Austin job group gets grant for green training

Sep 4, 2009

Austin American-Statesman

American Youthworks, an Austin-based job-training organization, won a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The grant will allow the nonprofit to build a training center for workers entering the "green-collar" work force, which includes job sectors such as renewable energy.

The center "will provide workers with the skills needed to compete for higher-skilled, higher-wage 'green' industry job opportunities," said Sandra Walters, an executive for the department's Economic Development Administration.

American Youthworks assists young adults and teens through educational and job-training efforts.