Resources
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
Community Gardens: How To
Community garden projects are springing up all over the country, especially in urban areas, as the benefits of these projects are becoming widely recognized. With the helpful tips inside this guide, start a Community Garden in your neighborhood today!
Bridging the Equity Gap: Driving Community Health Outcomes Through the Green Jobs Movement
In Bridging the Equity Gap: Driving Community Health Outcomes Through the Green Jobs Movement, Green For All makes the case that the Green Jobs Movement can bring about a systems change to improve economic, environmental and health conditions for low-income communities.
Healthy Food For All: Planting Seeds of Change
A healthy and sustainable food system restores our soil, water and wildlife, and fights global warming by relying less on fossil fuels. An equitable food system can be a source of empowering work opportunities. Watch our video and download our brochure to take action in your community.
Increasing Demand for Home Retrofits: Community-Based Outreach and Mobilization
This best practice brief outlines the benefits of and strategies behind using community-based outreach and mobilization to generate demand for home energy retrofits.
Green Speak: A Glossary of Terms used in Green Business
This glossary provides useful definitions for many of the terminology and buzzwords frequently used within the green industry. This guide serves as an introductory resource for anyone new to the intersection of sustainability and social justice, as well as for those who lack an exhaustive understanding of commonly used jargon.
Where To Get the Green: Sources of Funds for Green Entrepreneurs
Many people struggle to figure out how they can obtain the capital required to start and/or scale a business. This guide may not offer all of the answers, but it does provide helpful insights into a wide variety of financing options available to aspiring entrepreneurs as well as existing small business owners.
10 Green Business Ideas for New Entrepreneurs
Many people see solar panels and wind turbines, and wonder how they are supposed to engage the green business economy. This guide outlines ten accessible business ideas that can be pursued by just about anyone, including those that are capital constrained.
Going Green: A Guide to Greening Your Business
This guide is for the small business owner who is interested in reducing the environmental footprint of his/her company's operations, and provides specific recommendations and resources for those who want to go green -- and save money by doing so.
The Green Business Plan Guide
While there is an abundance of resources focused on how to write a business plan, virtually none of the publications that exist today detail how to include environmental and social justice concerns. This guide attempts to explain how someone focused on the triple bottom line -- profit, planet, and people -- goes about writing a business plan for a truly green business.
Greener Skills: How Credentials Create Value in the Clean Energy Economy
Even as this report delineates prominent national credentials in selected clean energy sectors, its purpose is larger: to suggest a more rational framework for human capital development in a greening economy.
An Industry at the Crossroads: Energy Efficiency Employment in Massachusetts
The United states building energy efficiency market is projected to double in size over the next 20 years. Massachusetts, a national leader in this field, has already earmarked $1.4 billion to create thousands of jobs in the construction sector retrofitting more than 100,000 residential units and 20,000 commercial and municipal structures over the next three years.
Clean Energy Works Portland Report
Green For All's report details why Clean Energy Works Portland has such special appeal. The program includes a revolving loan fund with innovative "on-bill financing" and a Community Workforce Agreement that creates jobs in the communities that need them most.
Bridging the Economic and Climate Gap: A Workshop by Green For All
This workshop will help illustrate the reality of the climate and economic gaps and how they are related. Use this guide (with discussion questions and sample answers) to organize a workshop for your friends, family, and neighbors. You’ll inspire excitement and provide information about the role of green-collar jobs in bridging these gaps!
Statewide green job training program in New Jersey led by unique partnership.
Led by the New Jersey Building Laborers Training and Apprenticeship Fund (NJBLTAF), the partnership includes the Black Ministers Council of NJ, the state’s County Vocational-Technical Schools, Laborers’ Union Local 55, and the Workforce Investment System.
Update from Washington State: SustainableWorks secures Recovery grant.
In May of 2009, we reported on a major legislative victory for clean-energy jobs in Washington, thanks to deep community involvement and champions in the state legislature. Now, the application process for those funds is complete, and a great organization called SustainableWorks won a Recovery grant.
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.
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.
