Central to the Governor’s Workforce Board strategic plan are Industry Partnerships, powerful alliances among key partners and stakeholders that include education and training organizations, community-based organizations and the business community.

Industry Partnerships collaborate on strategies to reduce and eliminate identifiable skill gaps in the following high-growth, high-wage areas:

		Health Care
		Hospital Association of Rhode Island	www.hari.org
		Quality Partners of Rhode Island	www.riqualitypartners.org
		Financial Services
		Bioscience
		Tech Collective	www.tech-collective.org
		Construction
		Building Futures (The Providence Plan)	www.providenceplan.org
		Advanced Manufacturing
		Rhode Island Manufacturing Extension Services	www.rimes.org
		Marine Technologies
		Rhode Island Marine Trades Association	www.rimta.org
		International Yacht Restoration School	www.iyrs.org
		Hospitality/Tourism
		Rhode Island Hospitality and Tourism Association	www.rihospitality.org
		Information Technology
		Tech Collective brochure: Career Opportunities in IT	www.tech-collective.org
		Green
		New England Institute of Technology	www.neit.edu

These highly collaborative partnerships support the development of an efficient and demand-driven education system that will align resources and service delivery with the real needs of Rhode Island businesses. Similarly, Industry Partnership grants represent strategic investments in this demand-driven system which maximizes work opportunity and removes employment barriers for employers and workers alike.

Skills Gap Studies Reports, conducted by industry partners can be access by clicking on the . You will need Adobe Reader to view these files.