PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To provide competitive grants to local governments, nonprofit organizations, and designated recipients of Federal transit funding to develop transportation services to connect welfare recipients and low-income persons to employment and support services. Job Access grants will be for capital projects, to finance operating costs of equipment, facilities and associated support costs related to providing access to jobs. The Reverse Commute grants will assist in funding the costs associated with adding reverse commute bus, train, carpool or service from urban areas, urbanized areas, and areas other than urbanized areas to suburban work places.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. TRANSPORTATION;
- Urban Mass Transit;
- Highways, Public Roads, and Bridges;
- Rail Transportation;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;
- Local;
- Public nonprofit institution/organization;
- Private non-profit institution/organization;
- Quasi-public non-profit organization;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Private non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Quasi-public non-profit institution/organization;