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    CareerEdge Offers Grants to Help Close the Skills Gap and Build Companies’ Talent Pipeline

    Coconut Telegraph

    SRQ DAILY

    SATURDAY FEB 22, 2020 |

    On Monday, March 2nd, the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce’s CareerEdge workforce initiative will open their annual request for proposal (RFP) process soliciting plans from manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, and skilled trades employers in Manatee and Sarasota Counties. CareerEdge is seeking grant applications that show a business will use funding (upon approval) to increase skills and accelerate promotions for incumbent workers while speeding job creation. Over the past 10 years, CareerEdge has co-invested nearly $10.6 million in grants to businesses, matched by employer investments and other funders. Employers may request grants of $15,000 to $50,000 to implement training programs up to 12 months in duration, with employee wages reported for two years upon training completion.

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    A Magical Evening | SRQ Magazine's Holiday Soiree at Waterworks, December 9

    Photos from the SRQ Magazine Holiday Soiree at Waterworks, December 9

    Jan 4, 2020

    The Sexiest Show in Ballet

    The Sarasota Ballet perform, for the first time, George Balanchine’s evocative and exotic Bugaku April 27-28. This remarkable ballet was a tribute by Balanchine to the refined elegance of Japanese music and dance, and during its world premiere renowned dance critic Anna Kissel

    Apr 11, 2018

    Families First Institute Offers Free, Public Courses to Strengthen Families

    Children First, Sarasota County’s exclusive provider of Head Start and Early Head Start programs serves more than 700 of the county’s most vulnerable children and their families each year, providing high-quality education, care, nutrition and family support services. Children First&rs

    Apr 4, 2018

    Give Gratitude, Grateful Patient Program

    If you have been a patient at Sarasota Memorial, perhaps you can look back to when the care you received exceeded your expectations. Maybe it was kind words from a doctor or nurse, the patience of a technologist who took the time to explain a procedure, or a volunteer, housekeeper or food service

    Jan 12, 2018