What is The Workforce Innovation Fund?

The Workforce Innovation Fund ("the Fund") is one of several new Federal grant programs in which grantor agencies support projects that seek to design evidence-based program strategies.

The Fund supports innovation at the systems and service delivery levels. We believe that innovation at the systems level – where policies, organizational structures, planning processes, performance measurement, procurement, investment priorities, and information management systems reside – is necessary to support service delivery strategies that result in better outcomes and lower costs. In support of this goal, the Administration is seeking new ways to remove administrative, statutory, and regulatory barriers and enable a closer alignment and integration of agencies and programs with overlapping missions and clients.

ETA has announced two separate grant solicitations under the Workforce Innovation Fund:

1. The Workforce Innovation Fund Solicitation
2. The Pay for Success Solicitation

Hear what our leaders have to say about the Innovation Fund!

• Brief Intro to Workforce Innovation Fund (1:20)
• Three Agencies, One Vision: Innovation (10:59)
• Transforming the Workforce System through Innovation (27:45)