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Green For All: Green Recovery For All series
These pamphlets can help you understand key components of the Recovery Act, including what funds are available, how the funds may be used, and how cities, states and other entities can maximize the benefit to their communities.
Understanding the Competitive Grants for Green Jobs Training
Green For All has prepared this 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.
This website allows you to track where recovery projects are occuring and how much of the recovery money is being spent on the state or county levels. Details about specific projects are also available. Visit the website here.
Federal Resources to Enhance and Sustain Green Pathways Out Of Poverty Programs
This guide includes a short list of federal discretionary resources (mostly that existed before ARRA) that may support a diverse array of services and activities for participants in green jobs training programs, and includes excerpts of descriptions from the programs’ websites. 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.
United States Government’s Stimulus Website
In order to accomplish the mission set out in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and provide information for the public to monitor the progress of the stimulus package, www.Recovery.gov was set up to provide: weekly updates of the agencies’ funding notifications, financial and activity reports, map of state-by-state funding, graphs charting the weekly progress of agencies made available and paid-out funds, map showing the recipients of funds and the resulting projects, written reports on the agencies’ plans for where and how they’ll spend the funds, information on Federal contracts, grants and loans, a map illustrating the estimates of jobs to be created or saved, links to job information sites, links to State Recovery sites and other government Recovery sites, tools for the public to report for waste, fraud, and abuse of recovery funds, and oversight audits by the Inspectors General of each Agency.
Economic Recovery- A Philadelphia Agenda
This report, published by the Institute for the Study of Civic Values, lays out the goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and how those goals relate to challenges facing Philadelphia. Specifically, it lays out seven goals of the program that can help Philadelphia succeed. These goals are: Protect the safety net economy; rehabilitate and repair affordable housing; weatherize Philadelphia; repair roads and highways and expand public transportation; strengthen Philadelphia health care; create public safety and community service jobs; and assist small businesses.
A Guide to the ARRA in Pennsylvania
This guide, produced by Senator Casey’s office, outlines why the ARRA is good for Pennsylvania, how funding will flow to Pennsylvania, and then provides a category by category breakdown of benefits for Pennsylvanians.
Green For All’s Bringing Home the Green Recovery
The recently passed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is a big, bold, and historic investment intended to kick-start the United States economy and lay the foundation for long-term economic growth and stability. It can also serve as a down payment, if invested wisely, on building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. The challenge, however, is the political and economic urgency to spend Recovery Act funds quickly in order to put large numbers of people back to work. 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.
Greener Pathways: Jobs and Workforce Development in the Clean Energy Economy
This report details economic and workforce development opportunities in three leading industries: energy efficiency, wind, and biofuels. It identifies examples of middle-skill occupations (requiring more than high school but less than a four-year degree) in each sector and whether each requires moderate or long-term on-the-job training.
This report focuses on how a clean energy agenda will create job opportunities for low- income people. It shows the number and types of jobs estimated from spending in three clean energy investment areas (energy efficiency building retrofits, public transportation, and smart grid electrical transmission systems)and three renewable energy areas (solar power, wind power, and biomass fuels). It sorts occupations into three educational credential categories: jobs requiring a college degree, some college, and high school or less.
Philadelphia Factsheet
Charting a Path: An Exploration of the Statewide Career Pathway Efforts in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin
This report encapsulates the journeys taken by Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin in establishing career pathways. It begins with an exploration of the vision and framework guiding career pathways in each state and then details who is being served (both students and employers), the support services available to aid with persistence and completion of pathways programs, and the outcomes being measured and achieved.
Professor Raquel Pinderhughes, San Francisco State University
Raquel Pinderhughes is Professor of Urban Studies at San Francisco State University. Her teaching, research and community activism focus on improving quality of life for people living and working in cities. Her areas of expertise include sustainable urban development, urban infrastructures, environmental justice, green collar jobs, appropriate technologies, urban agriculture, community food security, and local food systems. Email
All across the country, exciting partnerships are forming. Unlikely allies are coming together to create model green job training programs that successfully build pathways out of poverty. And the Recovery Act includes green job training grants to fund these programs, for which the Department of Labor will begin soliciting proposals in June. On this call presenters: discussed the Department of Labor’s green jobs training grants; emphasized the importance of partnerships between community, labor, industry, higher education and workforce systems in order for programs to become successful and to qualify for the DOL green jobs training grants; and gave examples of successful partnerships among unlikely allies.
Sustaining Partnerships for Regional Economic Growth: A Compendium of Promising Practices and Tools
This publication is a collection of promising practice partnership examples from community colleges across the country and some tools useful for partnership planning, management, and evaluation from programs, policymakers, and intermediaries.
Building Effective Partnerships between the Public Workforce System and Faith-based and Community Organizations
This publication is a step-by-by step guide to developing and implementing a FBCO network. Each step draws on lessons from the PRO WIBs and Seedco’s experience. Case Studies Laborers International Union of North America, Weatherization Training Program, Website; LIUNA Website
L.A. Trade-Technical College, Green College Initiative
This website provides information and resources about the Green College Initiative @ LATTC within the Division of Workforce Education and Economic Development. Los Angeles Trade-Technical College seeks to be a significant contributor in creating the new energy economy through green-related policy, education, and practices by (1) creating the demand side of the green economy through green building practices and by operating “Green Businesses Within a College” employing policies and practices that meet clean and green standards and (2) providing the supply side of the green economy by developing and implementing education training and degree programs for high growth, high-demand, and emerging green-related industries and occupations.
