{"id":402578,"date":"2026-09-17T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402578\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:12:09","slug":"financial-firm-invests-25000-in-local-workforce-training-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402578\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial firm invests $25,000 in local workforce training initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 17, 2026 &#8211; Citizens, a financial services firm, has provided a $25,000 grant to the Tampa Bay Economic Development Council\u2019s Tampa Bay Economic Prosperity Foundation to support <a href=\"https:\/\/certuptampa.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CertUp<\/a>. According to a prepared statement, \u00a0the initiative connects &#8220;Tampa Bay residents with short-term training and certificate programs that prepare them for high-demand careers.&#8221; Citizens&#8217; investment &#8220;will be leveraged to promote financial technology programs and educate local residents about the wide range of career opportunities available in the financial services industry.&#8221;&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September 17, 2026 &#8211; Citizens, a financial services firm, has provided a $25,000 grant to the Tampa Bay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-402578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}