Public Consulting Group (PCG) is pleased to announce the appointment of Leigh Ann Newman, Senior Program Manager, Marketing and Proposal Operations, to the International Board of Directors of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP). This two-year term is taking place from 2021 through 2022. APMP’s board currently includes 12 appointees and five Executive Committee members. The organization has over 10,000 members worldwide.

In December 2020, Congress passed and the President signed into law the COVID-19 Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act as part of an appropriations package that funds the federal government through federal fiscal year 2021 (FFY21). The law defines the term, ‘‘COVID–19 public health emergency period,’’ as the period beginning on April 1, 2020 and ending on September 30, 2021.

On January 21, 2021, Clark University in Worcester, MA, was awarded a $10 million apprenticeship grant from the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) to help provide workforce training for jobs in industries that are currently in demand, such as information technology (IT), manufacturing, and transportation.

In 2021, PCG will be working with the Child Care Services Association (CCSA) to start planning and developing North Carolina’s Early Childhood and School-Age (EC/SA) workforce registry. The registry will be a valuable resource for states to communicate with the EC/SA workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic and other emergencies.