June 11 - 15, 2012

• $2,038,364 to the Richmond Community College, the Board of Trustees of Richmond Community College, and the Richmond County Government, Hamlet, North Carolina, to renovate and expand the Forte building on the Richmond Community College campus in Hamlet into a state-of-the-art, high-tech training hub for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) related programs. Workers with these skills are needed in the region's manufacturing industries and the emerging energy production and transmission cluster. This investment is part of a $3,108,429 project that the grantees estimate will create 435 jobs and generate $38 million in private investment.
   

June 11-15, 2012

• $2.416 million to the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, to support the construction of the Culinary Institute of the Pacific at Diamond Head, on the campus of the Kapiolani Community College in Honolulu. The Institute prepares participants to manage and operate small to medium-sized restaurants, which greatly supports the state's tourism industry, and increases visitor return rates due to increased satisfaction. This investment is part of a $9.662 million project that the grantee estimates will create 500 jobs and generate $7 million in private investment.
• 551,257 to Lee County, Fort Myers, Florida, to fund preliminary design, modeling, and permitting for infrastructure that is necessary for construction of two research and incubator facilities in Lee County. The Renewable Energy and Research Diamond, which has been targeted for economic diversification and job creation, is anchored by Florida Gulf Coast University and Southwest Florida International Airport and includes private sector industrial, commercial, and research-oriented development. This investment is part of a $1,102,514 project that the grantee estimates will create 1,500 jobs and generate $10.88 million in private investment.
• $250,000 to the Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization, Reno, Nevada, to support the development of an information network that provides a commercialization resource for clean energy technology business organizations in Nevada. This project supports economic diversification through the development of the clean energy and related clusters. This investment is part of a $500,000 project.