On June 17th, the Roundtable general body will convene to celebrate our accomplishments and launch the next phase of our work. It was a year ago that the Roundtable was launched and since that time, 170 stakeholders have worked together to create a Roadmap for green collar job workforce development for our City.

Held from 9am-12pm at SEIU Local 32BJ, 101 Avenue of the Americas, the convening will be a chance for Roundtable participants to hear the top recommendations from our working groups and develop a strategy to ensure their implementation.

Fundamentally important to our success is your insight, ideas, and suggestions. In order to best gather broad based input on recommendations we have organized breakout sessions to delve deeper into targeted recommendations drawn from the findings of the working groups. The five breakout topics are:

• How to coordinate workforce development with existing sustainability efforts, like PlaNYC, to ensure that there is a properly trained workforce ready to fill the jobs that would be created through city, state or federal initiatives.
• How to foster new green businesses locally that would create high-wage jobs through innovative initiatives, such as a local sourcing policy or policies to help develop a cleantech sector.
• How to incorporate green collar training into current workforce development programs to prepare and train new workers and transition incumbent workers into new occupations.
• How to support and expand community-based green jobs training and transitional employment to overcome persistent barriers to employment and ensure that communities are prepared to take full advantage of the economic opportunities of the green economy.
• How to create green industry marketing tools and business development programs to foster a more sustainable private sector that will provide long-term career opportunities for workers.

This is an exciting time for green collar jobs, the Roundtable, and New York City.  To join us for this event, please RSVP below.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to interested parties.  If you have any questions, please contact Mijin Cha at mijin@urbanagenda.org.

I look forward to seeing you on June 17th.

In solidarity,
Joanne Derwin
Executive Director, Urban Agenda

Online Registration is now closed. Please feel free to register at the event.