Nonprofit Brings Cities Together to Create AI Workforce Training in Atlantic City
Atlantic City NAACP, Bishop Robert Hargrove Backs Tech Opportunity Zone
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ATLANTIC CITY — The non-profit U.S. Humanitarian Aid Response Team CARES, U.S. HART CARES, announces a collaboration with six Atlantic County cities to develop an opportunity zone for artificial intelligence workforce training.
City leaders from Atlantic City, Brigantine, Longport, Margate, Pleasantville, and Ventnor come together during breakfast at Resorts Hotel and Casino on Dec. 15 to discuss their plans going into 2026. They will explore forming a Public Private Partnership (P3), focused on leveraging the Atlantic Coastal Tourism District Opportunity Zone. The breakfast starts at 8:30 a.m.
The zone would help create the mutually beneficial RX5 DATA, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence workforce training and economic development opportunities.
“Opportunity Zones are a wonderful economic development tool in the United States that provide tax incentives for investors to reinvest their capital gains into designated low-income urban and rural communities,” Bishop Robert Hargrove, founder of the Grace Community Development Corp., said in a statement.
“It’s an honor for GCDC to collaborate with U.S. HART CARES focusing on leading this extraordinary Atlantic Coastal Tourism District Opportunity Zones, will help spur innovative DATA, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence job creation and economic growth in distressed areas, as well as for Atlantic City’s Sister Coastal Cities.”
The ACTDOZ, led by Margate Mayor Michael Collins, will talk about its plans with the support of local businessmen Dr. Joseph Berrotone, Dr.Arthur Nahas, Michael Cohan, and Jimmy Whitehead.
“This unique collaboration goal of creating an opportunity for all six municipalities to work together and mutually benefit from the Atlantic Coastal Tourism District Opportunity Zone, located between Atlantic Avenue and the Boardwalk, and from New Hampshire Avenue to South Albany Avenue, is admirable and much needed,” Atlantic City NAACP President Kaleem Shabazz said.
Collins said the opportunity zone provides a great platform for our innovative strategic collaboration to expand new Atlantic coastal RX5 Cybersecurity Workforce Training, economic development, as well as financially reward new jobs.
“I’m glad [Atlantic County] Commissioner Micheal Ruffu is commemorating this important initiative with a resolution,” Collins said.
U.S. HART CARES President Horace Jones said the idea started as a cybersecurity workforce training program sponsored by former HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson and U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew.
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