Economic Development Administration (EDA) CARES Act Grant

The ROI program was granted $1.2 million in funding by the EDA in June 2020. With a three-phase implementation plan, the purpose of the grant is to support educational remote work training for communities affected by COVID-19. As such, part of the CRWL course extended toward aiding business leaders located in eight urban counties outside the ROI’s purview. These eight urban counties include Davis, Morgan, Salt Lake, Summit, Tooele, Utah, Wasatch, and Weber.

The key performance indicator is:

● 450 remote job positions created over the 3-year duration of the grant. This is broken down into 150 remote jobs per fiscal year.

Results

The requirements for this grant were met as of 2022. Intermountain Healthcare, Priority Dispatch, and Complete Recovery all implemented fully remote or hybrid positions in their companies after completing the CRWL course. Intermountain Healthcare created/converted roughly 2,000 jobs, Priority Dispatch reported 200 jobs, and Complete Recovery, 150. See some of their stories on page 19.