Tag: Building Futures
United Way awards $1.5M in equity fund grants
PROVIDENCE – Fifteen organizations will share $1.5 million in grants from the Providence Equity Fund at the United Way of Rhode Island, the nonprofit...
Building Futures gets $3.7M in federal funding
PROVIDENCE – Building Futures, a nonprofit that works to leverage apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs as it expands pipelines to career opportunities for low-income communities...
DEM awards $218K for community engagement on climate change
PROVIDENCE – Six community groups will share $218,931 in grants for projects that will provide public engagement around Rhode Island's 2025 Climate Action Strategy,...
Class of their own: More employers partnering with local colleges
Although he had some experience working in construction, Kolby Gomes says learning the ins and outs of pipefitting was like studying a foreign language.
But...
New law: R.I. public colleges must plan for apprenticeships
A new state law requires public higher education institutions to establish ways of awarding academic credit to students who participate in registered apprenticeship programs.
“These...
APPRENTICING FOR SUCCESS: Aging workforce needs infusion
Earlier this year, first-year carpenter apprentice Luis Mercedes got to spend a few months helping install windows at the former Windmill Street Elementary School...
‘Still so many barriers’ for women in the trades
Given the difficult life circumstances Elizabeth “Ellie” Navarro has had to deal with, it’s a wonder she’s so upbeat.
Growing up, the 19-year-old Pawtucket native...
Brown commits to all union labor, Building Futures for big projects
PROVIDENCE – Brown University announced an agreement Monday with both the Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades Council and Building Futures that commits the...
Builders: Have work, will train
Although the COVID-19 pandemic kept many Rhode Islanders close to home for much of 2020, Pariseault Builders Inc. didn’t slow down.
With construction deemed an...
We Make RI manufacturing training fair to help unemployed reenter workforce
CRANSTON – Manufacturing training organization We Make RI will host an in-person training fair on Wednesday.
Workforce development organizations that will be on hand include...
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