Organizations Filed Purposes:
Green Tech is committed to providing career technical education, job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the green economic sector. The program serves as a critical economic development resource for people from underprivileged backgrounds. Green Tech is charged with simultaneously developing clean energy workforce skills and reversing the negative human impact on our environment.
Green Tech provided career technical education services to more than 100 youth and young adults in Sacramento. Students have been introduced to emerging career opportunities in clean energy, construction, agriculture, urban forestry, computer programming, engineering and environmental protection. Green Tech students was awarded a grant by non-profit Releaf and the Sacramento Tree Foundation to plant 148 trees in North Sacramento wit and continue to monitor their growth and care for the trees. The organization grew nearly 20 pounds of produce including sorrel lettuce, carrots, garlic, kale, blueberries, tomatoes, muscadine grapes, various herbs (sage, chives, thyme, oregano and basil). We donated the produce to Green Tech students, families and neighbors in the Oak Park community.Green Tech organized a town hall meeting to inform members of the community about the ""Green New Deal"" a congressional proposal to improve infrastructure development with clean energy and healthy environmental principles.The program successfully won an award to develop a net-zero mobility hub to provide transportation for Green Tech student to worksites and training sessions. The center will use electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel vehicles (zero toxic emission) to also provide transportation to seniors for doctors visits and low income members of the community for rides to their jobs.Partnered with CBO Mutual Assistance Network to train 20 senior high school students in career technical education. The award was provided by Dignity Health and the program was titled Passport to Adulthood.Green Tech was awarded two grants from the Governors Office of Business to provide career technical education to adults effected by the War on Drugs. We provided workforce training in pre-apprentice construction, solar technology and computer programming. Green Tech students are taught the core-element of the green economy is to improve overall health conditions through smart infrastructure development strategies, including sustainable living practices and the development of evolving workforce skills.
Classroom InstructionGreen Tech students are introduced to Career Technical Education (CTE) curriculum within the clean energy economy and career opportunities through interactive discussions, multi-media and special guest presentations. Clean energy vocabulary and terminology are introduced and examined through written and verbal assessment. In-class activities also include technical and craft projects (electric snap circuits, miniature solar car production), critical thinking exercises (debate and discussion) and career readiness exercises (Resume writing, mock interviews, job search, personal documents, filling applications). Green Tech conducts classroom instruction weekly for Green Tech classes (Solar technology, construction, computer programming and agriculture) and local high school presentations on the overall Green Tech curriculum to youth and young adults ages 12-25 from various Sacramento elementary school, middle school, high school and colleges.
Green Tech ToursGreen Tech identifies local businesses, large corporations, education institutions and community-based organizations that actively incorporate clean energy, energy efficiency principles and environmental management in their core missions. Green Tech then organizes site visits and detailed presentations to its students to connect classroom instruction with everyday workplace experiences. 35 Green Tech students have visited business establishments including and construction sites (Turner Construction company and the new State Building in downtown Sacramento with presentations about the buildings green energy efficiency features, the Sacramento anaerobic digester converting waste to methane energy, the Regional Transit Electric Light Rail Maintenance Yard, a federal science lab (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), the California electric grid and a biofuel energy plant among others. Each of these presentations provided lesson on the green economy and career consultation. (Regional Transit Light Rail Maintenance Yard, Tesla Manufacturing Plant, Google Headquarters, Turner Construction Sites, PG&E Control Center, California Independent Systems Operator).
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
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| Simeon Gant | ED/Vice Chair | 40 | $6,300 |
| Kiara Reed | Secretary | 4 | $0 |
| Avaeta Ahluwalia | Exec Brd Mbr | 4 | $0 |
| Elisia Hoffman | Exec Brd Mbr | 4 | $0 |
| Torence Powell | Exec Brd Mbr | 4 | $0 |
| Joseph Camicia | Exec Brd Mbr | 4 | $0 |
| Dr Jowel Laguerre | Treasurer | 4 | $0 |
| Joseph James | Treasurer | 4 | $0 |
| Angelo Williams Phd | Chairman | 4 | $0 |
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