Veterans Employment Pay for Success Program

 

This program furthers the Department?s mission by establishing a program to provide grants to eligible recipients to assist veterans in highly rural areas through innovative transportation services to travel to Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, and to otherwise assist in providing transportation services in connection with the provision of VA medical care to these veterans.

Deleted 03/27/2024 (Archived.) 64.052 Department of Veterans Affairs B - Project Grants Not applicable. Veterans Entrepreneurship Act of 2015, Public Law 114-38, 38 U.S.C. 3119 Applicants must be prepared to provide documentation of eligibility criteria and other support documentation described in the notice of funds availability (NOFA). This competition is open to public or nonprofit agencies, including institutions of higher learning as defined in 38 U.S.C. SS 3119. Eligible nonprofit organizations include those defined in 2 C.F.R 200.70. Eligible applicants must serve low-income communities or address a specific issue area (e.g., employment or mental health challenges) in geographical areas that have the highest need in that issue area. This competition is open to public or nonprofit agencies, including institutions of higher learning as defined in 38 U.S.C. SS 3119. Eligible nonprofit organizations include those defined in 2 C.F.R 200.70. Eligible applicants must serve low-income communities or address a specific issue area (e.g., employment or mental health challenges) in geographical areas that have the highest need in that issue area. Not applicable. Preapplication coordination is not applicable. 2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards applies to this program. The VA will publish, in the Federal Register, a NOFA, soliciting applications for the grant program and information on applications for requesting eligibility to receive grant funds. VA will establish scoring criteria and selection categories for grant applications. These criteria are weighted according to their probability of influencing an applicant's development of a successful program. Applications will only be accepted when received within the designated application submission timeframe and meeting the requirements described in a NOFA published in the Federal Register. VA will specify in the NOFA, the process used to award the grant, where VA would score applications using a criteria and rank applications that receive at least the minimum amount of total points and points per category set forth in the NOFA. VA would then award grants for the highest ranked application for which funding is available. Contact the headquarters or regional location, as appropriate for application deadlines From 60 to 90 days. VA will publish, in the Federal Register, a NOFA, that solicits applications for the grant program and information on application deadlines and requirements for submission. Not applicable. Not applicable. Scoring criteria and selection categories for the award of the grant will be provided in the NOFA. The criteria are weighted according to their probability of influencing an applicant's development of a successful Pay for Success program. The grant program provides funding to public or nonprofit agencies, including institutions of higher learning, to establish and support a Veterans Employment Pay for Success Project with a goal of improving specified employment outcomes for Veterans with a primary service connected disability rating of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Not applicable. Grants under this program are subject to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance, now consolidated in 2 C.F.R Parts 200 and VA's implementing regulation at Part 802 and CNCS's implementing regulation at Part 2205). Records must be retained at least 3 years after the end of the grant period. Statutory formula is not applicable to this assistance listing.

Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. Length-of-time limitations are established in the NOFA. If the VA determines that the Grant Recipient has presented a High-Quality PFS Project, the Grant Recipient will receive payments for administrative costs and outcomes payments electronically through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Payment Management System. Payment methods must minimize the time elapsing between the transfer of funds from the United States Treasury and the disbursement by the Grant Recipient. Method of awarding/releasing assistance: Lump. VA Center for Innovation VA Central Office Attn: Patrick Littlefield (320) 810 Vermont Avenue NW Washington, DC 20420 (202) 256-7176 Michelle Staton
VA Center for Innovation
VA Central Office
Attn: Patrick Littlefield (320)
810 Vermont Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20420 US
michelle.staton@va.gov
Phone: 202-256-7176 36-0151-0-4-147 (Project Grants) FY 16 est $1,500,000.00; FY 17 est $1,500,000.00; FY 15 The grant amount will be specified in the NOFA. Not applicable. Not applicable.