Green Jobs Corps Alumni Profile: Elmer Galvez
Elmer Gálvez, Class of 2015, worked many Green Jobs Corps placements, including on the farm, with site crew, and with CitySeed. He
Green Jobs Corps Alumni Profile: Carlos Granda
At Common Ground, Carlos Granda (Class of 2014) worked with the Urban Resources Initiative and as an environmental educator in afterschool programs.
What I Want For Our Students: Meaningful & Successful Careers
By Tom Gaudioso Green Jobs Corps Program Manager At Common Ground, we have lots of hopes for our students: That they will
What Sticks With You? Interviews With Alumni of Common Ground’s Green Jobs Corps
By Marisa Vargas-Morawetz Yale Presidential Public Service Fellow Yale undergraduate Marisa Vargas-Morawetz spent last summer at Common Ground through a Presidential Public Service
It’s a Carrot, it’s a Cone Flower, it’s the Schoolyards Program at Common Ground!
By Suzannah Holsenbeck Schoolyards Program Manager “What is the Schoolyards Program? I never heard of it!” “Common Ground supports School Gardens? Who
Green Jobs Corps: Building a Foundation for Future Success
By Tom Gaudioso Green Jobs Corps Coordinator Brian Chantre, Ibes Nieto, Loc Nguyen (CG Alum) and Keith Riley (Site Manager)
“Does America Have Many Places Like This?” – Reflections from a Summer Yale-China Intern
by Huang-Yi, Yale China Association Intern “Does America have many places like this?” is the very first question I raised after arrival at Common
Common Ground’s West River Stewards Reclaim Their Watershed
by Libbie Katsev, Yale University Editor's Note: Libbie Katsev, a Yale undergrad and writer for The New Journal, came to Common Ground
Paving a Path to A Successful Career
By Tom Gaudioso Earlier this month, Jesus Reyes, who arrived at Common Ground as a reserved freshman, demonstrated his growth into a
67 Summer Jobs Build Greener, Healthier City
Students Help Neighbors Improve 23 Greenspaces
In summer 2014, Common Ground High School students took on 67 different paid environmental and community leadership jobs -- teaching, planting, stewarding, monitoring, building
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