These grants are to test the ability of the workforce development system to create projects or industry-led consortia for the purpose of upgrading current workers, designing or adapting training curricula in skill shortage occupational areas in regionally important business and industry areas and in specialized industrial areas, and to recruit/retrain workers in those occupations.

Selected Awardees	Amount
Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc. P.O. Box 149 Pascagoula, Mississippi 39568	$1,512,598
Douglas-Cherokee Economic Authority 534 East First North Street Morristown, Tennessee 37814	548,293
Connecticut Business and Industry Association 350 Church Street Hartford, Connecticut 06103	2,282,488
Cuyahoga County Workforce 1275 Ontario Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113	1,165,223
Yakima Valley OIC 815 Fruitvale Boulevard Yakima, Washington 98902	550,000
Virginia's Area VII Workforce Investment Board 915 Main Street, Suite 302 Lynchburg, Virginia 24505	2,534,404
Central Pennsylvania Workforce Development Corporation 3 Kelly Square, Route 15 North Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837	2,765,397
Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board 435 City County Building 414 Grant Street Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219	995,914
Worksystems, Inc. 711 SW Alder #200 Portland, Oregon 97204	1,454,390
Workforce Connections, Inc. 402 North 8th Street La Crosse, Wisconsin 54602	448,900
Alliance for Business and Training P.O. Box 249 Elizabethton, Tennessee 37644	2,810,000
Tidewater Community College Chesapeake Campus - TCC 1428 Cedar Road Chesapeake, Virginia 23322	1,699,894
The Boston Private Industry Council 2 Oliver Street, 7th Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02109	1,490,456
Antelope Valley College 3041 West Avenue K Lancaster, California 93536	2,850,500
Georgia Job T.I.P.S., Inc. 1407 Kings Mountain Road Columbus, Georgia 31907	1,314,122
Community Learning Center, Inc. 4025 Rufe Snow Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76180	2,860,000
Central Iowa Employment and Training Consortium 215 Watson Way - 2nd Floor Des Moines, Iowa 50309	2,739,408
University of Southern Maine 96 Falmouth Street Portland, Maine 04104	1,885,142
JobWorks, Inc. 201 East Rudisill Boulevard Fort Wayne, Indiana 46806	514,550