Transcript The SCA Some Facts:  Since 1957, more than 40,000 have enjoyed the experience of a lifetime through SCA.  Annually, SCA participants perform about 1

The SCA
Some Facts:
 Since 1957, more than
40,000 have enjoyed the
experience of a lifetime
through SCA.
 Annually, SCA participants perform about 1 million hours
of conservation service in national and local parks,
forests, refuge areas, schools, and communities.
Green Cities Corps
Program Summary:
Goals:
 Assists cities in the creation and
 Place trained and experienced
implementation of climate
action plans
 Members are placed with key
sectors working to implement
climate action plan
recommendations
college graduates with local
agencies looking to mitigate
climate change
 Develop and/or implement
policies and actions that address
sustainability
 Provide meaningful
opportunities to its’ corps
members
Community Programs
 Trains its members in:
1. Basic Work-Ready
Competencies
2. A Conservation Ethic
3. Links to Opportunity
 Work-Ready Competencies:
 Basic reading, listening, speaking, writing, & math skills
 Basic job seeking and retention skills
 Basic life skills
 Basic technology skills
 Basic personal and social development skills
Community Programs
Objectives:
 Natural resource conservation
 Community conservation
 Cultural conservation
Program Types:
1. Conservation Leadership Corps:
 An after-school & weekend program
2. Commuting Crew:
 6-7 week summer program
Green Jobs Roundtable
Goal:
 To establish a Green Jobs
Corps program that will build
up Pittsburgh’s workforce and
fortify its economy through
Green Sector development.
Partners:
 TRWIB, SCA, and GTech
Purpose:
 Define green jobs
 Present the current state of
Green Jobs in Pittsburgh
 Identify trends, opportunities,
and needs of stakeholders
 Create cross-sector
collaborations
 Categorize jobs and skills
needed for a green workforce
 Identify gaps between job
opportunities and potential
employees
Living Cities
Mission:
 To increase the vitality of
cities and urban
neighborhoods and improve
the lives of people who live
there
Partners:
Some Facts:
 Living Cities has invested
over $543 million in 23 cities
 Their funding has helped
build homes, stores, schools,
daycare, healthcare and jobtraining centers, and other
community assets
 Pittsburgh Green Innovators
 Pittsburgh’s Green Building Alliance
 The 3 Rivers Clean Energy Industry
Partnership
 The Labor‐Management Clearinghouse
 Bidwell Training Center
 Heritage Health Foundation Inc.
 Growth Through Energy and
Community Health (GTECH)
 Student Conservation Association (SCA)
“Let us resolve that all nations will act with seriousness
of purpose, and reduce the carbon we send into our
atmosphere. This is the moment to give our children
back their future. ”
President Barack Obama, Berlin Germany, July 24, 2008