“Roots of Success is the missing ingredient in the green collar jobs landscape: an accessible curriculum that helps people break the cycle of poverty by providing needed job and academic skills while empowering them to improve environmental and public health conditions in their communities.” -Van Jones, Founder of Green For All, Ella Baker Center for … Continue reading »
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Green Jobs Pioneer Van Jones Praises Roots of Success
Instructor Profile: Jameelah Muhammad
Jameelah Muhammad was one of the first instructors certified to teach Roots of Success back in 2009 and has been facilitating the curriculum in green workforce training programs across New York City ever since. She is currently the Community Program Coordinator for the Center for Sustainable Energy at Bronx Community College. In our interview with … Continue reading »
Roots of Success Graduates of Windy City Harvest Profiled in New York Times
Three graduates from Chicago Botanic Garden’s Windy City Harvest program and Roots of Success class were featured in a New York Times article that focused on the transformation they underwent from being incarcerated to becoming skilled green-collar workers. Windy City Harvest provides students with sustainable horticulture and urban agriculture certificates, and several other vocational and educational programs. … Continue reading »
Graduate Profile: Thomas and Wendy
Thomas and Wendy enrolled in the Employment Training Center and Roots of Success course at Asian Neighborhood Design (AND) — a 39-year-old community based organization located in San Francisco that is dedicated to reducing poverty and revitalizing neighborhoods in the Bay Area by building healthy communities and providing opportunities for low-income residents to become economically … Continue reading »
Pacific Coast Collaborative’s New “West Coast Action Plan on Jobs”
This week the Pacific Coast Collaborative – which brings together leaders of the five Pacific Coast jurisdictions to address their unique and shared circumstances — released an exciting new economic analysis of the clean economy, along with an unprecedented “2012 West Coast Action Plan on Jobs.” In the new report, West Coast Clean Economy: Opportunities for Investment & Accelerated … Continue reading »
“Roots of Success will change my life…”
A recent graduate of Young Community Developers’ Southeast Solar Training Program – where she completed the Roots of Success course – had high praise for the curriculum. Here is what she had to say: “I believe taking this class is going to change my life, my future and my career. I can only foresee a … Continue reading »
