An award from the state's Job Development Investment Grant program to Novo Nordisk helped make the project possible. Novo Nordisk is eligible to receive up to twelve annual reimbursements equal to 75% of the state personal income tax withholdings from the eligible new jobs created since the date of the initial award. Over 12 years, the company could aggregate benefits of $15.8 million upon the creation of approximately 700 jobs. The project was also made possible by a performance-based grant from the One North Carolina fund of up to $1 million. The One NC Fund provides financial assistance, through local governments, to attract business projects that will stimulate economic activity and create new jobs in the state. "A community needs well-trained workers in order to attract these kinds of jobs," said State Senator Buck Newton. "Johnston County invested early on in a bio-manufacturing workforce pipeline that enables it to compete at the global level."