by admin | Dec 20, 2012 | Announcements, Program News
Last week, staff from the Otesha Project UK began teaching Roots of Success to Inmates at London’s Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Tamsin Robertson and Hanna Thomas, Otesha’s Roots of Success instructors, spent the day in Wormwood Scrubs piloting the Fundamentals...
by admin | Dec 19, 2012 | Press Coverage
Roots of Success Instructor Markese Bryant was recently profiled as part of grist.org’s ongoing series on People ‘Changing the World.’ Bryant, an Oakland, Calif. native who was thrust “from the mean streets to the green economy” after an...
by admin | Dec 18, 2012 | Program News, Testimonials
Earlier this year The Osborne Association celebrated the 30th Roots of Success graduation at their Green Career Center! The Bronx, NY based Green Career Center prepares individuals with current or previous involvement in the criminal justice system to enter and...
by admin | Nov 29, 2012 | Press Coverage
A case study describing how the Arturo Velasquez Institute, Chicago Botanic Garden, Windy City Harvest, and Cook County Sheriff’s Boot Camp are using Roots of Success to prepare youth and adults with barriers to employment for jobs in the green economy was recently...
by admin | Nov 14, 2012 | Press Coverage, Program News
A recent post in the New York Times Energy and Environment Green Blog is praising New York City’s growing green economy as an important source of jobs for undeserved communities like the South Bronx, which suffer from high unemployment, underinvestment, and...
by admin | Nov 13, 2012 | Recent Trainings/Certifications
Last month 13 new instructors were certified to teach Roots of Success during a day-long training in Huston, TX for the Lone Star College System — the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area, and the fastest-growing community college system...
by admin | Oct 17, 2012 | Press Coverage
The surprise announcement of a grant to Roots of Success by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) was highlighted in a recent article in PG&E’s news source Currents. PG&E showed support for the Full Circle Fund, a San Francisco-based organization launched...
by admin | Oct 17, 2012 | Press Coverage
In a recent blog post, Evan Elkin and Leah Morgan of the Vera Institute of Justice discuss the Ohio Green Prison Project, a pilot program that in partnership with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC), is using the Roots of Success curriculum to...
