Share the Dream for a Centre for Green Change

Our vision is for a Centre for Green Change in the heart of Jane and Finch, where residents and youth concerned about the protection of the environment are engaged and mobilizing others as they increase their knowledge and skills and initiate individual and collective actions toward building a healthy, safe, prosperous and environmentally friendly neighbourhood. If you support this great idea, VOTE NOW!!! http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf3710.

Through our Pathways to Green Jobs Program, the Centre for Green Change will create hundreds of green jobs for residents and youth in this priority neighbourhood and help to transform thousands of lives. We will mobilize all of the resources at our disposal to achieve our vision, and explicitly work to expand the number of long-term, high-quality green jobs for local residents, with particular focus on youth. While not the exclusive focus, the program will develop green jobs in construction, manufacturing, installation, maintenance and agriculture.

“People don’t need to be geniuses or even extraordinarily talented to develop their work. The requirements are initiative and resourcefulness - qualities abundant in the human race when they aren’t discouraged or suppressed.” Jacobs, Jane. The Nature of Economies. New York: Modern Library, 2000

Equally important will be the change in the community spirit as members work together to make change! There is a great opportunity in front of us as a community. Let’s not make the daily reality of crime, violence and poverty in our community distract us from moving forward. What we need is a sense of hope. We must be able to count on our ability to create and to innovate, using our hands and creative minds while protecting our natural resources.

There are growing opportunities for employment within the Green Economy. Let’s work together to make this happen! And remember, a vote for the Green Change Project is a vote for the Jane Finch Centre for Change. When you are finished here. Please go and vote for this idea too http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf3204. Remember to come back and follow our progress – VOTE Every Day!