Pathways Out of Poverty-Green Jobs Training

Amount Requested: $3,060,636
Eligible Agency: Office of Economic and Workforce Development
Project: Green Skills Academy Expansion

These funds are designated for projects that provide training and placement services to provide pathways out of poverty and into employment within the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries. This grant is administered by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Why did San Francisco apply for this grant?
San Francisco would use these funds to help expand the Green Skills Academy (GSA). This expansion will include doubling the Academy’s capacity to serve an additional 296 job seekers; double the number of green sub-sectors for which the Academy provides vocational skills training and placement services, create and implement a targeted outreach strategy to recruit participants from four neighborhoods in the highest-poverty areas in the city; and design and implement an intensive and long-term job readiness training program that will help participants from targeted communities to succeed in the GSA once enrolled and ultimately find their way to economic self-sufficiency through employment in green industry.

How would this project have benefited San Francisco?
This program would help train and place roughly 600 local job seekers from the most economically depressed neighborhoods in San Francisco in skilled, green jobs annually.

Additional Information:
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Application Summary