Opportunity Information: Apply for HHS 2020 ACF OPRE PE 1566
The Career Pathways Secondary Data Analysis Grants opportunity is a discretionary funding announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), managed through the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE). It is designed to fund rigorous, policy-relevant secondary analyses of major federal evaluation data sets on career pathways programs, with the goal of expanding what is known about how these programs operate, who they work best for, and which features appear most strongly linked to positive education and employment outcomes.
Career pathways programs, as framed in this announcement, are structured postsecondary education and training models that break progress into manageable steps. Participants can earn successively higher credentials tied to employment opportunities in growing occupations. Beyond instruction and training, these programs typically include financial, academic, and non-academic supports aimed at helping primarily low-income and non-traditional students enroll, persist, and advance. The grant program is essentially an invitation to researchers and organizations to use existing evaluation data to answer important questions that are not fully addressed by the primary studies alone.
The data sources at the center of this opportunity come from OPRE's career pathways research portfolio, especially the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) Study and the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) evaluations. Specifically, the archived materials include data from the PACE study, the HPOG National Implementation Evaluation (NIE), and the HPOG Impact Study. These data are being made available for secondary analysis through ICPSR (the Inter-university Consortium on Political and Social Research) housed at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. The announcement notes that documentation files are available first, and that the data files themselves were expected to be downloadable in late Summer 2019. Importantly, the archived files are restricted-use, meaning applicants should be prepared to meet data security and access requirements typically associated with sensitive microdata.
The grant's purpose is not simply to re-run existing impact estimates, but to add value by asking focused questions that deepen understanding of implementation and effectiveness. OPRE highlights several priority directions: examining research questions that align with career pathways goals and objectives; strengthening OPRE's multi-pronged evaluation approach by drilling into specific topics; and studying key program implementation characteristics, as well as mediators and moderators that might explain how and why outcomes differ across sites, subgroups, or program designs. The opportunity also emphasizes improving measurement of key constructs relevant to career pathways, including innovative approaches to basic skills education and occupational training, the role and intensity of supportive services, indicators of career progress, and measures of job quality. A recurring theme is practical usefulness: analyses should be structured to inform program design and operations, support performance improvement, and address questions that matter to decision makers at the local, state, and national levels, especially those focused on TANF recipients and other low-income populations.
Funding is offered through a cooperative agreement, which typically implies ongoing federal involvement beyond a standard grant (for example, collaboration on study scope, deliverables, or dissemination). The opportunity number is HHS-2020-ACF-OPRE-PE-1566 and it falls under CFDA 93.595 in the Income Security and Social Services activity category. The expected number of awards is four, with an award ceiling of $75,000 per award. The announcement also makes clear that actual awards depend on available funds and continued government interest, which is a standard condition in federal discretionary opportunities.
Eligibility is broad and includes many types of organizations that can credibly conduct secondary data analysis. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments and other tribal organizations; public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities; nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status; for-profit organizations other than small businesses; and small businesses. This breadth signals that OPRE is primarily focused on analytic capability, rigor, and policy relevance rather than limiting participation to a narrow applicant class.
The timeline provided in the source indicates the opportunity was created June 17, 2019, with an original closing date of August 16, 2019, and electronic applications due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. While those dates describe the original competition window, the core takeaway is the structure and intent of the program: small, targeted awards to leverage high-value federal evaluation data sets through restricted-access ICPSR archives, producing rigorous secondary analyses that can directly inform the design and improvement of career pathways strategies for low-income populations, including those connected to TANF.Apply for HHS 2020 ACF OPRE PE 1566
- The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families - OPRE in the income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Career Pathways Secondary Data Analysis Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.595.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 17, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 16, 2019 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $75,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 4 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses.
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