Tag: Building Futures
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...
R.I. tradeswomen look to build their numbers
Darche Hood went to college to earn a degree in finance.
But now the numbers she’s calculating are from a measuring tape stretched between wall...
Building a future in construction
R.I. Department of Labor and Training Director Scott Jensen says the decision by Gov. Gina M. Raimondo to allow the construction industry to remain...
Grants available for R.I. businesses to start IT apprenticeship programs
PROVIDENCE – A Rhode Island workforce development organization is offering funding to local businesses to help develop information technology–related apprenticeship programs.
Building Futures through its...
Hammer, nails… Narcan: Construction training aims to ease opioid crisis
As an industry, construction has been beset by the national opioid epidemic. In Rhode Island, a report by public-health officials found that about 20%...
Five Questions With: Jennifer Hawkins
Jennifer Hawkins is the executive director of ONE Neighborhood Builders, the developer of the soon-to-begin Sheridan Small Homes, a development of affordable, net-zero homes...
Q&A: Orlando A. Correa
Orlando A. Correa is a 2012 graduate of the Building Futures program of Apprenticeship Rhode Island, part of the American Apprenticeship Initiative. The program...
Groundbreaking scheduled for Sheridan Small Homes
PROVIDENCE – A groundbreaking has been scheduled on Oct. 18 for the construction of five net-zero homes in the city.
The project, called Sheridan Small...
Women’s Fund of R.I. grants nearly $50K to 5 local nonprofits
PROVIDENCE – The Women's Fund of Rhode Island awarded nearly $50,000 in grants to five organizations working on projects intended to advance gender equity...
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