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MCNC, a technology nonprofit that builds, owns and operates the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), has served research, education, non-profit health care and other community institutions with Internet connectivity in the state for more than 30 years. NCREN is the fundamental broadband infrastructure for more than 500 of these institutions including all K-20 education in North Carolina. As one of the nation`s premier middle-mile networks, MCNC leverages high-speed fiber on NCREN to customize Internet services and related applications for each customer while supporting private service providers in bringing cost-efficient connectivity to rural and underserved communities in North Carolina.
BRITE is a federally funded business incubator aimed at growing energy technologies and allied products such as: advanced materials, electronics, and efficiency, control systems. BRITE`s physical location opened in downtown Warren in Court House Square in January 2015 and currently has 13 physical tenants and 80 virtual companies. BRITE has recently secured funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission to develop the BRITE Energy Labs, a project that will make BRITE a regional resource lab for companies to research, test, and certify products. This lab will potentially spur job and company creation in the Warren and Mahoning Valley region.
Skills for Rhode Island`s Future is a public-private partnership working to match businesses that have current, unmet hiring needs with qualified, unemployed or underemployed job seekers in the state of Rhode Island. Skills for Rhode Island’s Future will serve as a business intermediary dedicated to returning the unemployed and underemployed to work by focusing on the hiring needs of local employers. This unique demand-driven approach allows Skills for Rhode Island’s Future to serve both the business and job seeker communities creating economic opportunity and regional progress. Skills for Rhode Island’s Future is modeled after Skills for Chicagoland’s Future, a successful demand-driven intermediary based in Chicago. Skills for Chicagoland’s Future has placed over 2,700 job seekers back to work with more than 50 employer partners since its inception in 2012. Skills for Rhode Island’s Future is being launched with support from the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training and in partnership with the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce.
Global Communities (formerly CHF International) is an international non-profit organization that works closely with communities worldwide to bring about sustainable changes that improve the lives and livelihoods of the vulnerable. Development is not something we do for people; it is something we do with them. We believe that the people who understand their needs best are the people of the community itself. We make a difference by engaging with communities, governments, the private sector and NGOs as partners for good – bringing together complementary strengths and shared responsibilities to work toward common goals.
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples is a Ottawa, ON-based company in the Non-profit sector.