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(Mauren Kennedy) Philander Smith College in Little Rock will receive a $2.5 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to develop the HBCU Center of Excellence in Digital Education and Rural Workforce Development. The grant, awarded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, will be matched by $638,420 in local dollars, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The project is expected to create 65 jobs and generate $400,000 in private investment, it said. Philander Smith President Roderick Smothers told Arkansas Business late Tuesday that this grant will give the college the capacity to do three things: help the community recover from COVID-19 by providing people with the upgraded skills they need to work or go back to work, reach rural communities, and prepare its students for the future. ....
SRC receives $1.5 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant Submitted News WASHINGTON –U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Spoon River College, Canton, to purchase training equipment and renovate the college’s Vocational & Technical Education Center (VOTEC). This EDA grant is expected to create 275 jobs, retain 125 jobs, and generate $500,000 in private investment. “President Biden is laser-focused on fortifying American’s workforce so that our nation not only recovers from this pandemic but builds back stronger,” said Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo. “This EDA investment at Spoon River College will help close gaps in the talent pipeline for the region’s important manufacturing and logistics clusters and ensure future economic resilience.” ....
A team of Purdue University Northwest (PNW) College of Technology researchers has been awarded a total of more than $1 million in federal and private funding to develop and test advanced agriculture technology (agTech) solutions. The project will be based in a greenhouse under development at the Digital Crossroad Data Center in Hammond, IN. PNW will receive $726,389 through the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Scaling Pandemic Resilience Through Innovation and Technology (SPRINT) Challenge. The university is one of 44 awardees of these grants from a pool of 238 applicants nationwide. The funds were awarded to Project TRAVERSE: agTech Robotics, Automation and Virtually Employed Resiliently Scaling Enterprises. Project TRAVERSE uses advanced manufacturing technology, robotics and cyber-physical systems to develop and pilot test agTech solutions, like remote planting and harvesting of an array of crops. The project is expected to provide alternative solution ....
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April 23, 2021 GRMC gets $2.5M from Feds to fix roof, HVAC Written by Geoffrey Plant on April 23, 2021 Gila Regional Medical Center has received a $2.5 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant through the U.S. Economic Development Administration for roof renovations and improvements to its heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced Thursday. “President Biden is committed to supporting New Mexico communities as they build back better from the coronavirus pandemic,” Raimondo said in a press release. “These EDA investments will provide infrastructure improvements needed to meet regional health care demands and critical gap financing for businesses to create stronger regional economies.” ....