Sustainable Environments Spotlight

Grantee Spotlight: Industrial Areas Foundation Northwest

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The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) Northwest is a group of community organizing alliances in Washington and Oregon, including the Sound Alliance, the Spokane Alliance, and the Metropolitan Alliance for Common Good. It is an affiliate of the IAF network, the oldest and largest network of community based organizing in the nation, with affiliated organizations in more than 50 cities. In the Northwest, it has brought together an uncommon mix of constituencies-more than 100 synagogues, churches, education associations, building trades unions, immigrant and neighborhood organizations, and recovery and disability organizations-and has discovered that green jobs ties them together in a deep and meaningful way.

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Grantee Spotlight: The Environmental Law and Policy Center

ELPC’s Executive Director Howard Learner (right) was joined by John Horsley of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (left) and John J. Risch III of the United Transportation Union at a National Press Club briefing on the importance of President Obama’s high-speed rail initiative.
The Environmental Law & Policy Center is the Midwest’s leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization. ELPC develops and leads strategic advocacy campaigns to improve environmental quality and protect our natural heritage.nt, education and community leaders working together to establish the US as a leader in advanced manufacturing-collaborating to rediscover, reinvent, and rebuild manufacturing in the knowledge economy.

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Grantee Spotlight: The Center For Working Families

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Since 2006, The Center for Working Families ("The Center") has been working with community-based organizations, elected officials, policy advocates, and environmental organizations to develop and implement ambitious policy reform agendas. With a focus on creating income, health, and job equality, The Center works with local allies to build the momentum and capacity necessary to reform policies which disproportionately affect low income families in New York state.

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Grantee Spotlight: 1Sky

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1Sky has built a coalition of 600 allied organizations to educate and mobilize the public about the importance of comprehensive climate policy, working to strengthen the nation's economic competitiveness through green jobs, and accelerating the transition off of fossil fuels by integrating local greening and energy initiatives into the national dialogue.

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