Grant Program Job Opportunities

To support a community-based brownfields reclamation project.

To educate low- and moderate-income individuals in the Worcester area about the implications of welfare reform in Massachusetts, and to train them to hold public officials accountable for the effects these policies have.

To hire additional staff to extend an office skills training program to reach long-term unemployed; and to help underwrite scholarships for the working poor who no longer have access to state subsidies.

To hire staff to assist the 30 members of the small-scale food producers network to find cost-effective ways to meet expanding facilities needs in several rural counties in the Finger Lakes reigon of New York.

To provide a merit award.

To support the Community Entrepreneurs Program, a training and peer support program intended to help former welfare recipients start their own businesses.

To work on implementation of two recently enacted laws that could have significant economic development impact: the Brownfields bill and an insurance industry community investment initiative.

To fund the expansion and further development of an innovative approach to delivering training and capital to community development corporations and their microenterprise clients.

To support the First Step Housing Initiative.

To increase marketing opportunities for wood harvested through low-impact forestry, and to expand the constituency interested in this environmentally sensitive approach to logging.