Funded Projects
WORKFORCE/TALENT PROJECTS
Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing Pilot
$
430,000
Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing Business Plan
$
50,000
VCU Tech Talent Plan
$
100,000
Foundation for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME)
$
613,000
Virginia Virtual Workforce
$
61,295
VSU Success Squared Engineering Apprentice Program
$
39,000
Richard Bland Aeronautics Plan
$
50,000
New Kent /Rappahannock Welding School
$
300,000
RVA Now
$
100,000
RVA Now Phase 2 Retention Program
$
500,000
Virtual Connections
$
80,600
Covid Recovery and Upskilling, Hospitality Industry
$
132,000
RVA757 1-64 Corridor Plan
$
90,000
Building a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Talent Pipeline
$
482,000
START-UP ECOSYSTEMS PROJECTS
Lighthouse University
$
1,000,000
Activation Capital
$
100,000
StartUp Virginia Idea Factory
$
50,000
VSU Minority Small Business Launch Center
$
453,000
Lighthouse Labs
$
429,000
CLUSTER SCALE-UP PROJECTS
Virginia Bio-Connects
$
1,599,700
VCU Pharmaceutical Engineering Commercialization
$
100,000
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Scale-Up
$
1,400,000
Capital Region SBDC Launch
$
30,500
Forward RVA
$
100,000
SITE/INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
MaMac Mega-Site
$
2,217,500
Virginia Gateway Region Site Readiness
$
100,000
Virginia Gateway Region Sites
$
1,634,000
Sussex County Water Study
$
96,000
Virginia’s Growth Alliance Plan
$
33,500