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DMSCA Supplier Development Foundation Launches Project ALIGN to Support Communities Affected by Significant Disasters

First Initiative Will Support the Rebuilding of Knockalva Polytechnic College in Jamaica

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, December 1, 2025 - The Domestic Manufacturers Supply Chain Alliance’s Supplier Development Foundation (DMSCA Foundation) announces Project ALIGN, a supply chain relief and workforce recovery program. ALIGN stands for Advancing Learning, Industry, and Growth Networks. The program supports communities affected by significant disasters by restoring technical education, supporting students, and protecting continuity of supply for industries that rely on skilled labor.

The devastation in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa showed the need for a focused disaster relief initiative that protects education, training, and the people who anchor supply chains. This need shaped the launch of Project ALIGN and its purpose.

The first initiative under Project ALIGN will support the rebuilding of Knockalva Polytechnic College in Hanover, Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa caused serious damage to classrooms, labs, and training facilities. Restoring these spaces is important for students, educators, and the regional workforce. The program also supports students with temporary shelter, basic resources, and recovery assistance so they can return to class quickly.

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Supplier Capability Development + Capacity Expansion + Enablement for Community Economic Impact.

This event brings together entities with the DMSCA Ecosystem to focus on actualizing the capability development and capacity expansion support to make minority small-midsize manufacturers (SMMs) community economic change agents. Learn more about this important event at SYMPOSIUM

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Abbott has provided the DMSCA Supplier Development Foundation an initial $50k grant to support the Foundation's three Program Pillars: (1) the development, digitalization, and sustainability of DMSCA Supplier Members; (2) DMSCA Supplier Members' workforce training and credentialing; and, (3) the integration of and paid internships for HBCU supply chain management; industrial engineers, and information systems students at both minority small- to-midsized manufacturers (SMMs) and multinational enterprise (MNE) locations.

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Johnson and Johnson Announces Grant to the DMSCA Manufacturing Supplier Development Foundation to Support Minority Manufacturing Development and Digitalization for Industry 4.0 Supply Chains

New Brunswick, NJ. Today, Johnson & Johnson, announced a $123,000 CY22 grant to the DMSCA Manufacturing 501 (c )3 (Foundation) to support a development, digitalization, and workforce readiness of minority small- to-midsized manufacturers (SMMs) project for the competitive positioning in Multinational Enterprises’ (MNEs’) digitalized Industry 4.0 supply chains.

“We realize that the fourth industrial revolution, named Industry 4.o, is forever changing the supply chains of enterprises of all sizes and that supply chains are transitioning from linear to complex integrated data-driven supply chain networks to ensure long term resiliency. Further we understand that as large corporations transform their supply chains, so must all SMMs in their supply chain networks in order to ensure alignment” says Charlene Vickers, Global J&J Supplier Diversity Director.

Vickers adds says that “Given Johnson and Johnson’s commitment to fostering more value-added minority manufacturers’ content in its Industry 4.0 supply chains, this project specific grant helps to accelerate minority SMM inclusion by enabling:

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