Solar Richmond Partnership

We’ve selected Solar Richmond as our green-collar jobs partner for the extended Bay Area 1BOG campaign through January 31, 2010. Together with Solar Richmond and groSolar, we are offering members who install solar a unique opportunity to support green-collar jobs.

For every tax-deductible donation a 1BOG participant makes (of $112) to Solar Richmond, both 1BOG and groSolar will match it, donating $336 total. Trainees receive two days of hands-on training from groSolar’s expert installers.

Interested in donating or hearing more? Click here to email or call Brad Smith, our San Francisco 1BOG specialist.

(Photos below of Solar Richmond graduates.)

About Solar Richmond

With her passionate commitment to promote solar energy and green job creation, Solar Richmond’s Founder and Executive Director, Michele McGeoy, founded Solar Richmond in 2006. Solar Richmond ushers low-income local residents into the green economy by providing them with hands-on solar installation training and job placement services in partnership with RichmondBuild and Rising Sun Energy. Visited by Senator Barbara Boxer last summer and lauded by New York Times Bestselling Author, Van Jones, Solar Richmond is a pioneer and leader in the green-collar jobs national movement.

Visit Solar Richmond at: solarrichmond.org