PROVIDENCE – More than 900 workers will benefit from the $481,098 in matching grants awarded by the Governor’s Workforce Board in its second round this year of Comprehensive Worker Training Grants. A third round is planned later this year.
The latest awards went to 28 companies across the state – 20 of them in “high-wage industries” – and ranged from $2,170 to $49,900. (The maximum possible award under the program is $50,000.)
Funding for the CWT grants comes from the state’s employer-financed Job Development Fund. Only those employers who pay into the fund are eligible to apply for the grants.
Receiving grants this time were:
Bristol
• Jade Engineered Plastics, Inc., $19,140
• RGP Dental Inc., $7,043
Central Falls
•Dexter Credit Union, $5,800
Coventry
• Little Rhody Machine Repair Inc., $2,590
Cranston
• Epoxies Etc., $9,147
• Fielding Manufacturing Inc., $16,000
• Saccoccio & Associates Inc., $2,090
East Providence
• A B. Munroe Diary, $26,500
• EFD Inc., $17,462
Lincoln
• Packaging Concepts Ltd., $20,000
Narragansett
• NGC Inc., $12,300
North Kingstown
• North Star Marketing Inc., $4,093
Pawtucket
• Blackstone Academy Charter School, $21,695
Portsmouth
• New England Boatworks, $4,605
Providence
• Darrow Everett, $4,500
• Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. Ltd., $13,227
• Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, $49,900
• Robinson Green Beretta Corp., $49,093
Richmond
• Vibco Vibrators Inc., in Wyoming, $49,380
Smithfield
• Freedom National Bank, Greenville, $2,170
South Kingstown
• Carousel Industries of N.A. Inc., in Peace Dale, $29,199
Warren
• American Ecotech, $31,700
Warwick
• Chamber Education Foundation,$3,500
• Elizabeth Buffum Chase Center, $19,191
• Kent House, $5,967
• Overhead Door Company of Providence Inc., $27,695
West Greenwich
• Tim Horton’s (New England), $21,505
Woonsocket
• Donada Inc., $5,338
The 17-member Governor’s Workforce Board, formerly the R.I. Human Resource Investment Council, aims to improve the state’s skills base, anticipate the needs of growing and emerging businesses and encourage collaboration among the state’s employers, educators and economic development entities. Since September 2005, it has made more than $16 million in strategic investments. Additional information is available atwww.rihric.com.
