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2009 EventsDecember: Fifth Anniversary celebrationOctober 27: Launch of the NYC Green Collar Jobs RoadmapJune 17: Green Collar Jobs Roundtable General Body ConveningMarch 20: Public Conference Call on Stimulus Disbursement and New YorkFebruary 2: The New Apollo Plan, the Economic Stimulus and New York City
October 27 Launch of the Green Collar Jobs Roadmap
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Downloadable PDF Documents:NYC Green Collar Jobs Roadmap (1.1 mb) Executive Summary (211 kb) Vision Statement (126 kb) Roadmap Recommendations (139 kb) Key Facts and Figures (112 kb) The Roundtable Campaign (125 kb)
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For more information, or to endorse the Vision Statement, please visit www.urbanagenda.org/roadmap/
Urban Agenda
Urban Agenda is an action-oriented public policy, research, and advocacy organization dedicated to building a socially, economically, and environmentally just New York City. It advocates policies and programs grounded in strategic research and supported by strong coalitions of union, business, and community partners.
Urban Agenda spearheads the Green Collar Jobs Roundtable Campaign, drawing on its extensive experience leading city-wide campaigns and staffing effective coalitions. As convener of the NYC Apollo Alliance, Urban Agenda partners with business, labor, advocacy, workforce development, and environmental justice organizations. In addition, a close working relationship with the NYC Central Labor Council (CLC) enables Urban Agenda to tap the knowledge and reach of the CLC’s 400 affiliated unions representing 1.3 million workers.
Center for American Progress
The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all. We believe that Americans are bound together by a common commitment to these values and we aspire to ensure that our national policies reflect these values. We work to find progressive and pragmatic solutions to significant domestic and international problems and develop policy proposals that foster a government that is "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
Green Collar Jobs Roundtable
General Body Convening
June 17th, 9 am - 12 noon
SEIU Local 32BJ
101 Avenue of the Americas
For a report on this event, please visit the page on the Green Collar Jobs Roadmap site.
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.
For a report on this event, please visit the page on the Green Collar Jobs Roadmap site.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Public Conference Call on Stimulus Disbursement and New York
Do you care about green jobs? Is investing in a green economy and rebuilding the middle class important to you? Are you concerned about how stimulus funds will be disbursed? Join Urban Agenda, convener of the NYC Apollo Alliance, and national, state, and local experts for a conversation on how stimulus funds are to be disbursed in New York State and New York City.
On Feb. 17th, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law, authorizing billions of dollars to be spent on economic recovery. Since that time, New York Governor Paterson has created a recovery cabinet to disburse the funds. Urban Agenda and the NYC Apollo Alliance have developed a set of guiding principles for the disbursement of stimulus funds. We have also sent letters to the Governor and Mayor urging them to disburse funds according to our guiding principles and in a transparent and fair manner.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and how it affects New York State and New York City
Monday, February 2, 2009
The New Apollo Plan, the Economic Stimulus and New York City
5:30 to 7:30 PM
NYC District Council of Carpenters
395 Hudson Street, 10th floor
(between Clarkson and Houston Street)
Speakers:
Jerome Ringo, National Apollo Alliance
Mijin Cha, Urban Agenda/ NYC Apollo Alliance
Steve McInnis, NYC District Council of Carpenters
Kellie Terry-Sepulveda, the Point and NYC Environmental Justice Alliance
Adam Friedman, NY Industrial Retention Network
Moderator: Nancy Anderson, Sallan Foundation
President Obama's economic stimulus plan promises billions of dollars to slow the economic downturn and create jobs. New York City, which has been hit especially hard by the financial crisis is in urgent need of stimulus dollars to tackle a $4 billion deficit and looming budget cuts that will severely affect healthcare, education, human services and the workforce. A public forum, convened on February 2nd by the New York City Apollo Alliance, examined areas that would most benefit from stimulus funding to ensure that the City becomes more economically, and environmentally, sustainable. NYC Apollo is urging that Congress pay particular attention to the types of jobs that will be generated as we move towards a 'cleaner, greener' economy. "It's not enough to just create 'green' jobs. We need 'green-collar' jobs that pay family sustaining wages, provide benefits and offer opportunities for career advancement. Without this, we will see the emergence of an underclass of workers employed in green jobs, but unable to make their way into the middle class," said Mijin Cha, director of campaign research at Urban Agenda, convener of NYC Apollo.
The point was underscored by Jerome Ringo, president of the national Apollo Alliance, who introduced the New Apollo Program (3.2mb PDF), a bold economic investment plan that seeks to build on America's strengths – 'our infrastructure, workforce, entrepreneurship, and can-do spirit'. The plan has been gaining momentum in Washington since it was made public in September 2008 – "in fact, much of the federal stimulus package echoes what we're saying," said Ringo.
Read the full press release.
Click on the name of the participant for excerpts from the “The New Apollo Program, the Economic Stimulus and NYC” public forum held on February 2, 2009.
Jerome Ringo, National Apollo Alliance
Mijin Cha, Urban Agenda/ NYC Apollo Alliance
Steve McInnis, NYC District Council of Carpenters
Kellie Terry-Sepulveda, the Point and NYC Environmental
Justice Alliance
Adam Friedman, NY Industrial Retention Network