Two Ohio organizations – the Buckeye Hills-Hocking Valley Regional Development District of Reno, Ohio, and the N.E.O. Foundation of Cleveland – were among 10 organizations awarded a total of $20.5 million worth of grants for "their work encouraging companies to bring jobs to the United States," The Columbus Dispatch reports. Buckeye Hills received $1.7 million for workforce training and also to "help identify, research and document attributes of up to 1,000 development sites" in the eight southeastern Ohio counties that it represents. N.E.O. received $1.79 million to "help identify up to 25 firms with the potential to attract foreign investment from the biomedical, automotive and advanced-energy sectors in Akron, Canton, Cleveland, Lorain and Youngstown," as well as for technical assistance and workforce hiring and training in advanced-materials development.
Two Ohio economic development entities receive federal grants to help bring jobs to the United States
