Programs
GREEN Insitutute 2009-2010 Partners and Programs
GREEN Institute 2009-2010
Asian Neighborhood Design | California
- Asian Neighborhood Design (AND), a community development organization serving the San Francisco Bay Area, is committed to recruiting up to 20% women into its green employment training program. AND’s partnership with San Francisco Network Ministries’ SafeHouse (SFNMSH) program provides their program with a new population of women who are transitioning out of prostitution into a positive and self‐sufficient lifestyle. AND will be providing job placement for all of its graduates, as well as wrap‐around services to ensure that all of its participants receive the support needed to attain sustainable employment in the construction trades.
Butler Tech ONOW | Ohio
- Butler Tech helps to jump-start careers in industry and manufacturing and provides opportunity for women through their Orientation to Nontraditional Occupations for Women (ONOW), an eight-week job-training program for women to explore new careers and prepare for apprenticeships. Students gain basic instruction in math, blueprint reading, safety, employability skills, and more.
Centro Latino | Washington State
CLIMB Wyoming | Wyoming
- To meet Wyoming's workforce needs, the CLIMB programs are helping women enter construction and energy trades as well health care, office careers and more. They are in partnership with WY Dept of Workforce Services to acheive their goals for all participants,
- Complete the education and training necessary for job placement and be placed in demand jobs.
- Increase their wages to a livable level.
- Reduce their dependence on government benefits.
Community College of Aurora | Community College of Denver | Colorado
- The Community Colleges of Denver and Aurora have partnered to provide certificate training programs for careers in energy efficiency fields. The program will operate on the Lowry Campus in Denver beginning this Fall Semester.
Eastern Iowa Community College District | Iowa
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Focus in two areas:
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Recruiting women into the Alternative Energy field and to assist with job placement.
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Recruiting women and minorities to provide training in highway construction jobs and support with employment information and job coaching.
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Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network | Ohio
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The Workforce Network is a partnership between philanthropic funders, local and state government agencies, employers, chambers of commerce, educational institutions, service providers, and workforce investment boards in the Greater Cincinnati region. The Workforce Network received a Constructing Futures grant for nearly $1 million from the state of Ohio for pre-apprenticeship programs with a special emphasis on recruiting women and minorities. The Workforce Network will be working with Butler Tech ONOW to implement the work from the WOW GREEN Initiative using this grant.
San Francisco Network Ministries | California
- San Francisco Network Ministries Housing Corporation will be partnering with AND by referring their women clients to the AND training program. SFNMHC's SafeHouse program enables women to escape prostitution and build constructive, productive lives.
Tacoma Goodwill Industries | Washington State
United Community Services | Pennsylvania
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USC operates a Pre-Apprentice Initiative serving youth from low-income families and coordinates a regional Construction Industry Partnership board to address workforce development issues and developing paths into apprenticeships, which include green jobs.
The technical assistance provided by the GREEN Institute will be focused on recruiting women into trades and construction work by developing strategies for placing and retaining women in apprenticeship programs.
United Way of Central Alabama | Alabama
- The United Way of Central Alabama’s (UWCA) mission is “to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another and improve their community” with 87 years of addressing issues that impact the lives of Alabamians regionally and statewide. Through the United Way Financial Stability Partnership of Alabama, UWCA and its partners will utilize the GREEN Institute technical assistance to focus on those programs that are located in communities that have had been demonstrably affected by the recession and its particular impact on women.
Volunteers of America Northern New England - Women’s Re-entry Center | Maine
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VOANNE operates a program to enable women from the Bangor Reentry Center to exit with a set of skills enabling them to secure employment in the green collar employment sectors. Each participant is trained using National Center for Construction Education and Research Curriculum (NCCER). The Bangor Reentry Center is a 38 bed transitional program for female prison inmates run by VOANNE offering a “step-down” into a more normal life similar to what they will face after their release. These are nonviolent offenders with less than a year remaining on their sentence.
VOANNE has partnered with Women Unlimited to provide training and employment placement services to this population of women, in addition to Women, Work & Community; Maine Housing; Maine Department of Corrections, Labor and Education; The Sheridan Corporation; The Association of Builders and Contractors of Maine.
Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis | Tennessee
- WFGM is part of a coalition in the Memphis community promoting green and nontraditional jobs for women. Working closely with coalition partner Lab Four Career Training Institute, WFGM will recruit and train low-income community residents for careers in solar panel installation and residential energy auditing, which are the leading GREEN jobs in Memphis.
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Best Practices and Highlights
Clean Energy Works Portland
Portland, Oregon
Clean Energy Works Portland is an effort that will cut energy bills, create green jobs, reduce pollution and expand business opportunities. In addition, it will ensure that Recovery Act investment dollars reach those hit hardest by the recession. It's not a silver bullet, but it is a great model on which to build an important component of a new clean energy economy.
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.
To read the report and watch the video, or find out more about Clean Energy Works Portland follow these links:
report and video
Evergreen Cooperatives
Cleveland, Ohio
Green entreprenuership. Operating local busineses that are employee-owned. They hire locally to keep money in the community and worked with "anchor institutions," the universities and hospitals, to address viable needs for services.
Sustainable Business Network
Philadelphia, PA
The Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia is a business organization that brings together local leaders who aim to grow successful businesses that are socially and environmentally responsible.
In addition to general membership, the SBN Philadelphia has established a Green Economy Task Force, a coalition that drives policy, funding, job training, and employer commitment through committee work to increase the growth of green collar job opportunities within Philadelphia.
West Virginia Green Works
Providing workforce training, education and information resource dedicated to building diverse, sustainable opportunities in the green economy.
Program Objectives include:
- Identify leaders/experts in each sector, who understand what they need to move forward, and position WVGreenWorks to assist through training and joint outreach activities.
- Build a coalition of industry, agency, and organizational advocates who can move things forward in ways we’ve not seen happen in the past.
- Build a network of public forums in the state through collaborative partnerships with educational, civic, faith-based, and governmental organizations.
- Partner to make collective efforts go further working with community colleges and their contract education programs; career and technical education providers; universities as well as Workforce Investment Boards and other workforce development-oriented organizations with initiative and vision.
- Perform gap analysis to identify training, information and communication needs.
- Offer program development and outreach assistance to other organizations.
- Create and deliver green literacy workshops to inform and inspire others to consider green career options.
- Position WVGreenWorks to receive additional grant funding and contract revenues.
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