Resources
Resources for our Movement.
Here you will find a range of resources on green-collar job creation and training as well as on green service programs and other related topics.
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Featured Resources
Understanding the Weatherization Assistance Program
This document offers a basic understanding of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program and guidance on how to produce the best results possible.
Understanding the State Energy Program - from Green For All
This document offers a basic understanding of the U.S. Department of Energy’s State Energy Program and guidance on how to produce the best results possible.
Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act: Summary of Selected Major Provisions
On September 30th, Senators John Kerry (MA) and Barbara Boxer (CA) introduced the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. Following the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) by the House of Representatives in June, this is an important next step in crafting strong climate and energy legislation that can kick-start our struggling economy, creating clean energy jobs and putting American industries at the global forefront of the burgeoning clean energy sector. This is a summary of some of the major provisions in the Kerry-Boxer discussion draft.
Community Workforce Agreement in Portland guarantees expanded job opportunity and standards for thousands of clean-energy jobs
On September 30, 2009, the Portland City Council passed a resolution endorsing a groundbreaking Community Workforce Agreement that will lead to the creation of thousands of good jobs in the clean-energy economy for low-income workers. Green For All is proud to have partnered with the City of Portland to craft this landmark agreement, which serves as a model for the nation.
JFYNetWorks training ranges from brownfields to green jobs
Since 1976, JFYNetWorks has helped more than 50,000 youth and adults throughout the state of Massachusetts earn high school credentials, acquire marketable job skills, and find career-ladder employment in growth industries. The community-based organization targets out-of school youth, career changers, immigrants, and the underemployed.
Understanding the Competitive Grants for Green Jobs Training
Green For All has prepared a pamphlet about the U.S. Department of Labor's $500 million in Competitive Grants for Green Jobs Training, which are new under the Recovery Act. The pamphlet is meant as a resource for policy advocates, policy makers, employers, individuals, and applicants. It includes key information about each grant program, recommendations for how grantees can best implement these grants, and tips for writing grant proposals.
Louisiana Green Corps provides green job training to court-involved youth (VIDEO)
Since its inception in 2008, the Louisiana Green Corps has graduated 68 court-involved youth from its green jobs training programs, with another 100 now in various stages of training. The LA Green Corps educates youth aged 17-24 in green construction, weatherizing homes, material deconstruction and reuse, and energy-saving techniques.
Business Guide to the Recovery
The purpose of this guide is to help businesses and nonprofits navigate the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). While the federal government has shown great initiative in passing ARRA, it is the private sector that will sustain our economic stability. This guide identifies opportunities to leverage ARRA investments to bring the green economy to scale, both nationally and in America’s most vulnerable communities.
On the front line in the fight against dirty energy: Veterans Green Jobs
Regardless of their position on the two Gulf Wars, most Americans recognize that our Veterans fought a war over energy. This fact is not lost on Veterans Green Jobs, a new kind of veterans service organization comprised of both veterans and civilians who share a larger mission of ensuring that the American heroes who have fought the front lines of our wars over energy are on the front lines of reducing our nation’s dependence on dirty energy.
Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States
"Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States", is a new report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (PERI), commissioned by Green For All and NRDC.
Federal Resources to Enhance and Sustain Green Pathways Out of Poverty Programs
This guide includes a short list of federal discretionary funding resources (mostly that existed before the Recovery Act) that may support a diverse array of services and activities for participants in green jobs training programs. This list is not meant to be exhaustive but to encourage broad and creative thinking about strategic planning for the financing and sustainability of green pathway out of poverty programs.
Green Pathways Out of Poverty: Workforce Development Initiatives
Workforce development practitioners face a set of common questions about services, partnerships, curriculum, certifications, links to employers, funding and measuring their results. Green For All convened a working group of training providers focused on providing green pathways out of poverty to start developing answers to these shared questions. This document is a product of that convening and identifies five keys to success for green workforce development. These keys, when combined with effective leadership and staff, help these programs serve the workers the programs train, the businesses and industry they support, and the environment they aim to protect.
Green Jobs/Green Homes New York
A new report from the Center for American Progress, the Center for Working Families, and Half in Ten shows how innovative public policy can transform the market for home energy efficiency, create tens of thousands of new clean-energy jobs, and leverage billions in private capital to revitalize the housing sector.
Green Cities: a Living Cities Report
"Green Cities: How Urban Sustainability Efforts Can and Must Drive America's Climate Change Policies." This report is an effort by Living Cities to showcase and support the innovative ways in which cities are creating an equitable green economy.
Report: Race and Recession
Race and Recession: How Inequity Rigged the Economy and how to Change the Rules tells the stories of people of color who are disproportionately affected by the recession. It uncovers root causes of long-term racial inequities that fed into the economic crisis. It proposes structural solutions to change a system that threatens future generations.
Bringing Home the Green Recovery: A User's Guide
The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act can serve as a down payment, if invested wisely, on building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Green For All and PolicyLink have prepared this User’s Guide to assist local and state advocates, nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and policymakers in making the best use of recovery dollars.
Green Recovery For All Toolkit
This Green Recovery For All Toolkit suggests a few actions you can take to bring home a green recovery for all in your community. Many important decisions about Recovery Package investments will be made within 30 to 90 days of February 17. City Hall needs to hear from you! Whatever you choose to do, be creative, be bold, and act now to be part of the conversation.
Going Green: The Vital Role of Community Colleges in Building a Sustainable Future and a Green Workforce
This report details the ways in which community colleges are becoming living-learning classrooms to prepare workers for new or altered jobs in the clean-energy economy and to make campuses themselves more environmentally friendly.
Race and Jobs Phone Forum - Tuesday, February 17th
Update: Listen to the call in streaming audio. Will the economic recovery plan make a difference for communities of color? Is Obama's agenda racial-justice-ready? This is a key opportunity to learn about what key federal legislation and the changing political landscape can do to create good jobs for those who need them most.
