Building Women Exploration Fair Set for Friday, April 16, at TMCC, Edison Women interested in careers in construction and related areas are invited to attend the sixth annual Building Women Exploration Fair on Friday, April 16. This year’s event will be at the TMCC/IGT Applied Technology Center at 475 Edison Way in Reno. Building Women [...]
WACA (Western Apprenticeship Coordinators Association) is an agency that recruits adults for several trade organizations in Northern Nevada. WACA represents ten different trade organizations: carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, NV Energy utility workers, operating engineers, painting, drywall and floor covering workers, plasterers and cement masons, plumbers and pipefitters, sheet metal workers, and stationary engineers. Recruiter Bob Alessandrelli [...]
Cabinet, INK is now in production! A partnership between the Children’s Cabinet and the Reno/Sparks Boys and Girls Club has developed an entrepreneurial training program for at risk youth in the area. A $174,000 grant from Nevadaworks is funding the start up of this silk-screening and design venture with the goal that all profits made [...]
The Workforce Investment Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1998, created Local Workforce Investment Boards such as Nevadaworks. Congress awards funds to Nevadaworks every year for the training of Adults, Youth, and Dislocated Workers. In today’s difficult economic conditions, many northern Nevadans qualify to receive training with Dislocated Worker funds, but many are unaware [...]
