The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)
Applications open for small businesses to apply for fed funds
MIDDLETOWN — Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, D-Connecticut, took a tour of Charles IT May 3 to announce that the small business — and other entities — are eligible to apply for funding from the federal spending package.
The information technology company, located at 150 William St., is owned by resident Foster Charles.
The visit was meant to highlight federal investments to expand job development, technical training apprenticeships, and continued investments in supporting grant funding to support, train and recruit technical workers, according to a press release.
DeLauro is chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee Labor, Health, and Human Services Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee.
“We’re looking at moving federal resources to these kinds of efforts in a serious, serious way,” DeLauro said.
Charles IT routinely provides training for employees in a growing field, she added. “It gives you the sense of the dimension of how this is the future, and you are the future, and it’s growing.”
She pledged support for the business so it can “grow and change the dynamic around the issue, and engage and bring more people into it,” DeLauro said.
The company recently gained approval for a special exception to potentially move to the former Rite Aid building, a formerly office space zone.
The company, founded in 2006 is an information technology engineering firm in downtown Middletown. They outsource information technology services to over 170 clients including manufacturers, healthcare services, and cyber security.
It has 75 employees and a second location in Stamford.
Charles IT said in a press release that it has “friendly, no-nonsense IT team focused on helping companies in highly regulated industries make their technology work for them.”