What's the Green Workforce?

According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), this type of job:

  • Increases efficient consumption of energy and raw materials
  • Limits greenhouse gas emissions
  • Minimizes waste and contamination
  • Protects and restores ecosystems
  • Contributes to adaptation to climate change

Goal

A local economy that can foresee, withstand, adapt to, and recover from adversity.

Key Projects

  • Provide assistance to local businesses in meeting state mandates, such as the ban on plastic bags and the bending ban on Styrofoam containers.
    • Status:  Complete 
  • Explore the development, including a regional approach, to creating a green business program.
    • Status:  Complete 

How we will know we are on track to succeed: 

Number of businesses enrolled in the green business program.

Status:  In Progress 

Current Grant Opportunities

Business Initiation Grant

The purpose of Englewood’s Business Initiation Grant is to provide qualifying new business startups with a “leg up” at the most critical time for a business. Learn More About the Grant Here

Business Acceleration Grant

The Business Acceleration Grant supports existing businesses and provides funding assistance that allows for the expansion or improved operation of qualified Englewood businesses. Learn More About the Grant Here