{"595358":{"#nid":"595358","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Southeastern Trade Adjustment Assistance Center receives $1.3 million in federal funds","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded $13.3 million in federal funds to support 11 Trade Adjustment Assistance Centers (TAACs), including the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/setaac.org\u0022\u003ESoutheastern Trade Adjustment Assistance Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(SETAAC) at Georgia Tech, which will receive $1.3 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETAACs work to support a wide range of technical, planning, and business recovery projects that help companies and the communities that depend on them adapt to international competition and diversify their economies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The Trump administration is working every day to help America\u0026rsquo;s manufacturers, their workers, and their communities,\u0026rdquo; U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said in a statement. \u0026ldquo;This funding is one element of a government-wide effort to restore American jobs and strengthen U.S. manufacturing.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe announced grants are for the second year of a funding cycle that runs from 2016 to 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESETAAC, a program of the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI\u003Csup\u003E2\u003C\/sup\u003E), was established in 1974. In addition to serving Georgia, SETAAC works with companies in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESETAAC provides up to $75,000 of matching funds for\u0026nbsp;third-party consultants to help guide a client\u0026rsquo;s economic recovery. Eligible manufacturing firms contribute a matching share to create and implement their respective recovery plan.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Fiscal Year 2017, SETAAC worked with 45 clients, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/setaac.org\/news\/old-wood-company\/\u0022\u003EDarren Green of The Old Wood Co.\u003C\/a\u003E in Asheville, North Carolina, and helped those firms generate more than $9.7 million in sales, and help save or create 143 jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Funding supports international competitiveness."}],"uid":"28137","created_gmt":"2017-08-31 14:58:15","changed_gmt":"2017-08-31 15:12:48","author":"P\u00e9ralte Paul","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"595367":{"id":"595367","type":"image","title":"The Old Wood Company","body":null,"created":"1504192321","gmt_created":"2017-08-31 15:12:01","changed":"1504192321","gmt_changed":"2017-08-31 15:12:01","alt":"Darren Green ","file":{"fid":"226895","name":"Darren Green_Old Wood Company.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Darren%20Green_Old%20Wood%20Company.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Darren%20Green_Old%20Wood%20Company.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4212081,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Darren%20Green_Old%20Wood%20Company.jpg?itok=jE78wJ2W"}}},"media_ids":["595367"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"139","name":"Business"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175367","name":"SETAAC"},{"id":"815","name":"economic development"},{"id":"364","name":"Funding"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor media inquiries, contact:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELaura Diamond\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404.894.6016\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["peralte.paul@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}