Transportation Grants for Women
There aren't direct grants for women in the area of transportation; however, there are programs that are funded by grants that benefit women in many areas, such as minority business development status that qualifies women-owned businesses for set-aside contracts and special transportation programs for women on welfare that have no transportation to get to job interviews or work
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Starting a Transportation Initiative
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Women can benefit from the federal funds granted to Women's Small Business Development Centers across the United States. Personnel can help a woman create a plan or vision for a career in transportation by providing federally funded training programs to help women get started in owning business in the field of transportation pertaining to traffic analysis and many other sub-fields within transportation.
Public Transportation
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The U.S. Department of Transportation through grant funding provides transportation initiatives through community development block grant funding to local governments to find creative ways to use transportation to get women who receive welfare to new jobs by the use of paid transportation vouchers and bus tokens. This program was implemented back in 1996 through President Bill Clinton's "Welfare to Work" reforms for women.
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Business
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The Department of Transportation with the assistance of the SBA, creates procurement training and opportunities through federal grants to train women's businesses in the area of transportation to obtain special set-aside procurement contracts and sub-contracts with large vendors. A business must have 51 percent of stock owned by a woman to achieve a designation as a woman-owned business, which leads to special set-aside competitive contracts reserved for women.
Impact Studies
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Through the Department of Transportation and other governmental agencies, there is funding for women's non-profit agencies that research transportation issues that provide the government with information on transportation impact studies. Grants are made available to these non-profits to conduct research into new transportation systems, transportation auditing systems and traffic analysis. The research organization must have a federal 501c(3) non-profit status and designated as 51 percent owned by women to have access to many of these grant notifications.
Considerations
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The key to finding out which federally funded program in areas of transportation that can assist women is to contact the lead government agency that is responsible for the nations transportation issues. In this case, that agency is the USDOT office which has a local branch office in your city or state.
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