{"id":445230,"date":"2026-08-27T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445230\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:54:09","slug":"fresno-state-getting-over-4-million-in-funding-to-support-job-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445230\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno State getting over $4 million in funding to support job creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno State is set to get more than $4 million in funding aimed at supporting job creation and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investments were announced Wednesday through California&#8217;s jobs first initiative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was revealed as state leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, gathered in Solano County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In total, $48.5 million will be awarded across 33 counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno State will get $4.36 million for the university&#8217;s flagship innovation hub, The Forge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It will support startups in manufacturing, robotics, ag-tech and much more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Newsom says it&#8217;s part of the state&#8217;s commitment to boost jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We launched this initiative officially in Fresno, California,&#8221; Newsom said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been up to the Redwood coast, we&#8217;ve been down the border, we&#8217;ve been all over the state of California, trying to reconcile that disparity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Newsom says the funds will support 20,000 new jobs and 18 projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno State is set to get more than $4 million in funding aimed at supporting job creation and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7,1307,112,114,113,742,457],"class_list":["post-445230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california","tag-economic-growth","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-state","tag-gavin-newsom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}