Dayton-area businesses in targeted growth industries may be eligible for financial assistance in employing dislocated workers.
Project Hire, a State of Ohio program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, may provide stipends of up to $6,000 per hired employee to assist with training expenses.
By packaging job seekers’ existing skills with a tax credit and additional training, these individuals will become more attractive to prospective employers, beyond what the job seekers could have accomplished on his or her own. The job training will be funded through the use of Ohio Learning Accounts (OLA), which will provide dislocated workers short-term training resulting in an industry-recognized, portable credential to expand employment opportunities. The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a federal credit administered by the state that employers can take for hiring workers from the following disadvantaged groups: unemployed veterans, disconnected youth in need of skills, member of a family receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), long term family or food assistance recipient, person living in a federally designated empowerment zone, summer youth program employee, vocational rehabilitation referral, ex-felon, and supplemental security income (SSI) recipient
Total Funds: The initiative will be funded with $8 million from the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act Statewide Workforce funds in Fiscal Year 2010.
The Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with Montgomery County, will hold a workshop on Tuesday, December 1, to help employers determine their eligibility. It will be held at Sinclair Community College’s Building 12, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
To register for the December 1 event, visit www.daytonchamber.org.
For more information on Project Hire, contact Chris Wimsatt at the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce at 226-8293.
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Stop in for a delicious lunch or dinner at either (or both!) of the Chili’s locations November 23-25 and 10% of your purchase will be donated to Dayton Children’s.
On Tuesday, Nov 17th 
Thursday, Nov 19th is Beaujolais Nouveaus Day, and a great reason to host a holiday tasting, and that’s exactly what the ladies who run 
a fun time. A Taste of Wine is located at the corner of Main & Linden in downtown Miamisburg and has a very homey, comfortable atmosphere.
Dayton Regional Green Task Force
Oakwood’s Dorothy Lane Market will host their monthly tasting on Wed, Nov 18 from 5:30 to 8:30pm with special guest John Bisson of North Coast Brewing Company. This California brewer is a pioneer in the craft beer movement, started in 1988 as a local brewpub in the historic town of Fort Bragg, located on California’s Mendocino Coast.
The YWCA Dayton is seeking nominations for its 2010 Women of Influence Awards. This award honors women in the greater Dayton community who have made a positive impact on the lives of people in the Miami Valley through their community service.
This year instead of the annual Holiday cooking class before Thanksgiving, they’ve decided to do all the work and offer an El Meson Holiday Dinner. So you can enjoy their holiday spread this Fri, Nov 13th or Sat, Nov 14th from 5-10pm.
The Three Amigas are Marie Clay, Mercedes Henriquez, and Yvette Williams. These ladies are certified fitness instructors and personal trainers who strive to empower others through fitness. Call it a ministry of sorts, each “Amiga” has their own fitness testimony. Marie is a certified personal fitness trainer, certified in Zumba instruction, cardio kick boxing and hatha yoga. Mercedes is a certified group aerobics leader as well as Zumba certified. Yvette is Zumba certified and is also a certified personal fitness trainer and sport nutritionist. The trio loves Latin dance and incorporates it in as many of their fitness routines as possible.
Guest Zumba instructors include:
This U.S. holiday stretches back to the end of World War I and commemorates the nation’s thousands of combat veterans who fought in the service of their country.
Long before themed dinners became the staple of restaurants, Mary Kay Smith started offering a Garlic inspired dinner. Folks flocked to Yellow Springs for those garlic inspired dishes, and now 20 years later, the same thing will happen this Tues, Nov 10th – Thurs, Nov 12th.
Innovation is a new way of doing something that results in improved value or quality. It employs “out-of-the-box” thinking to generate positive changes in thinking, products, processes, organizations, and society. It makes creative thinking a useful reality.
Award-winning filmmaker and former Daytonian Tony Heriza returns to the Gem City to premiere his new documentary “