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Government Affairs | People

Carolinas AGC Wins Two National Awards at National Conference

by GroundBreak Staff Report on October 8, 2021

Carolinas AGC (CAGC) is pleased to announce it was among a small group of AGC chapters from across the country honored with 2021 Chapter Awards at the 2021 AGC National and Chapter Leadership Conference, which took place September 19-20 in Orlando, Florida. CAGC was awarded two of the seven awards, the only chapter of 89 chapters nationwide to earn more than one award. The AGC of America Chapter Awards recognizes chapters that have developed outstanding programming and excelled at achieving tangible accomplishments during the calendar year.

Honors included the Chapter Public Relations Award for their efforts to support the Construction Industry through a $3.75M Construction Pandemic Mitigation and Education Grant from the North Carolina General Assembly, as well as the Chapter Workforce Development Award for their 2020 workforce development efforts.

Chapter Public Relations Award

Through listening sessions with our members and other groups representing the construction industry, CAGC learned of the challenge many construction businesses, particularly small and minority owned companies, were having with financing pandemic mitigation efforts. Although some businesses were able to get financial assistance with PPP loans, many were left out of this process and needed help with considerable unbudgeted costs such as buying PPE for their workers and cleaning equipment for their jobsites. Through a grant funded by the state legislature, CAGC was awarded $3.75 million for construction pandemic mitigation and education outreach from the state’s share of the federal CARES Act funding. $3.0 million was used to make subgrants to businesses, non-profits and other eligible groups for mitigation efforts related to health and safety measures, and the additional $750,000 was used to make subgrants to media organizations, businesses and non-profits for multilingual education, training, and community outreach programs.

Chapter Workforce Development Award

The Carolinas AGC Foundation recognized the key to building a successful comprehensive workforce development initiative needed to be deeply rooted in effectively mapping out a strategic plan of action designed to address the most critical needs of our industry—recruiting, training and retaining a sustainable workforce. To build upon CAGC’s Build Your Career (BYC) program, CAGC implemented additional robust programs in 2020, a sampling includes:

  • Updating the BYC website to include a skills assessment quiz; career pathway information; a listing of construction-related training and curriculum offerings throughout the Carolinas; a new educational video series Building Your 21st Century Construction Career; a fully loaded resource toolkit for Ambassadors and educators; school visit request forms; information on registered pre-apprenticeship programs; a jobs posting board, and more.
  • Creating a comprehensive construction education video series for our Ambassadors to use during virtual or live Careers-in-Construction school visits.
  • Partnering with the NC K-12 system and Wake County Educational system to produce a construction-themed SummerSTEM workshop for nearly 100 educators.
  • Creating a customizable teacher externship program template for virtual or live use.
  • Creating an original content Workforce Development CE elective course for the NC Licensing Board for General Contractors titled Ways to Create, Retain & Sustain a Viable Workforce.

For more information on the CAGC grant or our Workforce Development programs, please contact Betsy Bailey, CAGC Director of NC Government Relations & Building Division at bbailey@carolinasagc.org.

Topics: Government Affairs, People
CAGC, Carolinas AGC

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