An Introduction to the H-1B Ready to Work Grants Community

For nearly three decades, Barrington, New Jersey-based Bright Lights USA, Inc. has manufactured and distributed high quality defense spare parts. Bright Lights USA president and chief executive officer Daniel Farber represented the state of New Jersey before the United States Department of Labor as part of the H-1B Ready to Work grant program, a federal program designed to help long-term unemployed workers receive training and support to help them return to the workforce.

The online H-1B Ready to Work Grants Community, developed with the help of the Employment and Training Administration (ETA), is an invaluable online resource for grant recipients. The community has been designed to assist grantees in learning the best approaches to getting the most out of a ready to work (RTW) grant. Popular topics of conversation include how to find relevant job training and strategies for developing and moving forward with one’s career path. 

A few of the most popular resources available through the H-1B Ready to Work grants community include access to the annual RTW Grantee Webinar series and the H-1B Ready to Work Performance Reporting Handbook, which consists of quarterly program progress reports from grantees all around the country. The community also addresses common grant topics through a daily blog and a regularly updated H-1B RTW FAQ, both available at https://h1breadytowork.workforcegps.org/.

ALS Awareness Month Annually Observed in May

Bright Lights USA manufactures and sells defense components under the leadership of founding CEO and president Daniel Farber. Based in Barrington, New Jersey, Bright Lights USA also provides charitable aid to individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by supporting the ALS Association.

Kicking off ALS Awareness Month in May, the ALS Association emphasized the need to raise awareness about the disease. Calaneet Balas, the organization’s president and CEO, called for increased research funding and improved public policies that would benefit people with the condition.

One of the recent projects of the association is Project Revoice, which seeks to clone the voices of ALS patients before they lose the ability to speak. With the help of advanced technology, a digital voice clone can be produced by fully recreating the vocal essence of the patient.

Also called Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS affects the nerve cells responsible for the movement of voluntary muscles. People with the condition loses the ability to perform simple tasks like walking and talking.