the Community Projects Unit within the Office of Grants Management at Community.Projects.ETA@dol.gov. The notice encourages FY 2026 sponsored recipient organizations to use the Grants.gov subscription option to register for future updates concerning this particular Training and Employment Guidance Letter. No individual grantor contact person or telephone number is identified in the supplied material.

Confirm that the applicant organization is specifically named in Appendix I before applying; submit electronically no later than January 31, 2027 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time; use the Grants.gov subscription option to receive future updates for this Training and Employment Guidance Letter.