PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
The purpose of the JOLI program is to make grant awards eligible to organizations that will test and evaluate ways of creating permanent full-time employment and business opportunities for welfare recipients and other low-income individuals through: (1) self-employment; (2) microenterprise; (3) new business ventures; (4) business expansion through the provision of technical or financial assistance to private employers to create new jobs; and, (5) non-traditional employment development initiatives.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. INCOME SECURITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES;
- Families and Child Welfare Services;
- Public Assistance;
- Specialized Family and Child Welfare Services;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Unemployed;
- Welfare Recipient;
- Low Income;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- 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;