FW: WIOA Workforce Development Funding Opportunities Q/A Session 1 Tue, Apr 8, 2025 0:00 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Yeah, I don't have anybody in the waiting room right now. Okay, great. All right. So, I don't want you to see the screen. It might be difficult for me to share my screen and also see the questions that pop up. So, okay, we'll just get started. I can come sit next to you as they come in. So thank you all for being here today. We are happy to announce two new funding opportunities via the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act discretionary grants. For those of you who are have not corresponded with. I am Dr. Degenhardt, Dr. Sinda, you may call me. It's a pleasure to chat with you today. So our two new funding opportunities are the Investing in Workforce Development Innovation for the Future of the Commonwealth Award, as well as Facilitating Career Pivots into High Demand Occupations. On the screen here, you can see the primary goals for both of these awards, as well our website link at the bottom. For those of you who have emailed in inquiries, we have posted an FAQ page this morning to address the inquiries that you've emailed in. We would like to open this Q&A session now to new questions that have not been asked yet. So if you could please unmute yourself or raise your hand. We'd love this opportunity to answer your questions regarding these funding opportunities. 2:01 - Unidentified Speaker I don't see any. Okay, Jacqueline Morton has her hand raised. 2:14 - 1Jacqueline Morton | Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Yes, hello, and I'm sorry, I have not checked the inquiry website yet, so my question might have already been answered. 2:24 - 1Jacqueline Morton So I work for ISP Chesapeake. We are an electrical apprenticeship program with a workforce development department, but we work with other local organizations such as Hampton Roads Workforce Council, the Central Region Workforce Council, etc., local community colleges, So, we are looking to apply for the grants, but if we are working with another partner organization that were to also receive grant funding, let's say, to put a student in our program, would that be a conflict? 3:02 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Sorry, I wanted to get some feedback. Can you hear me okay? I can hear you. Okay, great. No, that would not be a conflict. Okay, thank you. Yeah, thank you. 3:23 - Unidentified Speaker Let's see, are there any other hands raised? 3:29 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Sally Dunn? 3:31 - Unidentified Speaker If you could unmute yourself, Sally. You're muted. 3:42 - 1Dunn, Sally Sorry, I think I was muted from your side. My question is, if the agency you represent as the applicant is both a non-profit and an employer who might employ up-skilled people, would that non-profit be an eligible applicant? Yes. Thank you. 4:18 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Jennifer Hodges. Good afternoon. 4:22 - 1Jennifer Hodges I am working with a local training provider out of the Roanoke Valley And we were looking at applying for this grant in order to provide health care training to individuals. Is that, could we possibly charge wages back to this grant for reimbursement when training a participant? 5:02 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Do you mind repeating your question? 5:06 - Unidentified Speaker Yes. 5:07 - Jennifer Hodges I'm working with a local training provider in the Roanoke Valley, and we are looking to train participants in healthcare occupations. When it comes to getting reimbursed, is teacher salaries one of the things that can be reimbursed if they're already on staff? 5:32 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) If they're already on staff. Yes, if it is beyond what they're currently doing. In other words, they cannot divert salaries from their preferred source of funding. If the teacher is already employed and receiving payment for conducting those activities, they cannot supplant that source of funding. It would depend on how the teachers are being paid currently and would they have to hire them specifically for this purpose? 6:09 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) | Jennifer Hodges The teachers are already on staff. 6:12 - Jennifer Hodges We were just looking to provide training to more participants that would possibly not have the funding available because, you know, it's that time of year where local workforce boards are starting to run out of WIOA funding. So I wasn't sure if we would bill back as tuition or salaries for the instructors. 6:43 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Yes, the classroom training is tuition in this situation. 6:49 - Unidentified Speaker Okay, thank you. 6:51 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Okay, Jenny Bolte. 6:53 - 1Jenny Bolte | Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Hi, yes, thank you. 6:56 - 1Jenny Bolte I'm questioning the WIOA co-enrollment and wondered if you could speak to how the enrollments in this program would affect our program operators' performance. 7:14 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) That's not enough information for us to respond to. Is there a specific situation or scenario it's too general for us to respond to that. 7:32 - Jenny Bolte Okay, so our program operator who operates our WIOA programs, Adult, Youth, and Dislocated Worker, this particular grant is requiring a co-enrollment with WIOA. So my question is, will the performance in this grant affect the WIOA Title I Adult youth dislocated worker performance? It's difficult to respond to that question. 8:01 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) That's a determination that we have to make. Okay, we need to deliberate on this response and we will get back to you on the Q&A page to be posted onto the website. Hey, Jenny, can you please And put that in writing in the chat. Thank you. Thank you, Jenny. Do we have any other questions? We do have a chat question. OK, we have a chat question. Would you like to read out loud, Constance? Sure. From Sarah Hinstorff. I'm sorry if I pronounced that incorrectly. Sarah's Question was, are for-profit training providers registered career schools eligible to apply as educational institutions? They're eligible to apply as training providers. If they're certified as educational institutions, that doesn't... So, yes. Yes. Yes. And then we have a few more hands up. Okay, Marty Baldwin? Yeah, good afternoon. 9:19 - 1Marty Baldwin Could you tell us about the monthly reporting requirements for this grant, especially on the performance and the financials side? Yes. 9:30 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) There will be a, awarded applicants will be given a reporting template that will include key data metrics depending on the details of their project. These key data metrics you can find in section 3A around page 12 of either document. At the top of the monthly reporting template will be essentially a summary listing the primary goal of the grant recipient, confirmation of their reimbursement submissions, key successes, key challenges, and technical assistance needed. And then underneath that, we'll have the metrics such as their number and percentage of participants to complete training, number and percentage of participant job placements and high demand occupations, average starting hourly wage rate, cost per participant job retention and participant dropout rate. We are allowing applicants to suggest key performance indicators that they believe might be more relevant to, that you believe might be more relevant to your program needs. These will not replace but will be in addition to the primary key performance indicators mentioned on the application and you will need to provide justification as well as a plan for how you will collect this data throughout project performance. Does that answer your question, Marty? Yeah, could you speak to the final The financial reporting will include where you are as far as your reimbursement schedule, as far as the financial aspect of your project goals. We'll do this monthly reporting and then at the end of six months, after about six or seven months of monthly reporting, there will be a deliberation process to ensure that all of the project goals are on track, including the financial aspect. So are you hitting your spending goals in addition to your program goals for your project? In addition to that, monitoring will take place relative to the percentage of match that is reported and we're anticipating that that will be something that is viewed throughout the course of the grant and that if the match is not keeping pace there'll be a communication and a conversation with the awardee in this office. You will receive feedback pending a monthly report if an necessary. This is Sarah. 12:33 - Unidentified Speaker I have a question in regards to that. 12:37 - 3Sarah Morton So this is a reimbursable grant. However, can a area request in advance to start and launch the grant? As long as you have reporting or you have to, it has to be 100% reimbursable. 12:55 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) it has to be 100% reimbursable. Okay, Leah Gibson. Thank you. 13:02 - 1Leah Gibson We had submitted a question earlier ahead of the call, and it is answered, but I don't think that it answers the question we asked. For the Workforce Development Innovation the future of the commonwealth grant there are four buckets of services that can be provided however on the pdf document where it talks about metrics there's only three buckets of metrics so for the fourth bucket of increasing job placements and high demand occupations what are the metrics expected for that type of grant proposal yeah I can see where question. 13:50 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Um, I don't know why this confusion is coming from media. It's because the fourth bucket, the increasing job placement in high demand occupations is a sub bullet underneath the other three, so it's embedded in there. The key metrics are the number of job placements and the percent of participants in job that. 14:15 - 1Leah Gibson The fourth bullet. I mean, at this in between the top of page bottom of page 12 and top of page 13. 14:26 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Is that. The it's not that there should be a fourth bullet. It's just that this metric is embedded as a part of number of registered apprenticeship enrollments. And digital skills development. 14:41 - 1Leah Gibson | Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) So it's if you that. The number of participant job placements in high demand occupations is a sub bullet underneath the registered apprenticeship enrollments and underneath the digital skills development. Um. 14:55 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Because they're related, so we just organized it in that way, but I can see where the confusion comes from 15:04 - 1Leah Gibson So there's just one. 15:05 - Unidentified Speaker There's just one metric. 15:07 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Yes it's the number 8% of participant job placements and high Sally? Sally? 15:16 - 1Dunn, Sally Regarding the match, does that also need to be non-supplanting? For instance, if one got a $75,000 grant, would one need to be able to demonstrate that the project budget had been increased by real dollars of $75,000? $35,000. The match is 50% of the proposed. 15:48 - 1Dunn, Sally | Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) 37.5 apologies. 15:50 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) So the match is meant to be 50% of the proposed project funds. Does that answer your question? 16:04 - 1Dunn, Sally No, does that need to be new dollars submitted either budgeted for or contributed to the program because of this grant. I'm not quite sure what you mean. 16:21 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) So the the match is intended to be 50 percent of the total requested grant amount of the requested grant amount. 16:32 - 1Dunn, Sally I do understand what I mean is if you are successful do you need to demonstrate that that $37,500 or however many dollars is new money or can it be in-kind from the existing budget? 16:54 - Unidentified Speaker New money from what? 16:57 - 1Dunn, Sally Either the agency's budgeting increase or contributed funds to a non-profit restricted to this to the work of this grant? 17:09 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) The source of match funds is for the applicant to determine. Yeah, okay. Thank you. 17:16 - 1Dunn, Sally | Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) That's all I needed to know. Thanks. 17:20 - Unidentified Speaker Okay. 17:20 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Okay, great. Thank you. Any other questions? Some in the chat. We have some in the chat. Let me scroll because they've been flying Somebody want to ask an audible question? 17:36 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) | Rachel Helton Okay, there we go. 17:39 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Okay. I see another hand up. 17:43 - Unidentified Speaker Okay, Sarah Hinstorff? 17:45 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Hi everyone, thank you. 17:48 - 1Sarah Hinstorff We are a technical training provider, which means we pretty much fit both in terms of the cultivated digital skills for job speakers and also placements into high-demand occupations. 18:06 - 1Sarah Hinstorff | Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Is there any reason we shouldn't pursue both opportunities? You can. All right, thank you. 18:13 - Unidentified Speaker Okay, are we ready for some chat questions? Yes. 18:18 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Okay, from Alli, we have, if our organization doesn't typically co-enroll participants in at least one of the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Title I programs required for the grant, could we partner with someone who does in order to meet this requirement for our proposed project? 18:42 - Unidentified Speaker Yes. Yes. 18:43 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Do be sure to have a letter of commitment from all partners mentioned in your applications. Okay, next question from Ashanti. The grant says subawards cannot support the hiring of new personnel. Applicants may propose funding for salary and or wage support of existing positions who will be directly responsible for conducting service delivery programmatic objectives and documented through time and effort reporting. Question, what or who qualifies as a subaward? That's a pretty So this is a subaward because we are issuing awards from a direct award that the Commonwealth has received from the U.S. Department of Labor. Therefore, all awards that we issue from those funding sources become subawards. That's what subawards means in that context. So the awards that we're issuing through this funding opportunity are considered subawards for our organization, our agency. That's what subawards means in that context. Thank you. Okay, and the link to the Q&A or the FAQs is in the chat for those of you who are looking for the written responses. Okay, next question is from Elizabeth. Will these grant opportunities require individual participant data entry into the VAWC, including all data entry requirements for electronic records in the VAWC? If you are serving individuals with this grant, then they should be entered into the VAWC, yes? Yes. The VAWC, for those of you who are not familiar, is the Virginia workforce connection, which is our official system of record and through which we report to the United States Department of Labor on all activities. Elizabeth, was that a follow-up to your question? 21:04 - 1Elizabeth Carico | Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Yes. So, um. Oh, that's Beth. Hey, Beth. 21:08 - 1Elizabeth Carico Will there be training for entities that are not familiar with the VAWC who are awarded grants? 21:17 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Yes, any awardees who are not familiar with or comfortable with BAWC operations, we will provide training for them after the award. And electronic access if they don't already have it. Jenny, was your question specific to that, to Beth's question? 21:37 - 1Jenny Bolte No, I just wondered if you all could put in writing somewhere the response you gave to Leah's question regarding the apprenticeship metrics. I just didn't quite understand the response and it had to do with bullets and sub bullets and in the confusion. 21:57 - 1Jenny Bolte | Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) So yeah, if y'all could just put that somewhere so we could see it, that would be really helpful. 22:05 - Jenny Bolte Thanks. Yeah, and this is Brian Davis. 22:08 - Davis, Brian I'm going to echo that too because I had the same question in writing, and I am still, I'm sorry, not clear on the distinctions and answers. And I'd rather not have to wait another week or whenever you're posting the next fact. 22:27 - Unidentified Speaker So thanks. 22:28 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) To reiterate the response and also to clarify, we will post the response to this question on the FAQ page. And just to be clear, the metrics for the high demand occupations is simply the number and percent of job placements in high demand occupations. It is a sub-bullet for registered apprenticeship enrollment and for the digital skills development, for the investing in workforce development innovation for the future of the Commonwealth funding opportunity, because you should report that specific metric in regards to registered apprenticeship and digital skills development. 23:13 - Davis, Brian So so when you say sub bullet it's it's not a standalone category it is part of the apprenticeship category? 23:21 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Yes yes so we want to know your related to your apprenticeship efforts the number and percent of participant job placements in high demand occupations and if you are focusing on digital skills development we want to know the number and percent of participant job placements in high demand occupations related to your digital skills development, which is why it was placed as a sub-bullet for those categories. But I'll be sure to, we'll write that up and include it in the FAQ page just to have it in writing for you. 23:55 - Jenny Bolte Thank you, that would be really helpful because I'm still grappling with trying to understand because when one goes into a he or she is hired by a particular company. So I'm trying to understand, are we talking about putting someone in a not so great demand occupation? I'm just still really unsure what you mean because they're hired. To be an apprentice, they have to be hired. 24:25 - Unidentified Speaker Yes. 24:25 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Apprenticeship enrollments do count as a job with in this case. We'll work on some clarifying language around that, and if there are additional follow-ups after you've reviewed that, then please feel free to reach out to us in writing again. Moving on, since we have lots of other questions, Elizabeth asks, are there any specific key data metrics required to submit for a non-profit hospital system that provide nursing-specific program education training. Thank you. Would you mind repeating that key data metrics? Are there any specific key data metrics required to submit for a non-profit hospital system that provide nursing specific program education and training? It's already in the application. Yes, those details are in the application. All right, next question is Lillie Rosen. Will Q&A from today also be posted? I believe we're planning to post the recording and any follow-up questions. We will post this recording and we'll post any follow-up questions. We'll clarify the FAQ page based off of the demands requested from this meeting, but we will post the recording of this meeting. Thank you. Next question from Jennifer Hodges. Will training providers be able to train participants outside of the local Workforce Development Board area? For instance, we have schools in Roanoke and Shenandoah Valleys. If we have a partnership with the Shenandoah Valley Workforce Board, would we be able to train participants in Roanoke? They determine their partnerships. Okay, so you the applicants must determine your partnerships and what your project will look like or your proposal. 26:26 - Unidentified Speaker Okay, next question. 26:28 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Catherine Stevens, can match be in-kind or must it be cash? It's up to the applicant to decide what is allowable to Okay and then Jenny requested, Jenny Bolte requested to make sure that that Marty is added to the email chain. She should have been copied on that originally. Okay. All right, Dr. Dr. Jai Girard, hopefully I didn't mess that up too much. Dr. Girard, just to make sure I understand fully, this is a matching grant, therefore if we applied for $25,000 we as an organization would also need to put in $25,000? It is a 50% match. So, the correct answer is for a $25,000 request, you would put in a $12,500 match. Next question, Grace Reynolds. Can you give a sense of the scale of outcomes you were expecting to see? For example, what would a competitive cost per placement be? The options are so varied that there is no single correct answer. So please submit what you feel is appropriate. And do your best to have data or some sort of justification your applications will all be quite varied, so it's up to you. Okay, great, and Brian will look for your missing questions. He's submitted two questions that he doesn't see on the list. Okay, JoAdel, can in-kind contributions from contractors or partners be counted as matched dollars? Potentially, As we mentioned earlier, it is up to the applicant to determine what is allowable based off of their source of funding. Please remember that WIOA Title I dollars cannot be used as match. Yes. Okay, next question from Sarah Hinstorff. For WIOA co-enrollment, do training providers need to be on the Virginia ETPL? Yes. Yes. 29:07 - Unidentified Speaker For the Title I. 29:11 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) For the Title I. For WIOA co-enrollments, yes. Okay. Grace Reynolds. If participants have to be enrolled in WIOA Title I framing to be served by this grant. If your organization doesn't currently serve that population, does that mean you need to have a referral relationship with a current WIOA service provider in order to reach eligible participants for this grant? 29:52 - Unidentified Speaker Yes. 29:52 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) All right, Leah. She is still concerned and would like the written clarification regarding the sublets. Okay, yeah, that's fine. We'll update the FAQ page to include that. Okay, and an additional question from Meghan. Hello, can these funds be used to purchase consumables for the apprentices, such as books and online course tools, boots, etc.? Supplies that will assist in the training provision or supporting services in the training provision are allowed. Okay, I wonder, food is not an allowable cost correct so funds cannot be used to purchase property equipment to construct buildings can't be used for food or entertainment okay that is I believe let me make sure about which chance uh elizabeth or beth raised her hand again yes yes so will there be a minimum expenditure requirement on training on funds spent on training or training related expenditures? 31:04 - 1Elizabeth Carico No. Okay, thank you. 31:07 - 1Elizabeth Carico | Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Yeah, of course. 31:08 - 1Elizabeth Carico Grace Reynolds? Yeah, hi, thanks. 31:11 - 1Grace Reynolds I wonder, can you give us a sense of what you're looking for in terms of demonstrating our connection or really with local workforce boards? What do we need to show? Letters, etc. 31:30 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Well, you need a letter of commitment from your local workforce development board. Ideally in your letter of commitment, it would be ideal for it to be cohesive with your project narrative. But that's essentially the extent of it. Thank you. Thank you. 31:55 - Davis, Brian | Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Just a clarification on that as a workforce board. 32:01 - Davis, Brian Is it more you're just looking for a letter of support that may or may not reflect a true partnership We are looking for letters of commitment that do reflect a true collaborative partnership. 32:26 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Okay, thank you for that clarification because I think it's an important distinction. Yeah, yes, we think so too. Thank you, Ryan. Okay, I have a couple more questions popping in. All right, from Dan Castarella, it seems an employer who wants to upskill employees into a higher skilled position within the company, the employer would partner with an ATPL approved training provider, correct? Are they asking if they can partner? Would you mind reading Grace's reading? Would the employer be the applicant and will be proposing to upskill their employees into a higher skill position? Be the applicant of the grant or the grant award to upskill their employees? Oh, Dan was asking if that is an approved model to have the employer upskill their employees and partner with the training provider on the ATPL. An application? That's not clear. There are no pre-ordained approved models. Please feel free to submit. And if you have questions you may want to discuss with your local workforce development board. Okay, next question is from Jacqueline Morton. Says, will we need a letter of commitment from report across our footprint in the Commonwealth? Oh, I'm so sorry. I realized I forgot to start recording. So, there are several people that are using other read AI and other things like that. Okay, great. We'll have a transcript. The question is, will we need a letter of commitment from every board across our footprint in the Commonwealth? They should have a letter of commitment. The entities that they are partnering with on this effort. I'll just write this in English. Okay. All right. Next question from Leah Gibson is could these funds be used to hire a 1099 consultant to provide the services proposed? There's no prohibition to it. They have to determine how best to do the services they propose. All right. Our AI ran out of time. Okay. Well, good thing I started the recording. Okay, that appears to be the chat. If anyone, if I missed anything in the chat, please raise your hand and unmute yourself and let us know. We'll be sure, I'm so sorry everyone, I forgot to start the recording, but we'll make sure to include the questions asked in the chat and the other questions chatted down today that were asked onto the FAQ page on the website. Are there any remaining questions? 36:22 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) I'm not seeing any in the chat. Okay, we will keep this open for a bit in case anybody has any remaining questions. Oh, here's another one. Lillie Rosen asks, let me ask her and then I'll go back. Would it be possible to point to where current WIOA Title I recipients are published or listed. There are 14 local workforce boards that receive WIOA Title I funding throughout the state and those are available on our website. Any clarification as to what WIOA Title also issued some awards from state reserve funds. So I'm not clear as to what type of recipients this is referencing and what would be the purpose for this information would help us to determine how best to respond. 37:52 - Lillie Rosen This is a follow-up question to the answer given to Grace's question that if you're an organization that doesn't currently serve this population, and they're required to be kind of existing participants in WIOA Title I programming. So the answer was, yes, you would need to partner and receive referrals from people who are already enrolled in services under WIOA Title I. So if we're an organization that doesn't serve that group right now, I was wondering, like, who would these referral partnerships be with that we would be seeking out as an organization that serves people with high barriers to entry into the labor market. 38:36 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Can we provide access to the website that they can see? Yes, we'll make sure that that's listed in the FAQs as well. Yes. So you can determine which local workforce development board and American Job Centers are within your area. And then determine what an appropriate contact for partnership is. The individual, the individuals that our Title I awards serve, there is no public list available of the individuals that this PII. Okay, gotcha. Brian, thanks Brian. Thank you, Brian. Okay, next question is could the funds be used to provide scholarships for veterans to pursue careers in nursing programs? This would all allow a partnership with their local veterans agency? 39:29 - Unidentified Speaker Grace, any reason not to? 39:32 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) There's nothing that prohibits. It would depend on how the scholarships are provided, the mechanism of the process, which should be described in detail in the application. 39:50 - Unidentified Speaker Okay. 39:51 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Any additional questions? 39:53 - Unidentified Speaker There's one. Okay. 39:55 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) From Kelly and Andrew. Kelly? We are considering a virtual reality software and accompanying headsets. This will enhance the service delivery by enabling more students to be enrolled with a current instructor and provide simulation scenarios for more hands-on experience. I did see that funds cannot be used to purchase equipment, but would we be able to consider this software as supplies? The headsets would not exceed $5,000. With the headset, with the total amount of the purchase of the software and all the headsets exceed $5,000? Because it is the cumulative amount of the purchase of the hardware where Pandia Company has said that deterrence, if it makes the equipment... Andrew says yes. Yes. It would exceed. Then it would be considered equipment for our purposes and will not be a non-available expense. Thank you. We'll give everyone a few more minutes to see if they have any more thoughts or questions. Oh, there's a question. What if they rent the headset from Brian Davis? Rent it from Brian Davis, then they're determined. I think he meant generally. A little humor related. In the afternoon. Clearly, that's not a purchase that would depend on the rattle conditions that should be described in detail in the application. Thank you, Brian. Okay, question from Tara Napier. Can a partner or employer provide the match for the grant? It is, as we mentioned earlier, it is up to the applicants to determine what is allowable uses of their funding sources. Our main condition is that you cannot use IOLA funds as match. Title I funds are not an allowable match. Thank you, Dr. 42:43 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Oh, I see your hand, Jenny Bolte. 42:46 - 1Jenny Bolte Yes, I'm just wondering later on in the application, it referred to the match as non-federal. However, can other federal funds outside of WIOA be used as match? 42:59 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) It is up to you to determine if that's allowable, depending on the source of your federal funds. Hey, JoAdel, can funds be used for digital career support solutions like skill alignment and service recommendation and employment opportunities? I don't see why not. That's one of the goals. But how do you define the solution? It depends on how it's the application, right? In this context, is a solution a technology solution? Is it what type of solutions are you referring to? Yes, we'd like some clarification on the question, if possible. If you, because if you are looking to purchase technology, software as a solution that we can get into the equipment category. 44:20 - Unidentified Speaker Okay. 44:23 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Any additional questions? 44:26 - Unidentified Speaker Checking in. Digital wallet. 44:31 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Joannell added digital wallet to that last question about career support solutions. We will have to check on that. Thank you for the clarification. Yeah, we need to get back to that. Okay, any additional questions? The chat is still open. 45:17 - Unidentified Speaker We will leave this open. 45:21 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) We'll leave the line open until three o'clock just in case we have anyone who pops in late or has any follow-on questions. Thank you so much for your participation today and we look forward to reviewing your proposals. Have a great day everyone. Thank you for your questions. We'll update the FAQ page and share this recording. We have another one from Andrew Kelly. Okay. I read that non-profit entities must demonstrate and discuss partner with one or more Local Workforce Boards for a successful application. Could you provide further guidance on this? If you are an applicant, if you are not representing a Local Workforce Development Board, we would like for you to submit a letter of commitment showing partnership with a Local Workforce Development Board of your choosing. 46:54 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Okay, we have a question. Can you repost the link to the application specifications? We can repost the link to the website that will have the documents or the applications as well as a link to the current FAQ page that we will update the FAQ document. It's also the website link that is on this screen? Yes, I'll copy it and post it in the chat. Thank you. 47:59 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) We have 11 minutes left. Standing by for any questions. You Bye! 49:40 - Unidentified Speaker We still have 16 attendees. Okay. 56:17 - Unidentified Speaker All right, that concludes. 56:19 - Degenhardt, Sinda (VIRGINIA WORKS) Hold on, hold on. Do we have an additional question? We're unmuted right now. No, that was just the Firefly note taker added the comments. Okay, well, that concludes today's Q&A session. Thank you all for coming. We will be hosting another Q&A session at two o'clock on April 22nd. If you have any additional questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to the sub award Inquiries email and or come to the next Q&A session. Have a great Great day, everybody. Than you.