Employment Social Enterprise (ESE) Program Year 2024-25 (PY 24-25)

Overview

The ESE PY 24-25 grant competition solicits a second round of proposals to design, develop, and implement programs that will focus on the first step to transitioning participants into the workforce by placing individuals into employment, typically in a supported employment setting, to help them earn wages while building work experience, improving job skills as well as provide supportive services for California’s most vulnerable populations. This initiative aims to design, develop, and implement programs that will promote job training opportunities and transitional employment through social enterprise programs for the hardest-to-serve individuals to provide economic self-sufficiency and life stability. The ESE also seeks innovative projects that demonstrate effectiveness in providing jobs...