NEW: Moore Announces Grant for Worcester for Clean Energy Jobs
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Senator Michael O. Moore announced today that the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center will award $924,233 in grants that will fund six clean energy job training programs for low and moderate-income individuals across the Commonwealth, including Worcester.
As part of the Pathways out of Poverty program, the grant will fund green collar job training offered by clean energy companies, community-based nonprofit groups, educational institutions and labor organizations throughout Massachusetts.
“This grant funding will bring together unemployed and underemployed workers in the City of Worcester, with an expanding clean energy industry in the Commonwealth with a high demand for well-trained employees,” Senator Moore said. “By investing in career education programs in expanding industries, we are creating new economic opportunity in Worcester and throughout the Commonwealth.”
Four of the projects will target workers in Worcester, New Bedford, Pittsfield, Springfield, Holyoke, Chicopee, which are all designated by the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development as Gateway cities.
The Worcester program receiving funding under the initiative is:
• Worcester Youth Center – $112,000 – STEMming the Opportunity Gap (SOG) is a three-phase program partnership between the Worcester Youth Center (WYC), Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) and the Central Mass Workforce Investment Board (CMWIIB). The year-long program will engage out of school, unemployed or underemployed youth ages 16 to 24 who meet low-income requirements, introducing them to clean energy concepts and putting them on the path towards higher education in the field.
Authorized by the Act Relative to Clean Energy signed into law by Governor Patrick in November 2009, MassCEC’s Pathways out of Poverty program is designed to jumpstart training in clean energy careers for low- and moderate-income residents. Eligible projects must include on-the-job-training models or bridge-to-college programs that serve the target population and provide services and activities to address employer workforce needs and optimize opportunities for participant learning, career development and economic advancement within the clean energy industry. Projects must assure that individuals will improve their economic circumstances as a result of participation in the program.
To learn more about the programs and MassCEC, please visit, www.masscec.com.
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