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