Creating Green Jobs for Low-Income Individuals, Webinar

Posted by on March 25, 2013

Stronger Than Ever: Creating Green Jobs for Low-Income Individuals. Join us for a Webinar on March 28th at 2:00 pm Eastern. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/274747960

Join us for a thought provoking conversation with nonprofit leaders that are creating meaningful employment for low income individuals in the Green Economy. This webinar is the first in series of webinars hosted by the Academy for Green MicroEnterprise Development and Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE), an award winning CDFI.

Guest Speakers:

Adrienne Farrar Houël is President and CEO of The Greater Bridgeport Community Enterprises, Inc., a nonprofit community development corporation that creates new green businesses and jobs to employ disadvantaged area residents. GBCE enterprises exemplify the “triple bottom line” of environmental sustainability, family economic self-sufficiency and neighborhood development.  GBCE, which has created two green nonprofit businesses, is creating a Green Business Hub that will provide the market research that identifies opportunities for new nonprofit green businesses.

Terry McDonald is Executive Director of St. Vincent de Paul of Lane County OR.  His organization has created non-profit businesses to employ disadvantaged individuals and to provide revenues for the charitable goals of SVDP.  Many of these businesses are based on “waste stream diversion” activities such as recycling glass into decorative objects, mattress recycling, pet beds made from recycled mattress components, and freon and oil recycling, among many other things.

This webinar is funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Program for Investments in Microentrepreneurs (PRIME).

Title: Creating Green Jobs for Low-Income Individuals

Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013

Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EDT

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.