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Alliance for Community
Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 80% of Americans
live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national network
of members have planted and cared for 14.9 million trees with help from
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| ABOUT WEBCASTS |
The
Third Thursday Webcast Series is a monthly
webcast held at the lunch hour. The goal is to create informal
trainings for local urban and community forestry
organizations.
The trainings leverage local successes by amplifying to a larger
audience the model organizations' methods, materials, and
approaches.
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Putting the 'Green' Back Into Green Jobs
Part II: Seeding Career Opportunities
November
19, 2009
1:00-
2:00pm EST
The green industry is a $40 billion market and
increasing quickly. In many sectors of the green industry, including
tree care, there is a job for every trained worker available. Some
communities have caught on and are offering workforce training to
expose adults and high school graduates to these career opportunities.
Particularly, the partnership between urban youth and trees diversifies
the green industry's work force and makes green areas more accessible
to urban communities.
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SESSION TOPICS
Webcast attendees will learn:
* Assembling a business plan.
* Getting space donated or negotiating a lease.
* Cost of operations and finding underwriters.
* Meeting community needs through business ventures.
* Cross sector partnerships that forge the process along.
* Social enterprise activity.
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NURSERY OPERATIONS
Mary
Washignton, Parks & People Foundation (Baltimore, MD)
Parks & People Foundation has a wholesale tree nursery business
specializing in native tree species that thrive in urban environments
in the mid-Atlantic. The operation is particularly appealing because it
provides: jobs, educational opportunities, community garden space, and
cleaner air and water.
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GREEN CAREERS MENTORING
Nancy Wolf, Magnolia Tree Earth
Center (Bronx, NY)
New York operates
two programs that teach school-age children about green jobs. The ideas
are to make students aware of job possibilities- such as solar energy
and green architecture- and help kids continue with a green education
or move them into the green workforce.
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NEIGHBORWOODS NETWORK EXCHANGE
Extended Learning- On the Ground
There is so much more that can be learned in a week than in an hour,
and on the ground as opposed to on a webcast. So here is your chance!
Join the webcast to learn more about the NeighborWoods Network Exchange and how you can spend
a week shadowing another ACT
member.
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