Guilfordworks Receives Award For Innovative Partnerships

Press release from the City of Greensboro:

Post Date:10/22/2020 10:00 AM

GuilfordWorks has just been awarded the Governor’s NCWorks Awards of Distinction for Innovative Partnerships for Code Guilford: Community Coding Workforce Initiative. Working with community partners, GuilfordWorks developed a unique educational opportunity which offered exposure to technology-based career options for youth and adults.

Introduced in July 2019, the Code Guilford initiative was created by these community partners: Guilford County Workforce Development Board (GuilfordWorks); Welfare Reform Liaison Project, Inc.; Guilford Technical Community College (GTCC); and Guilford County Schools (GCS).

The virtual presentation ceremony with Governor Cooper can be viewed online at YouTube.

“It has been exciting to realize the power of community collaboration through this initiative. Code Guilford demonstrated our collective capacity to expose and equip our workforce with skills that will be in high demand, across multiple industries, for years to come,” GuilfordWorks Executive Director Chris Rivera said.

The City of Greensboro’s Office of Workforce Development — which organizes program services and operations within the Greensboro/High Point/Guilford County Workforce Development Board (WBD) — is commonly referred to as GuilfordWorks.

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