Resources
Welcome to the Green Jobs and Service Clearinghouse
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.
This clearinghouse is a collaborative project of Green For All and partners: the Apollo Alliance, Center for American Progress, Center for State Innovation, Center on Wisconsin Strategy, Ella Baker Center For Human Rights, Energy Action Coalition, Innovations in Civic Participation, and The Corps Network.
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Featured Resources
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.
ASES Green Collar Jobs report forecasts 37 million jobs from renewable energy and energy efficiency in U.S. by 2030
ASES / MISI study reveals opportunities, warnings in nation’s first update of groundbreaking study; hottest sectors: solar, wind, biofuels, fuel cells
Green For All 2008 Annual Report
Green For All accomplished so much in its first 12 months! We are honored to share it with you here in the form of our first annual report. In this document you can read about how we are realizing the dream of an inclusive green economy.
Green Jobs Guidebook
New environmental and energy laws and policies will create of tens of thousands of new jobs in California. This guide from the Environmental Defense Fund provides: profiles of 200 green jobs currently in California; details on 45 job types for high school grads, many paying over $25 per hour; information on job training and placement programs; and listings of valuable apprenticeship programs.
Uncle Sam's Rusty Toolkit
The advent of the Obama Administration presents an opportunity to reform federal economic development policy using innovations that have been pioneered at the state and local levels. Goods Jobs First provides a framework for that process in a new report called Uncle Sam's Rusty Toolkit, which is being released together with the AFL-CIO, Change to Win, Green for All, the National Employment Law Project, and the Partnership for Working Families.
Change for America
The Center for American Progress Action Fund, along with New Democracy Project, has released Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President, to help guide the presidential transition process and steer the government in a new, more progressive direction.
Local Government Green Jobs Pledge
The 21st century is our time to build an inclusive green economy in the United States that benefits our communities, our working families and our planet. Right now a green future is being invented in cities and counties across the US by local leaders – mayors, county executives, community activists, local business owners, and youth organizers- in brief all of us.
Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities
New publication outlines strategies for developing green-collar job initiatives and pathways out of poverty at the local level. Co-authored by Green For All, this report describes a 4-step approach for local initiatives and highlights a dozen great efforts already underway around the country.
Greener Pathways: Jobs and Workforce Development in the Clean Energy Economy
This new report details current economic and workforce development opportunities in three leading industries: energy efficiency, wind, and biofuels. It talks about the specific kinds of jobs in the clean energy economy, the skills needed to fill these jobs, and how existing businesses and their workers can move to the center of the clean energy economy. The report also examines federal resources that can support state green jobs initiatives, and concludes by outlining a plan of action for state policymakers.
The Green Jobs Act
The Green Jobs Act of 2007 authorized $125 million per year from the federal government to create an Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Worker Training Program. The Green Jobs Act is an initial pilot program to identify needed skills, develop training programs, and train workers for jobs in a range of green industries. It targets a broad range of populations for eligibility, but has a special focus on creating “green pathways out of poverty.” Congress has not yet appropriated the $125M for the Green Jobs Act. Green For All and its partners are advocating for full funding of the Green Jobs Act.
