News
Date	Description	Division	Type
03.06.13	MassCEC Announces Launch of 2013 Clean Energy Summer Internship Program Massachusetts Clean Energy Center CEO Alicia Barton today announced MassCEC will begin accepting applications for the summer session of the 2013 Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Internship Program.	Workforce Development	Announcements
02.27.13	MassCEC Announces $640,000 Available for Clean Energy Education MassCEC CEO Alicia Barton today announced the availability of $640,000 in grants to fund clean energy-centered science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs for students from kindergarten through high school.	Workforce Development	Announcements
02.23.12	MassCEC and New England Clean Energy Council Announce 2012 Clean Energy Internship Program Workforce Development program will promote summer internships at local clean energy companies for college and university students.	Workforce Development	Announcements
06.03.11	MassCEC Announces "Pathways Out of Poverty" Green Collar Job Training Grants Awards fund efforts in Pittsfield, Holyoke, Springfield, Orange, Worcester, Framingham, Dorchester, Roxbury, and Boston to expand the clean energy workforce by boosting skills of low-income workers	Workforce Development	Announcements
04.12.11	Training key to green jobs Boston Herald reporter Paul Restuccia covers green job training in the Commonwealth.	Workforce Development	Coverage
02.23.11	MassCEC and New England Clean Energy Council Announce New Clean Energy Industry Internship Program MassCEC and the NECEC Teamed Up to develop a new workforce development program that will promote summer internships at local clean energy companies for college and university students	Workforce Development	Announcements
02.03.11	MassCEC Announces "Pathways Out of Poverty" Green Collar Job Training Funds On February 3, 2011, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) announced a second round of grants available through the Pathways Out of Poverty Program, which funds green job training programs offered by clean energy companies, community-based nonpr	Workforce Development	Announcements
12.23.10	Clean energy training website to launch A new website funded in part by MassCEC will compile Massachusetts training programs in clean energy and energy efficiency.	Workforce Development	Coverage
12.05.10	Google’s Dan Reicher speaks at UMass-Boston Dan Reicher, Google’s (former) Director of Climate Change & Energy Initiatives, spoke this week at UMass-Boston’s launch of its professional education programs in clean energy and sustainability.	Workforce Development	Coverage
11.09.10	BCC opens training center for 'green' jobs The Green Center at Bristol Community College will house a MassGREEN course, funded by MassCEC.	Workforce Development	Coverage
11.01.10	Next generation of builders The Worcester Telegram and Gazette writes about how technical schools such as Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School in Upton, and Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School in Charlton are teaching students about clean energy	Workforce Development	Coverage
09.13.10	MassCEC Announces Energy Efficiency Training at Four Community Colleges Four community colleges kick off training courses for weatherization skills under the MassGREEN initiative.	Workforce Development	Announcements
08.16.10	First Clean Energy Summit Held at UMass Lowell Massachusetts Employers Collaborate to Meet Job Demand	Workforce Development	Coverage
07.20.10	Minuteman High School Nets $50,000 Grant for Energy Tech Program The grant from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center will provide equipment for a new energy technology program.	Workforce Development	Coverage
07.19.10	MassCEC Awards Second Round of Grants for Efficiency Skills Training Equipment The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) today awarded grants to organizations in Lowell, Springfield, Lawrence, Boston and Lexington to purchase demonstration and training equipment to prepare students and clients for opportunities in the clean en	Workforce Development	Announcements
05.06.10	Brooks: Weatherization aid means savings, jobs Massachusetts' Undersecretary for Housing and Community Development Tina Brooks discusses how federal investment in weatherization is translating into state savings and job creation.	Workforce Development	Articles of Interest
05.06.10	Training 'opened a whole new world' Gov. Patrick visited the JFY Networks training center, where 20 students have been taking weatherization training classes funded by a $200,000 Pathways Out of Poverty grant from MassCEC.	Workforce Development	Coverage
05.05.10	GOVERNOR PATRICK VISITS LOWELL GREEN COLLAR JOB TRAINING PROGRAM FUNDED BY As part of the Patrick-Murray Administration's Massachusetts Recovery Plan to secure the state's economic future, Governor Deval Patrick today met with participants of JYF Networks' Weatherization Technician Training Program (WTTP), made possible by a $20	Workforce Development	Coverage
04.28.10	Local program prepares individuals for careers in energy efficiency MassCEC funds a program designed for low-income, unemployed and underemployed residents of Lowell and the Merrimack Valley. Program graduates will gain a portfolio of skills and certifications that qualifies them for a career in the energy efficiency indu	Workforce Development	Coverage
01.21.10	MassCEC Announces Grants For Clean Energy Demonstration And Training Equipment The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center is offering $500,000 in grants for vocational and technical high schools, colleges and universities, regional employment boards, union and labor organizations and community-based nonprofit organizations to purchase cl	Workforce Development	Announcements
01.21.10	Mass. to invest $6M in ARRA funds to green jobs Governor Deval Patrick announced today he plans to move $6 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to green jobs training and support. The funding is part of the governor’s Massachusetts Recovery Plan.	Workforce Development	Articles of Interest
01.12.10	MASSACHUSETTS CLEAN ENERGY CENTER KICKS OFF ENERGY EFFICIENCY SKILLS TRAINING AT LOCAL COLLEGES The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (CEC) today announced the first round of weatherization workshops under the center’s newly formed MassGREEN Initiative, which provides energy efficiency workforce training to citizens and businesses throughout the Com	Workforce Development	Announcements
01.08.10	Vocational tech schools take on green initiatives The best way to get a job in the green economy may just be to go back to school — voke school, that is. Solar learning labs, on-site wind turbines and state-of-the-art energy efficiency equipment located at several of Massachusetts’ vocational-technica	Workforce Development	Coverage
11.27.09	Sour economy, hiring fears undercutting green-job dreams “Business owners have to come to terms that they will have work that sustains new employment,” said Clean Energy Center Executive Director Patrick Cloney. “We are trying to send very clear signals that Massachusetts is in clean energy for the long term an	Workforce Development	Coverage
11.20.09	Grant seekers go green Looking to put some of its community members—many of whom have seen their jobs evaporate amid a troubled economy—back to work, administrators at Berkshire Community College (BCC) in Pittsfield, Mass., have committed as much as $200,000 in grant money to e	Workforce Development	Articles of Interest