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The environmental workforce and job training grants will help transform economically disadvantaged communities across the U.S.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected 26 organizations to receive a total of $5.1 million in grants
for environmental job training programs across the country.
Funded
through the agency’s Environmental Workforce Development and Job
Training Program, these grants help to create a skilled workforce in
communities where EPA brownfields assessment and cleanup activities are
taking place.
Of
the programs selected for funding this year, 31% plan to serve
residents of communities experiencing persistent poverty and nearly 70%
plan to serve veterans.
All 26 selected programs plan to serve
communities with census tracts designated as federal Opportunity Zones
– an economically-distressed community where new investments, under
certain conditions, may be eligible for preferential tax treatment.
“EPA’s
Job Training Program has helped to transform communities that need it
the most. By investing in a local workforce to conduct environmental
cleanup activities, we can help revitalize traditionally low-income
neighborhoods,” said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.
“Seventy five
percent of those trained under our program have gone on to find full
time jobs with good wages. I am proud to announce that EPA is building
on these successes by providing additional grants to help lift
communities out of poverty, employ returning veterans, and build a
skilled environmental workforce for the future.”
Since
the program began in 1998, more than 288 grants have been awarded. More
than 18,000 individuals have completed training, and of those, more than
13,679 individuals have been placed in full-time employment earning an
average starting wage of over $14 an hour.
Rather than filling local
jobs with contractors from distant cities, EPA created its environmental
job training program to offer residents of communities historically
affected by environmental pollution, economic disinvestment, and brownfields an opportunity to gain the skills and certifications needed to secure local environmental work in their communities.
This year’s grantees are:
- Alaska Forum Inc. (Anchorage, AK)
- Auberle (McKeesport, PA)
- City of New Bedford (New Bedford, MA)
- City of Pittsburg (Pittsburg, CA)
- City of Richmond (Richmond, CA)
- City of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
- City of Springfield (Springfield, MO)
- Civic Works Inc. (Baltimore, MA)
- Colorado Department of Local Affairs (Denver, CO)
- Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa Inc. (Tampa, FL)
- Cypress Mandela Training Center Inc. (Oakland, CA)
- Earth Conservancy (Ashley, PA)
- El Centro (Kansas City, KS)
- Full Employment Council (Kansas City, MO)
- Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps. (Milwaukee, WI)
- Hunters Point Family (San Francisco, CA)
- Lorain County Board of Commissioners (Elyria, OH)
- Lost Angeles Conservations Corps (Los Angeles, CA)
- OAI Inc. (Chicago, IL)
- PathStone Corporation (Rochester, NY)
- Southern University at Shreveport (Shreveport, LA)
- St. Louis Community College (Bridgeton, MI)
- The Fortune Society Inc. (Long Island City, NY)
- Training to Work an Industry Niche (Charlotte, NC)
- Workforce Inc. dba RecycleForce (Indianapolis, IN)
- Zender Environmental Health and Research Group (Anchorage, AK)
EPA’s
Job Training Program awards competitive grants to nonprofit
organizations and other eligible entities to recruit, train, and place
unemployed and underemployed individuals.
Individuals completing these
training programs have often overcome a variety of barriers to
employment.
Many are from low-income neighborhoods. The training
programs also serves minorities, tribal members, transitioning veterans,
dislocated workers who have lost their jobs as a result of
manufacturing plant closures, and other individuals who may face
barriers to employment.
from BusinessFacilities.com