MELDI RECEIVES FORD FOUNDATION GRANT TO STUDY GREEN JOBS

MELDI received a grant from the Ford Foundation to study the emergence of green collar jobs. MELDI will study the creation of green jobs nationwide as well as the rise of green jobs training programs. This research fits into MELDI's long-standing interest in workforce dynamics and diversity in the environmental field. MELDI is interested in how the creation of blue-collar environmental jobs will affect the overall environmental workforce. “All projections are that the number of green jobs will expand dramatically over the coming years and it is important for us to understand what kinds of green jobs will be created. Will these be professional, skilled or unskilled jobs and who will have access to them? There is also a need to understand the extent to which people who are currently not a part of the environmental workforce will have access to training for these new jobs,” says Dorceta E. Taylor, Program Director of MELDI.