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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

 

Milwaukee Job Training Goes Green

Anyone looking for a green-collar Milwaukee job will soon find it easier to receive training.

The U.S. Department of Labor recently gave the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board a $98,364 "green capacity building" grant to use on training opportunities for workers in the solar and weatherization fields.

The grant will specifically be used to expand Milwaukee Builds, a program designed to train low-income and unemployed people. Don Sykes, chief executive of the Workforce Investment Board, said the program will help lift people out of poverty.

"The model will put people back to work and provide the necessary basic skills as a first step in their career path," he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The Department of Labor issued green training grants to 62 agencies throughout the country, with an emphasis on under-served communities, through funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The ARRA has provided funding for several other green jobs initiatives throughout Milwaukee.

The Midwest Renewable Energy Association received a $3.2 million grant to train technical college instructors and others how to install solar panels. The initiative is meant to teach those instructors how to train more solar installers as the demand for green energy sources increases.

The Wind Energy Education Collaborative - a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Milwaukee Area Technical College - received a $330,184 grant to help train workers for jobs in the wind-power industry.

That project is meant to increase the number of people in southeastern Wisconsin able to find jobs in the wind industry, as well as to serve as a training model for other colleges and universities throughout the country.

In addition, more students are becoming interested in green-collar careers, according to the University of Wisconsin Extension. Most recently, an online degree program in sustainable management attracted twice as many students as university officials expected, with 166 students enrolling in the program as opposed to the expected 90 students.

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