Serving rural and indigenous communities in the region, nevadaworks (northern nevada's workforce board) is building a regional workforce system to place workers into good jobs across four key industry…

The Economic Development Administration awarded a $29.7 million Project Grant to Nevadaworks under the Economic Adjustment Assistance program. The grant will support Nevadaworks' Northern Nevada Equity in Employment Project from September 2022 to June 2025.

The project aims to build a regional workforce system across four key industry sectors - manufacturing, healthcare, information technology, and transportation/logistics - by leveraging partnerships with backbone organizations representing each sector. Nevadaworks and its partners will place workers into jobs through coordinated efforts between manufacturers, healthcare providers, IT companies, and transportation/logistics firms. The grant will also support workforce development activities for rural and indigenous communities in northern Nevada.

Serving rural and indigenous communities in the region, nevadaworks (northern nevada's workforce board) is building a regional workforce system to place workers into good jobs across four key industry sectors -- manufacturing, HEALTHCARE services, information technology (IT) and transportation/logistics. The northern nevada equity in employment project includes four backbone organizations: nevada industry excellence (manufacturing backbone, a manufacturing extension partnership center), nevada hospital association (HEALTHCARE), the economic development authority for western nevada (information technology), and truckee meadows community college (transportation / logistics). The partnership has together 15 committed companies, including innovators such as tesla (which opened the world's largest-volume battery factory in northern nevada in 2014) and fulcrum biofuels. The project is also backed by local unions and leverages a network of more than 1,800 manufacturing firms through its manufacturing extension partnership backbone organization.