Transcript GREEN: Energy Efficiency, Equity and Jobs Promoting a Green Economy for All In Tennessee Why WOW?       Involved in the writing of the Green Jobs Act of 2007 Hosted.

GREEN: Energy
Efficiency,
Equity and Jobs
Promoting
a Green Economy for All
In Tennessee
Why WOW?
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Involved in the writing of the Green Jobs Act
of 2007
Hosted Generating Real Economic Equity
Now (GREEN) Institute (Ms. Foundation for
Women)
Authored numerous papers and fact sheets
on topic of women and green jobs
Acting as national technical assistance
partner for sites selected as part of Jobs for
the Future’s Pathways out of Poverty project
(U.S. Dept of Labor grant)
Working on green jobs guide for Women’s
Bureau; co-host of audio conference series
held in advance of release
Offer GREEN Space newsletter and website
clearinghouse of resources at wowonline.org
Why Women?
Top 10 Occupations Employing Women (2008 data)
2/3 of all working women are clustered
in only 21 of 500 job categories
Why Green?
 According
to U.S. DoL: green jobs are now
defined as either:
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Jobs in businesses that produce goods or
provide services that benefit the
environment or conserve natural resources.
Jobs in which workers’ duties involve
making their establishment’s production
processes more environmentally friendly or
use fewer natural resources.
What’s News in Tennessee?
From the outside…
PRIVATE SECTOR
Hemlock Semiconductor Corp. and its parent
company, Dow Corning, will locate a polycrystalline
silicon manufacturing plant in Clarksville.
The companies announced an investment of $1.2
billion to $2.5 billion in a plant that will produce a
primary component used in the manufacture of
solar panels and other energy equipment. Between
500 and 900 people will be employed at the facility
within five to seven years…
Tennessee could add 45,000 new “green” jobs with a $1.9 billion
investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy production, a new
report from the state’s labor department says. “Growing Green: The
Potential for Green Job Growth in Tennessee” was prepared by the
Research and Statistics Unit of the Tennessee Department of Labor and
Workforce Development’s Employment Security Division and released to
the Governor’s Task Force on Energy Policy.
Read more: Report: Tenn. could add 45,000 green jobs - Nashville Business
Journal (January 2009)
Private, public and education
…spending federal stimulus money to start the
Tennessee Solar Institute at the University of
Tennessee-Knoxville and Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. It will focus on basic science and
industry partnerships to improve the affordability
and efficiency of solar products. The state also is
building the West Tennessee Solar Farm at the
Haywood County industrial mega-site. One of the
largest such installations in the Southeast, it will serve
as a demonstration tool for educational, research
and economic-development purposes.
Tennessee landed its third major solar energy business
investment in a year with officials announcing Thursday
that St. Louis-based Confluence Solar would build a
$200 million plant near Knoxville, creating 250 new jobs.
(The City Paper, Nashville, January 2010)
Public Sector
April 23, 2010 - The Metropolitan
Development and Housing Agency unveils
solar installation at Parthenon Towers, a first
for community-owned housing in
Tennessee. This solar installation will make
MDHA the Nashville Electric Service's
largest solar energy generator in Davidson
County.
The Mayor's Green Ribbon Committee on Environmental
Sustainability was created to assure that Nashville continues to be
a livable city with clean air, clean water, open spaces,
transportation infrastructure and an energy use profile necessary
to provide a prosperous community for current and future
generations. (April, 2009)
http://www.nashville.gov/mayor/green_ribbon/index.asp
Plans for 2011?
The Tennessee Green Jobs Act, SB 3120, HB 3654, aimed at
creating green jobs using federal funding in the state’s
counties with the highest unemployment rates, was
considered by legislature. The primary sponsors of the Act
were Sen. Andy Berke and Representatives Mike Stewart and
Brenda Gilmore. (No action after April, 2010)
The program will be funded with $1.4 million
of a $2.9 million energy training partnership
the Bioworks Foundation received from the
Green Jobs Training Program through the
U.S. Department of Labor earlier this year.
Southwest will use some of the funds to
purchase equipment that will be used in
classes…will include courses on alternative
energy such as solar and wind power.
Memphis Bioworks Foundation is partnering with
Southwest Tennessee Community College to create a
green training program that will train local students for
green jobs.(Memphis Business Journal, July 2010)
The solar hot water installation features 300
solar collectors and produces and stores
nearly 14,000 gallons of hot water a day for
domestic use. Funding for the $1.88 million
solar farm was provided through the U.S.
Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency
and Conservation Block Grant program.
A new solar farm will soon enable Tennessee’s Knox County officials to harvest
sunshine to meet the hot water demands at the county’s 1,036-bed detention
facility. Officials anticipate that the new solar thermal system, one of the
nation’s largest for domestic hot water according to FLS Energy – the solar
company with which Trane worked on the project – will save $60,000 a year in
natural gas expenses and reduce CO2 emissions by 174 tons annually. (July,
2010 – Solar Thermal Magazine)
http://www.solarthermalmagazine.com/2010/07/13/tennessee-jail-houseswitches-to-solar-thermal-energy-to-save-money-on-natural-gas/
October 2010: The group
held a kickoff meeting in
Nashville last month and will
become an official chapter
of the National Solar Energy
Association.
As solar expands its footprint in Tennessee, a new industry group is
organizing to make sure the renewable technology continues on a growth
curve in the state.
Known as the Tennessee Solar Energy Industries Association, or TenneSEIA,
the group has 22 member commitments, ranging from large
manufacturers like Sharp and Hemlock Semiconductor to local installers.
http://www.eteda.org/news/show/330
Tennessee Department of
Labor Conducts Green Jobs
Survey (Results, Spring 2011)
The Department of Labor and Workforce Development was awarded the
$765,000 Tennessee Recovery Act Labor Market Information Improvement Grant
to collect and disseminate data on the state’s growing green economy.
The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s Labor
Market Information Director Joe Cummings stresses the importance for
businesses to complete the brief questionnaire. “For this information to be
reliable, we need as many employers to participate as possible. Data obtained
from the survey will assist workforce policy makers in determining appropriate
training for the provision of a skilled workforce to support Tennessee’s expanding
green businesses.” (TN.GOV, http://news.tennesseeanytime.org/node/5438,
June, 2010)
Survey Form Options:
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Administrative Support, Waste Management and
Remediation
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Construction
Management of Companies
Manufacturing
Other Services
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Public Administration
Transportation
Utilities
Wholesale and Retail Trade
Where are the jobs for Tennessee?
Short and Long-term Projections (page 34)
http://www.tn.gov/laborwfd/Publications/EmploymentSecurity/AnnualWorkforceReport2010.pdf\
“The largest industry sectors in Tennessee are education
and health services at about 600 thousand and trade,
transportation, and utilities at about 570 thousand.”
“Health care and social assistance as well as arts,
entertainment, and recreation are expected to increase
strongly. Additionally, accommodation, and food services;
educational services; other services; professional,
scientific, and technical services; and agriculture, forestry,
fishing, and hunting are expected to increase
significantly.”
“The detailed industry with the highest expected growth is
transportation equipment manufacturing at 6.0 percent
(Table 12, page 40). Ambulatory health care services,
support activities for transportation, and waste
management and remediation services are expected to
grow at 4.2, 4.0, and 3.9 percent per year respectively.”
 Community-
based training
programs
 Targeting
populations for
training
 Targeting
populations for
hiring
 Targeting
entrepreneurs?
Will everyone be
seeing the ‘green’?
Insuring low-income and
under-represented populations
have full access to the
opportunities of a new greener
economy.
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COWS and the City
of Milwaukee are
working with a host
of others to retrofit
building stock. This
project allows
property owners
and renters to
implement energy
efficiency measures
with immediate
savings and no
upfront costs.
Uses public money
and private capital
for the work. Costs
are repaid via
charges on utility
bills.
Milwaukee
Energy Efficiency
(Me2)Program
Elissa Berger
Me2 Coordinator
[email protected]
 Electric
customers can
install solar
photovoltaic
systems and sell
all the electricity
that they
produce directly
to the area
utility.
Gainesville’s Solar
Feed-In Tariff
Program
Harry Kegelmann
Advanced Solar Technologies
Ast-solar.com
www.gru.com
FROM THEIR WEBISTE:
Solar Richmond is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization founded in 2006 in
Richmond, California. Our mission is to
catalyze transformative change the
deepens the connection between
people, place, and planet.
As a social enterprise, we accomplish this
mission by providing solar installation
training to Richmond residents and to
youth in Richmond, Berkeley and
Oakland through the East Bay Green Jobs
Corps. We offer transitional employment
and staffing services in the solar industry
with the aim of connecting our graduates
with family-supporting green-collar career
jobs. For home, business and nonprofit
building owners we guide you through
the solar process and help you use your
consumer power to ensure that
installation companies use local greencollar labor from Solar Richmond’s pool of
graduate installers.
Our goal is to create a more inclusive job
market that creates more opportunities
for low-income and underemployed
local residents. We work to foster
healthier, safer and more sustainable
communities, breaking down barriers of
race and class as we participate in the
green economy.
Solar Richmond
http://www.solarrichmond.net/
Michele McGeoy
256 24th Street
Richmond, CA 94804
510-253-2222
From their website:
Women In Non Traditional
Employment Roles, Inc. (WINTER) is
a non-profit economic
development agency and a
national leader in diversity
workforce development and
education. WINTER is the only nontraditional employment
organization for women and youth
serving Southern California since
1996.
The WINTERGreen Program is a
social enterprise component of
Women In Non Traditional
Employment Roles, a non-profit
organization dedicated to building
a pipeline of diverse, well-qualified
women for career opportunities in
the environmental remediation
and green retrofit
fields. WINTERGreen provides
certified training and employment
to women to green their
communities as they learn to
perform valuable work and
improve their work skills.
WINTER
http://www.winterwomen.org/
Alexandra Torres Galancid
3655 South Grand Avenue, Suite 210
Los Angeles, CA 90007
[email protected]
Tel. 213-749-3970
FRESH ENERGY
(from VWW webiste)
FRESH ENERGY is a social enterprise
that seeks to train and employ
women in the fields of construction,
efficiency and renewable energy.
Vermont Works for Women is
performing this work in partnership
and as a subcontractor to J.A.
Morrissey (JAM), a commercial
construction company founded and
operated by Jeanne A. Morrissey.
In 2008, VWW approached JAM to be
our partner in working with All Earth
Renewables (formerly known as Earth
Turbines). Initially, FRESH ENERGY will
operate as a subcontractor to JAM,
deriving its business primarily or fully
through contracts established in
concert with All Earth Renewables
and Burlington's Northgate affordable
housing community.
Participants will be cross-trained to
perform weatherization work and
install solar trackers and will perform
both jobs throughout the program
(though some participants may well
gravitate to one or the other as they
gain experience).
Vermont Works
for Women
http://www.nnetw.org/
Tiffany Bluemle
32A Malletts Bay Ave.
Winooski, VT 05404
phone: 802.655.8900
fax: 802.655.8922
toll free: 800.639.1472
Working with the U.S.
Department of Laabor
Women’s Bureau, ACC
set out to increase the
enrollment of women
in its courses (both
continuing education
and college credit)
related to energy
efficiency, renewable
energy, and green
building. ACC offered
two sections of its
entry-level solar
photovoltaic installer
course taught by
women instructors, for
women.
Austin
Community
College
http://www.austincc.edu/green/
Shelley Attix
Coordinator, ACC Women In Green
Jobs Campaign
Highland Business Center - HBC 401.10
[email protected]
Voice: (512) 223.7517
Fax: (512) 223.7030
The program worked
with 20-25 women in
the Atlanta area
who were interested
in own their own
green business. The
program was
scheduled to
conclude at the end
of September, 2010.
This 36-week
program covered
energy efficiency
and business plan
writing among other
topics.
Women Going
Green
http://www.3dmeinc.com/womeng
oingreen.html
Danny McGinnis
Rosalind McGinnis
Fairburn, GA
678-379-8138
What are other
Governments Doing?
Governments can:
 Enact
laws, ordinances
 Use administrative powers
 Enforce executive orders
 Use the bully pulpit
The Federal Government
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President Obama ordered the plans last
October in Executive Order 13514
(sustainability plans for federal agencies)
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The order required agencies to reduce direct
greenhouse gas pollution 28 percent over 2008
levels by 2020 and to cut indirect emissions,
such as those released in commuting and
landfill waste generated by agencies, by 13
percent during the same period
Green Jobs Act of 2007
American Recovery & Reinvestment Act
Women WIN Act (expands WANTO)
Did you know?
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Office of Civil Rights’ On-the-Job-Training and
Supportive Services
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/aaa/gtup.htm
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Competitive grants to state highway departments.
Purpose: increase employment of “minorities,
women and disadvantaged individuals” in
transportation jobs.
Includes recruitment, skills training, job placement,
child care, outreach, transportation to work sites,
pre-employment assessment, mediation and
counseling.
“Pipeline” programs may include transportationrelated internships, cooperative education, postsecondary support activities.
½ of 1% of all Federal DoT dollars MAY be used by
governors to train under-represented populations
What else?
 Strengthen
the Office of Federal Contract
Compliance Programs (OFFCP) at U.S.
DoL
 Regulations could give preference to
contractors who –
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Maximize the hiring of disadvantaged
groups, including “individuals for whom
construction is nontraditional employment”
State of Hawaii
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state is driving the adoption of
electric and alternate vehicles through a
variety of mandates and grants.
 State and county agencies buying new
vehicles are required to give priority to
electric vehicles, alternative-fuel vehicles
and hybrids.
 This started in February of 2010.
State of Massachusetts
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H4253 was passed into law in late 2009.
It authorizes grants to the Massachusetts
technology transfer center to fund
activities that facilitate the transfer of
technology from the commonwealth’s
research institutions to the
commonwealth’s clean energy industries.
State of New Mexico
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Governor Bill Richardson signed an executive order
that outlines the state’s course to building a
comprehensive green economy in January of 2010.
The Green Jobs Cabinet identified five immediate
goals for the state to realize its full green
economy potential, including:
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To become a leader in renewable energy export.
To become the center of the North American solar
industry. This includes everything from research and
development to manufacturing to the installation of solar
elements in our buildings.
To lead the nation in Green Grid innovation.
To continue being a leader in green building and energy
efficiency.
To have an educational system that prepares New
Mexico students for jobs in green technologies.
State of New York
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Green Jobs / Green New York Act
authorized a program to direct funding to
communities, homes, small businesses
and not-for-profits to develop a workforce
with a goal of conducting one million
energy efficient building retrofits over five
years (started 2010).
State of Ohio
 Mapping
Green
Career Pathways:
Job Training
Infrastructure and
Opportunities in
Ohio (January
2010)
While this diagram is from Ohio,
the Center for Wisconsin Strategy
(COWS) also has a green careers
pathways model.
The Ohio report offers several
sound policy recommendations
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Invest in solid, credible data collection and
dissemination so information about existing greencollar jobs and growth potential can be easily
accessed
Better integrate environmental, economic, and
workforce goals at the federal, state and local
levels so new training programs are driven by
actual job growth
Aware public grants and contracts for green
projects that create linkages to training
opportunities; prioritize partnerships between
training providers, unions, employers, WIBs
Address barriers to access and retention in
construction and manufacturing trades
And more
2010 Legislative Action
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According to the NCSL, 29 states introduced
legislation relating to the creation of green
jobs in 2010.
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Twenty-nine states/territories introduced
legislation or have pending legislation:
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut,
District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho,
Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North
Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia,
Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
State of Colorado
 H.B.
1333 – “Green Jobs Colorado Training
Pilot Program” Enacted (6/11/10)
 Summary: Creates the Green Jobs
Colorado Training Program to ensure that
future workforce supply can meet the
increasing demand for green job skills in a
“new energy economy.”
State of Connecticut
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H.B. 5164 – “Green Jobs” Enacted (6/8/10)
Summary: Provides for new academic degree and
certification programs related to the green jobs
industry. Further, provides for courses of instruction
and initiatives to align green job programs with
employer needs.
H.B. 5435 – “Small Business Pre-seed Financing”
Enacted (5/6/10)
Summary: Provides loan forgiveness or
reimbursement for state students with majors in the
“green technology business” (cap is $10,000 residents
with a bachelor’s degree and $5,000 for residents
with an associate’s degree). “Green technology
business” is defined as an eligible business with not
less than 25% of its employment positions being
positions in which green technology is employed or
developed.
State of Virginia
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H.B. 803 – “Green Jobs Tax Credit” Enacted (4/13/10) (Ch. 727)
Summary: Allows an income tax credit for the creation of green
jobs for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2010;
provides that each taxpayer is allowed a credit for up to a
specified number of new green jobs and may qualify for the
Enterprise Zone Grant Program if the job is locate in an
enterprise zone.
S.B. 623 – “Income Tax” Enacted (4/13/10) (Ch. 722)
Summary: Allows a $500 income tax credit for the creation of
green jobs for taxable years beginning on and after January 1,
2010.
S.B. 1357 Enacted 4/2010 (Ch. 730)
Summary: Expands the Clean Fuel Vehicle Job Creation Tax
Credit to include jobs created associated with the production
of cellulosic biofuels, the conversion of vehicles from traditional
fuels to cellulosic biofuels, and the manufacture of components
for vehicles that utilize cellulosic biofuels.
State of Washington
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H.B. 2420 – “Working Land Base” Enacted
(3/24/10) (Ch. 187)
Summary: Requires the Employment Security
Department to conduct an analysis of
occupations in the forest products industry;
require the Department of Commerce and
the Workforce Training and Education
Coordinating Board to identify barriers to the
growth of green jobs in the traditional
industries such as the forest products industry.
Mayors Meet
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a two day meeting in Washington,
DC the week of September 20th, 50
mayors met to discuss national policies
including: Transportation, Infrastructure,
Community Development Block Grants
(CDBG), Energy Efficiency and
Conservation Block Grants (EECBG),
green job creation and small business.
 From Tennessee:
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Ron Littlefield, Chattanooga, TN
Minnesota Mayors
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Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and Saint Paul Mayor Chris
Coleman are teaming up to support and attract
environmentally-sound manufacturing to the area with
an initiative called Thinc.Green MSP. This is being done
in cooperation with the Blue Green Alliance.
Thinc.GreenMSP will immediately begin implementing
five initiatives to drive demand for locally-produced
green products and services, as well as for the highlyskilled workers who make those products and deliver
those services. The Initiatives are:
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Buy Green: Local Government Green Purchasing Partnership
Green Town: Incentives for the Built Environment
Re:Purpose: Match Existing Industrial Zones with Green Assets
Early-Stage Financing: Finance Program through Local
Investment Bank
Thinc.Leader: Recognition Program for Local Businesses
Texas Mayors…
The head of the Houston mayor's office of
sustainability launched The Green Office
Challenge in September 2010.
 This is a year-long initiative aimed at property
owners and tenants in six of Houston's
management districts. The program provides
workshops and other resources to make
workplaces greener — including a low-interest
energy-efficient loan program for smaller projects.
 The goal is for participants to reduce their energy
use, water use and waste while encouraging
employees to carpool and recycle. In return, those
who make the most significant strides will be
recognized publicly by the mayor's office.
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/
09/27/tidbits1.html?b=1285560000^3986941&s=indust
ry&i=green
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Other places to look…
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The Scandinavian American Economic
Development Alliance held a major Trade
Mission in August of 2010 which included
companies from Scandinavia visiting the six
state region that the Alliance serves.
The companies were in the alternative
energy, sustainability, and clean technology
industries. Scandinavia claims to be the
world's leader in these disciplines. States in
the coalition are Alabama, Arkansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and
Tennessee.
Students Mobilizing?
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The Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference
(SSREC) was started in 2004, and over the past six years it
has brought together hundreds of students from across
the South to learn organizing skills, network, and return to
their campuses motivated and ready to promote a clean
energy future.
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They most recently met in Athens, GA at the beginning of
October, 2010.
the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy is supporting
campus campaigns for clean energy, building state
networks to leverage student power beyond campus
and connecting campuses and communities that are
working on energy issues. Most of our work takes place in
Tennessee through the Tennessee Campus Program and
in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
through the Southern Energy Network
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Their website is
http://www.cleanenergy.org/index.php?/Learn-AboutCampus-Action.html
On-going challenges
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Supply vs. demand
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The ‘costs’ of going green
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Military leaders cite challenges in going green (Federal
Times, October 2010)
Federal agency reports prove progress and cite
challenges in meeting executive order (nextgov.com,
September 2010)
Financial pressures – businesses
Financial pressures -- households
Equitable access to green jobs and business
opportunities
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Training workers in ‘where are the jobs’ world
Demand for products and services
Building inclusive economy
Creating jobs and career paths that lead to economic
security
Jobs recession, cash recession
Looking forward
Green Jobs Guide for Women
A
publication of the U.S. Department of
Labor, Women’s Bureau
 A joint project of Wider Opportunities for
Women and Public Policy Associates, Inc.
 Due out later this year (2010)
 Webinars have accompanied production
– available on the Women’s Bureau
webiste  www.dol.gov/wb
WOW’s GREEN INSTITUTE
 Coming
to the Southeast
 Builds on model tested in DC with nationwide reach at end of 2009
 With thanks to the Ms. Foundation for
Women
Spring 2011
Donna Addkison
Family Economic Security
Program Director
Wider Opportunities for Women
[email protected]
(202) 464-1596