State delivers $500,000 to Pratt’s Incubator for Sustainable Innovation
The Empire State Development Corporation has awarded Pratt Institute at $500,000 grant through the Regional Economic Development Council as part of a series of awards for job-creation prospects in Brooklyn. The grant will support the expansion of the Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation.
“Pratt Institute is grateful to New York State Senators Martin Golden and Dean Skelos, and the entire Regional Economic Development Council for this exceptional grant, which will allow the Design Incubator to extend its highly successful business development model,” said Pratt President Thomas F. Schutte. “As an organization that has both helped to foster and benefited from the Brooklyn renaissance of recent years, Pratt also deeply appreciates Governor Cuomo’s and Lieutenant Governor Duffy’s foresight in launching the Regional Economic Development Council to promote the borough’s continued economic growth and prosperity.”