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Construction Equity Day at the State Capitol
On February 19th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oregon Trades Women, in partnership with State Senator Chip Shields, will be holding a Construction Equity Day at the State Capitol.
The focus of the event will be to provide women and minority Journey Workers, Apprentices, Pre-Apprentices, Minority Contractors and Allies an opportunity to visit the State capitol and share their concerns and meet with elected officials, to discuss the importance of equal opportunity in order to diversify the construction workforce, and learn about the state Legislature and how economic stimulus relates to green jobs and constructions.
For more information contact: connie@tradeswomen.net
Please join a Green For All call this Thursday to learn about cutting edge use of Recovery Act funds in Portland, Oregon.
National Call: Recovery Innovation in Portland
Thursday, October 22
10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern
RSVP: http://www.greenforall.org/conference-call
Featured Speakers:
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Sam Adams, Mayor of Portland, Oregon
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Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO, Green For All
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Margie Harris, Executive Director, Energy Trust of Oregon
Green For All recently teamed up with the City of Portland on a cutting-edge green jobs program, funded through the Recovery Act. Clean Energy Works Portland's Home Energy Retrofit Program will create thousands of good clean-energy jobs for low-income workers, weatherize 100,000 homes, and launch the first model of paying for home weatherization through utility bills.
CAWS is proud to have partnered with the City to craft a Community Workforce Agreement that will ensure the jobs created are quality jobs and are broadly accessible to low-income communities and communities of color.
Please join the call on Thursday to learn more about this project, and how it can become a national model for Recovery Act implementation.
Portland's Innovative Home Energy Retrofit Program
Community of Practice Learning Call
Thursday, October 22
10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern
US Toll Free: 800.875.3456
Passcode: 51503442#
Pete Savage, the Portland lead representative for the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters, has left his position. Savage told the Daily Journal of Commerce Thursday that the council’s leader, Doug Tweedy, asked him to resign. “We have one elected position, the executive secretary-treasurer,” Savage said. “He asked me to step down and I complied.”
Daily Journal of Commerce - October 19, 2009
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has given Portland $4 million to help reduce homeowners’ lead-based paint hazards. The city’s water bureau is adding another $1.4 million to the program, which the Portland Development Commission will oversee.
Portland Business Journal - October 8, 2009
Portland, Ore – On September 30, 2009, the Portland City Council signed a Community Workforce Agreement
that will lead to the creation of thousands of high-quality, family-supporting jobs for qualified,
historically underrepresented contractors and workers in the clean-energy economy. The City
and Clean Energy Works Portland stakeholders―including public, private, nonprofit,
community, and labor institutions―collaborated to create this unprecedented agreement,
establishing a set of sustainable contracting standards and community benefits.
CAWS is proud to have partnered with the City of Portland and other leading entities to craft this landmark agreement.
Download the Press Release from the City of Portland
Download the Community Workforce Agreement
Download the Portland City Council Resolution
Portland City Council Overview - October 2, 2009
Verde has a new website. This new website was funded by a grant from the NW Health Foundation’s Kaiser Permanente Community fund, and designed with probono marketing consultation from the Frause Group’s Matt Smedley and with website design services provided by TACS NPower’s Ash Shepherd.
We’re very happy to share this with you, our friends and partners, a sign of Verde’s transition from an idea to startup to a recognized participant in (and bridge between) Portland’s environmental and community development stakeholders; from a nonprofit which operates a project to a nonprofit which operates programs.
Verde's Executive Director's Announcement - October 1, 2009
On Monday, October 5th at 3 pm ET (Noon PT), Green For All will be hosting a National Briefing Call to discuss the current draft of the bill and next steps for moving a strong, equitable bill forward. The call is open to anybody who seeks to learn more about the bill and who wants to know how to get active.
We invite you join this call, and invite your supporters to as well.
RSVP here.
Email Announcement - September 30, 2009
Industry Buzz
The fight against federal project labor agreements has taken a new dimension with the entry of a new group into the local debate. The National Black Chamber of Commerce, which has no local chapter, has targeted Portland, where one such agreement is being considered. Project labor agreements set terms between owners and labor groups before construction begins. President Barack Obama signed an executive order in February encouraging their use on federal projects worth more than $25 million, reversing a Bush-administration order banning the agreements on federal projects.
Daily Journal of Commerce - October 2, 2009
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