Capital Blue Cross awarded Lehigh County-based KidsPeace a $50,000 educational improvement grant.  

Apprenticeship programs are growing across the state to help students earn while they learn and provide employers with a stream of workers they need. Thursday, Gov. Tom Wolf announced awards totaling more than $11 million for 26 apprenticeship programs for occupations in agriculture, manufacturing, health care, IT, education, human services, building trades and more. 

The state Department of Agriculture is looking for research proposals on sustaining and growing Pennsylvania’s $132.5 billion agriculture industry. 

The Pennsylvania Department of Education’s (PDE) Bureau of Postsecondary and Adult Education today announced the grants are now available through the Adult Basic Education Direct Service grant competition. 

Governor Tom Wolf announced today grants were awarded to 2,115 fire and EMS companies across the state, including Berks, Carbon, Lehigh and Northampton counties. 

Three businesses in the Lehigh Valley are receiving grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as part of a larger, $32 million investment in rural Pennsylvania.

A number of projects in the Greater Lehigh Valley are among the 34 projects receiving $6 million in Keystone Communities Program grants in the state. 

AgConnect and The Innovative Technology Action Group received PAsmart Industry Partnership grants to develop the workforce in the Lehigh Valley and surrounding counties. 

State Rep. Jeanne McNeill, (D-Lehigh), today announced the state has awarded $2.75 million in funding to three projects in Lehigh County from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. 

Lehigh Valley Health Network’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital and the intensive care unit at Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Muhlenberg will receive $4.5 million of state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) grants for support and expansion of capacity.