Accepting proposals to provide job skills training, career track training and business development training for unemployed low-income adults in the Mississippi Delta through the Self-Sufficiency Program.

-To promote essential life skills;
-To help participants from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program reach a level of self-sufficiency;
-To expand the target group’s access to higher educational purposes; and
-To implement strategies to meet long term needs for trained workers in demand occupations with career advancement opportunities.

Applicants should submit one original and four copies to:
Mississippi Department of Employment Security
Attention: Procurement
1235 Echelon Parkway
Jackson, MI 39213
(601) 321-6066

Click here to view the full application.

Accepting proposals for a program that will promote recruitment and training in vocational and technical fields. The program should utilize innovative techniques to reach parents, counselors and youth.

-To promote strategic approaches that build partnerships between businesses, training providers, community organizations and other key stakeholders;
-To promote strategies that enable low-income displaced and under-skilled adults acquire the knowledge and skills for success;
-To promote vocational and technical career paths in high schools;
-To connect employers to job creation opportunities; and
-To increase enrollment of graduating trainees attending short term certification courses in vocational and technical career paths.

Applicants should submit one original and four copies to:
Mississippi Department of Employment Security
Attention: Procurement
1235 Echelon Parkway
Jackson, MI 39213
(601) 321-6066

Click here to view the full application.

Accepting proposals for a program that promotes a career in construction among disadvantage and/or at-risk youth.

-To stimulate interest among youth in construction trades as a career;
-To improve target group’s interpersonal and employability skills;
-To increase the likelihood of successful job searches and/or college successes;
-To increase the number of participants in the target group that earn a diploma or GED; and
-To utilize innovative learning techniques as well as hands-on training.

Applicants should submit one original and four copies to:
Mississippi Department of Employment Security
Attention: Procurement
1235 Echelon Parkway
Jackson, MI 39213
(601) 321-6066

Click here to view the full application.

Accepting applications from nonprofit entities to utilize the $1.43 billion stimulus dollars through the Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance Grant Programs.

Accepting proposals to utilize the $373 million in stimulus funds to create healthier communities through sustainable, proven, population-based approaches such as broad-based policy, systems, organizational and environmental changes in communities and schools.

Application development clinics to assist eligible small cities/counties and lead collaborative applicants with their applications under the Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant solicitation.

Appointments are available to eligible applicants on a first come first serve basis. One appointment is available at the top of each hour from 8:00 am to 11:00 am and from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

Gustine
Monday, October 26
Al Goman Community Center
745 Linden Avenue
Gustine, CA 95322

Eureka
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Redwood Coast Energy Resource Center
517 5th Street
Eureka, CA 95501

Sacramento
Friday, October 30, 2009
California Energy Commission
1516 Ninth Street
First Floor, Hearing Room B
Sacramento, CA 95814

Anderson
Monday, November 2, 2009
Community Center, Room 100
Anderson City Hall
1887 Howard Street
Anderson, CA 96007

Hermosa Beach
Wednesday & Thursday November 4 - 5, 2009
Council Chambers, City Hall
1315 Valley Drive
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254

El Centro
Thursday, November 5, 2009
County of Imperial
Conference Room C&D
940 Main Street
El Centro, CA 92243

Public meeting to continue discussion of the issues impacting the strength and competitiveness of the Nation’s economy.

The meeting will be open to the public via live webcast at http://www.whitehouse.gov/live.

The public is invited to submit written statements to the Advisory Committee by any of the following methods:
-Send written statements to PERAB@do.treas.gov; or
-Send three copies of all paper statements to:
Emanuel Pleitz
Designated Federal Officer
President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board
Office of the Secretary for Domestic Finance
Room 1325A
Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20220

Recording of the statewide press conference call held on Friday, October 9, 2009 to discuss the Government Accountability Office report on the status and strategy of Florida’s stimulus projects.

A recording of the call can be heard until November 9, 2009 by calling (800) 642-1687 and entering the code: 35235443.