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DOL Releases List of WIRED III Recipients
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently named 13 more regions to receive grants through the third round of the Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) program. As with the previous round of awards (see the Jan. 22, 2007 issue of the Digest), the recipients will each receive $5 million over the course of three years to integrate workforce training initiatives into a regional technology-based economic development strategy. The winners include:
- Central New Jersey (five counties including the city of New Brunswick) – for the Bio-1 Regional Partnership
- Southeastern Virginia (25 cities and counties including the city of Norfolk) – for the SEVA-PORT WIRED partners
- Central Kentucky (15 counties including the city of Louisville) – for workforce development in the I-65 Corridor
- Southeastern Mississippi (18 counties including the city of Biloxi) – for Momentum Mississippi
- South Central and Southwest Wisconsin (12 counties including the city of Madison) – for the South Central/Southwest GROW Region partnership
- South Central and Western Minnesota (36 counties including the city of Montevideo) – for the Ag-Innovation Triangle
- Southeast Missouri (14 counties including Cape Girardeau) – for a cluster-based WIRED initiative administered by the Workforce Investment Board of Southeast Missouri
- South Central Kansas (10 counties including the city of Witchita) – for the South Central Kansas WIRED Initiative
- Central New Mexico (eight counties including the city of Socorro) – for the New Mexico Technology Triangle
- Southern Arizona (four counties including the city of Tucson) – for the Innovation Frontier of Arizona
- South Central Idaho (eight counties including the city of Twin Falls) – for the South Central Idaho Partnership
- Greater Portland and Salem, Ore. (seven counties) – for the North Willamette Valley Transformation WIRED Region
- Washington's Pacific Mountain region (five counties) – for the Pacific Mountain Alliance for Innovation
This $65 million round of grants is intended to act a seed funding to attract additional financial support from other public and private sources.
A map of all 39 WIRED grant regions and descriptions of their ongoing projects are available at: http://www.doleta.gov/wired/regions/