http://www.greenforall.org Blog entries categorized as "Recovery" daily 1 2009-04-20T21:49:10Z http://www.greenforall.org/blog/pathways-out-of-poverty-training-grants-for-green-jobs-announced Today the Department of Labor announced the award recipients for $150 million in Pathways Out of Poverty grants to train disadvantaged populations for green jobs. This investment, part of the Recovery Act, will allow people who have been left out of our economy to enter the workforce and secure jobs in the new clean-energy economy. No publisher Ladan Sobhani Federal Resource Community of Practice recovery Recovery Map 2010-01-20T23:38:09Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/100-million-in-grants-for-green-jobs-training-released-by-dept.-of-labor Yesterday, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced nearly $100 million in grants to train workers for clean-energy jobs. This critical investment, which Green For All and our supporters advocated for, was authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. No publisher ada recovery 2010-01-07T19:11:06Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/growing-green-jobs-boom This week marks a major milestone for our movement. Cities and states are beginning to report how many jobs have been created locally through funding from President Obama's Recovery Act. And today, the government released the first job creation numbers, covering just 1.5% of total Recovery investments. With just this first small glimpse, and less than 50% of the Recovery money distributed, we are already seeing amazing victories for green jobs from across the country. No publisher Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins recovery 2009-10-15T22:17:14Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/american-youthworks-wins-green-jobs-training-grant Congratulations to our friends at American Youthworks for winning a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to build a green jobs training center! Earlier this year, this Austin-based job-training organization shared their best practices for obtaining Recovery money in an interview and participated in a conference call hosted by Green for All. No publisher yvonne recovery 2009-09-11T21:10:56Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/recovery-alert-green-jobs-in-navajo-nation In this edition you'll learn about an exciting green jobs victory in Indian Country on Tuesday, an update on prevailing wages for weatherization projects, details about state-level implementation of two key Recovery programs, $3 billion in direct payments for renewable energy projects, and a webcast next Wednesday on economic analysis for renewable energy. No publisher josh recovery 2009-07-24T19:17:11Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/recovery-alert-good-news What a great week to be part of the green jobs movement. First, $500 million in hard-fought Green Job Training grant money is now available. Second, the federal Department of Energy has distributed more than $1 billion in Weatherization Assistance Program and State Energy Program funds since our last Alert. Third, we strengthened the House version of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) to include opportunity and access to jobs for low income communities and communities of color. And fourth - some local news from where I live - the first class of 40 trainees just graduated from the Oakland Green Jobs Corps program! No publisher josh recovery 2009-07-15T17:16:44Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/dol-grant-guidelines Today, the Department of Labor (DOL) released grant guidelines for $500 million in green jobs training, including $150 million for "Pathways out of Poverty" grants! This is the money Green For All and our supporters fought hard to have included in the Recovery Act that Congress passed in February. No publisher ada recovery 2009-06-26T00:14:47Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/recovery-alert-green-collar-block-grants We just put the finishing touches on a new Pamphlet on the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program. This resource will help you to ensure that EECBG funds are used to create green-collar jobs for people that need them the most by the June 25th deadline. In this edition, you'll also find: an announcement about our new Frequently Asked Questions for the Recovery Package, an update about prevailing wage labor standards for weatherization funding, resources on green job training grants, and more. No publisher josh recovery 2009-06-11T20:42:09Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/call-tomorrow-conference-call-on-green-job-training-and-recovery No publisher ada recovery 2009-10-27T17:40:55Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/a-new-recovery-faq We've just produced a brand new Frequently Asked Questions resource for the Recovery Package. For three months we've been digging hard for answers to questions about how to leverage stimulus funds for green jobs. This FAQ is designed to answer some of those common questions. No publisher josh recovery 2009-06-04T19:07:29Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/recovery-alert-100-days-of-recovery Yesterday marked 100 days since President Obama signed the Recovery Package into law. According to the White House, over $100 billion of the $787 billion has now been obligated and 150,000 jobs have been created. The money is going fast. In this edition, we've got some tools and information to help you: Prepare for green job training grant money, leverage EECBG funds to launch a city-scale retrofit program, stir up a local debate about green-collar jobs with a letter to the editor, and more. It's time to create green-collar solutions. No publisher josh recovery 2009-06-11T20:40:58Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/letter-to-the-editors-help-build-the-drum-beat-for-a-green-recovery-for-all.. Check out the letter that Jim Schaefer, of Otis, Oregon, just got published in his local paper The Statesman Journal: "The foundation for a better economy is in the hands of our mayor and local officials. They are now responsible for implementing millions of dollars in green investments from President Obama's recovery package..." No publisher ada recovery 2009-05-20T21:51:06Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/new-report-people-of-color-hurt-worst-by-the-recession-1 Foreclosure. Unemployment. Loss of health care. These hardships have been fixtures in American life during this recession. But some of us have been hit harder than others, and it falls along racial lines, says a new report. The Applied Research Center just released Race and Recession: How Inequity Rigged the Economy and How to Change the Rules. No publisher ada Community of Practice recovery 2009-05-20T18:35:30Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/what-a-recovery-fueled-201cgreen-impact-zone201d-can-do-for-a-troubled-city Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, has been dividing rich and poor, black and white, jobless and employed in this city since the days of Jim Crow when it was a legal line of segregation. Today the neighborhoods east of Troost Avenue still bear the marks of disenfranchisement: abandoned homes, an unemployment rate that’s as high as 53 percent in some census tracts and gun violence that takes many young lives. But tomorrow, this area could be a center of green jobs, retrofitted energy-efficient homes, a green transportation system and hopeful residents if Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver’s plans for using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding come to full fruition. No publisher Barbara Grady recovery 2009-05-19T23:55:05Z Blog Entry http://www.greenforall.org/blog/recovery-alert-are-you-ready-for-some-good-news We've got good news to report this week. In this edition we'll tell you about our new Letter to the Editor tool, a big stimulus victory in Washington State, the first local official to sign the Green Recovery For All Commitment, a model pathways out of poverty program in Denver poised for funding, an important deadline update, more than a dozen new resources, and a Retrofit America's Cities conference call next Tuesday. Enjoy. No publisher josh recovery 2009-05-13T23:19:03Z Blog Entry