[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 8, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 47440]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-19370]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of Disability Employment Policy


Office of the Assistant Secretary for Office of Disability 
Employment Program National Center on Leadership for Employment and 
Advancement of People With Disabilities

AGENCY: Office of Disability Employment Policy, Department of Labor.
    Announcement Type: New Notice of Availability of Funds and 
Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA) for Cooperative Agreements. 
The full announcement is posted on http://www.grants.gov.
    Funding Opportunity Number: SGA-12-14.
    Key Dates: The closing date for receipt of applications is August 
31, 2012.

Funding Opportunity Description

    The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL or Department), Office of 
Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) announces the availability of 
approximately $1.1 to fund one cooperative agreement to establish the 
National Center on Leadership for the Employment and Advancement of 
People with Disabilities (LEAD). The Center will seek to improve 
employment outcomes and promote the economic advancement of people with 
disabilities by focusing on five strategic goal areas.
    First, the Center will stimulate and bring to scale innovative 
practices and solutions-oriented models focused on both sustainable 
systems change and improved practices at the individual level. Second, 
the Center will coordinate and provide state-of-the-art technical 
assistance, training and knowledge transfer capacity to workforce-
related federal, state and local staff, grantees, subcontracting 
entities and external partners on evidence-based strategies and best 
practices. Third, the Center will translate emerging and successful 
solutions identified through demonstration projects and research 
focused on retention and return-to-work issues for individuals with 
disabilities, particularly mature workers. Fourth, the Center will 
assist ODEP in the development of policy by performing, upon request, 
rapid response to policy analysis and policy implementation questions. 
Finally, the Center will provide real-time accurate information related 
to disability employment and serve as a central locus and repository of 
information on best practices and successful employment strategies to 
both individual job seekers and the systems that assist them in 
securing, retaining, and advancing in employment.
    This cooperative agreement will be funded for one year with up to 
four option years available, pending acceptable performance and 
availability of funding.
    This solicitation provides background information, describes the 
application submission requirements, outlines the process that eligible 
entities must use to apply for funds covered by this solicitation, and 
outlines the evaluation criteria used as a basis for selecting the 
grantee.
    The full Solicitation for Grant Applications is posted on http://www.grants.gov under U.S. Department of Labor/ODEP. Applications 
submitted through http://www.grants.gov or hard copy will be accepted. 
If you need to speak to a person concerning these grants, you may 
telephone Cassandra Mitchell at 202-693-4570 (not a toll-free number). 
If you have issues regarding access to the http://www.grants.gov Web 
site, you may telephone the Contact Center Phone at 1-800-518-4726.

    Signed in Washington, DC, this 2nd day of August 2012.
Cassandra R. Mitchell,
Grant Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-19370 Filed 8-7-12; 8:45 am]
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