OFFICE OF NATIONAL

RESPONSE

NATIONAL EMERGENCY
GRANTS (NEG)
Performance and Reporting
Summit
Speakers

Kim Powell
Office of National Response
Employment and Training Administration
Agenda

Background
What’s New in NEG
Performance Framework
Key Terms and Concepts
Discussion Forum
National Emergency Grants

National Emergency Grants (NEGs),

are discretionary awards that are
intended to:
– Temporarily expand the service capacity
at the state and local levels to respond
to specific events
– Provide time-limited funding assistance
in response to significant economic
events
NEG Program Purpose

Minimize the negative economic and

employment impacts of dislocation from
plants closings, global competition and
natural disasters
Training and retraining dislocated
workers on new technologies and high-
growth, high demand industries to
enable them to earn industry
certifications and become reemployed
Four Types of NEGs

Regular National Emergency Grants

– BRAC
– RIGs
Disaster Grants
Trade Dual-Enrollment
Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC)
Funding

$1.5 billion annually in WIA Dislocated

Worker funding
Secretary of Labor holds 20% of
dislocated worker funds in reserve for
national emergency grants,
demonstrations and technical
assistance
NEG Awards

Funding by
Category
– Regular PY2006 NEG New Awards

– Disaster
$23,970,913

– BRAC $19,415,163
$5,995,453
$2,500,000 $249,810

$16,778,262

RIG
HCTC
Regular
BRAC

Enrollment
Disaster

Dual
 NEG Awards

PY 2006 NEG RESULTS

Type of Neg Number of New Awards Funds Awarded

BRAC 7 $16,778,262
Disaster 7 $19,415,163
Dual
Enrollment 9 $5,995,453
Regular 12 $23,480,883
HCTC 3 $2,813,713
RIG 1 $249,810
TOTALS 39 $68,733,284

Total Funds Awarded for PY 2006 $119,316,635

 Performance Results

Measures: NEG Dislocated Worker

Entered 71% 83.4%

Employment
Retention 89% 87.8%

Earnings Change -$989 $478

What’s New in NEG

Regional Innovations Grants (RIGs)

– RIGs are limited National Emergency Grant
Resources. Set aside to assist state workforce
agencies and local Workforce Investment Boards
(WIBs)
– Funding is to be used to develop a comprehensive,
integrated, strategic regional plan based on
WIRED principles with a focus on current or future
unanticipated economic events
– Awards will be limited to $250,000 for any one
regional project with a grant period of 18 months
– Applications are taken on a rolling basis
What’s New in NEG

WISPR Impact
– Quarterly access to performance
outcomes will inform management and
decision-making for NEGs
– Common measure outcome data by
project
What’s New in NEG

ETA is conducting a review of NEG

data
– Conduct a review to better understand
data collection, processing and reporting
issues
– Develop reporting and definitions
guidance
– Audience input today!
Performance Accountability
Framework

Grant Management
– NEG Quarterly Progress Report
Fiscal Accountability
– NEG Quarterly Financial Status Report
Performance Outcomes
– WIA Quarterly Report
– WIA Annual report
– WIASRD
NEG Quarterly Progress
Report

A Grant Management tool

ETA Form 9104
Project-level reporting
Submitted through NEG e-system
Financial Status Report

Provides Quarterly Financial Status

ETA Form 9099/9130
Project-level reporting
Submitted through EBSS
Common Measure
Performance Outcomes

WIA Quarterly Report & WIA Annual

Report
– ETA Form 9090
– State-level data
– Submitted through EBSS
WIASRD
– Participant-level data
 NEG Quarterly
Progress Report:
Key Terms and
Concepts
NEG Quarterly Progress Report

All NEG participants should be reported

– Those served only by a NEG
– Those served by a NEG and co-enrolled in
WIA

HCTC funded by NEG funds should be

reported in NEG e-system
NEG Quarterly Progress Report

Report format used for all four types of NEGs

One report required per NEG project
All fields are cumulative from the NEG start date
Completion of fields based on the type of NEG
– Electronic system will only ask for fields appropriate
to project type, for example, health coverage
payments only applies to Trade Act Health Insurance
NEGs
Due 45 days after the end of the quarter
NEG Quarterly Progress Report

• Reported through the NEG e-

system
• Click “Begin” next to “Quarterly
Performance Report”
Key Terms and Concepts

Sample Elements of the QPR:

– Total participants
– Receiving Intensive Services
– Enrolled in NEG-funded training
– Receiving NEG-funded supportive services
– Receiving Needs-Related Payments
– Employed in Temporary Disaster Relief Program
– Total Exits
– Total Entering Employment at Exit
– Total Expenditures at Grantee level
– Total Expenditures at Project Operator Level
(including service providers of Project Operator)
– Total Project Expenditures
Key Terms and Concepts

Receiving Intensive Services

– 20CFR 663.200 and WIA Sec. 134(d)(3)(C)
• Examples include assessments, career plans, counseling,
career planning
– Includes services wholly or partially-funded by the NEG
Enrolled in NEG-Funded Training
– 20CFR 663.300 and WIA Sec. 134(d)(4)(D)
– Includes training wholly or partially-funded by the NEG
Receiving NEG-Funded Supportive Services
– Included services wholly or partially-funded by the NEG
Key Terms and Concepts

Total Participants
– Number of eligible individuals who have
received services funded by the NEG
– Includes NEG-only and co-enrolled
participants receiving services from a
partner program
– Note, the service fields do not sum because
a participant may receive more than one
service
Key Terms and Concepts

Exit
– Total cumulative exiters
• positive and negative outcomes
– Definition is the same for NEG e-system and
the WIASRD:
• A participant has not received a WIA program
or partner-funded service for 90 consecutive
calendar days, has no gap in service, and is
not scheduled for future services
Key Terms and Concepts

Entering Employment at Exit

– The cumulative number of participants
who have ceased to receive services
funded by the NEG and who have
entered employment within the grant
period.
Discussion
Forum
Discussion Forum

Issues pertaining to definitions

Challenges in collecting participant
information
Process used to estimate participation
levels for the grant
Process and data sources used in
performance measure calculations
Other success factors used to measure
NEG performance
Resources

NEG Web site:

– http://www.doleta.gov/neg
ETA Performance:
– http://www.doleta.gov/performance/results
 Contact Information

Kim Powell, Grant Specialist

Phone: 202-693-3726
E-Mail: Stein.Kimberly@dol.gov

Mindy Feldbaum, Division Chief

Phone: 202-693-3382
E-Mail: Feldbaum.Mindy@dol.gov