Green Recovery For All
Are you ready for green jobs right now? The Economic Recovery Package is our best chance to create green-collar jobs for everyday people. But we have to seize the moment. Go down to City Hall and ask your Mayor and City Council to show you their plan to implementing a green recovery for all.
- A Letter to the Editor helps 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..."
- New report: People of color hurt worst by the Recession
- 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.
- Pathways out of poverty in Denver - Mile High Youth Corps poised to get Stimulus Funds
- When La’Kyla Byrd cleared trails and tended to trees in Denver’s City Park this past year as a member of Mile High Youth Corps, she also cleared a path for herself and three siblings out of the violent and drug-infested neighborhood of their childhood into college and service-oriented futures.
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3/23/09 - Deadline for states to submit initial application to DOE for Weatherization Assistance Program grants. [more]
4/1/09 - Weatherization Assistance Program funding becomes available to states. Within 60 days of April 1st, each state must complete a plan, hold a public hearing about it's plan, and submit it to DOE for approval. At that point, funds will be made available locally. [more]
4/16/09 - Deadline for Assessing the Feasibility of Renewable Energy Development and Energy Efficiency Deployment on Tribal Lands. [more]
4/17/09 - Deadline for HUD to release guidance in a Housing Notice for the Assisted Housing Stability and Energy and Green Retrofit Investment Stimulus Program ($250 million). [more]
4/20/09 - Deadline for eligible government and non-profit agencies to apply for Brownfields Job Training Grants ($5 million). [more] [Application PDF]
4/27/09 - Deadline ("unconfirmed") for diesel fleet operators to apply for Nat'l Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program Regional Grants ($156 million). [more]
4/30/09 - Deadline (possibly extended) for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Deployment in Indian Country. [more]
5/3/09 - Neighborhood Stabilization Program ($2 billion) - Deadline for HUD Secretary to establish criteria for grant competition for funds to purchase abandoned and foreclosed property for use as affordable housing. [more]
5/7/09 - Deadline for First Steps Toward Tribal Weatherization and Human Capacity Development. [more]
5/12/09 - State Energy Program - Deadline for States to submit comprehensive application to DOE for State Energy Program formula grants. [more]
5/12/09 - Weatherization Assistance Program - Deadline for States to submit comprehensive application to DOE for Weatherization Assistance Program grants. [more]
5/13/09 - Deadline to apply for Transportation Electrification funding. [more]
5/19/09 - Deadline to apply for Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative funding. [more]
5/29/09 - Deadline for Cities to apply for first round of DOE Clean Cities Program. [more]
6/25/09 - UPDATED -Deadline for States to apply to EE and Conservation Block Grants ($3.2 billion). [more]
6/25/09 - Deadline for Cities, Counties and Tribes to apply for EE and Conservation Block Grants ($3.2 billion). [more]
6/30/09 - Green Jobs Training CGP ($500 million) - Deadline for Department of Labor to issue Solicitations for Grant Awards (SGA) for the Green Jobs Training Competitive Grant Program. The SGA will provide specific requirements for use of the funds, certification, data reporting, performance measures, and other necessary information. [more]
7/17/09 - Neighborhood Stabilization Program ($2 billion) - Deadline for applications to HUD for grants to purchase abandoned and foreclosed property for use as affordable housing. [more]
