{{Short description|Organization whose goal is to build a green economy}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2022}} {{Infobox organization |name = Green For All |image = |image_border = |image_size = |caption = |formation = 2007 |founders = {{Unbulleted list |Van Jones |Majora Carter }} |merged_into = Dream Corps |parent_organization = Dream Corps |affiliations = Dream Corps TECH, Dream Corps JUSTICE |location = Washington, D.C., United States |website = {{URL|https://www.thedreamcorps.org/our-programs/green-for-all/}} }}
'''Green For All''' is an organization whose stated goal is to build a green economy while simultaneously lifting citizens out of poverty. It is a DC-based group that brings unions and environmentalists together to push for anti-poverty measures and a clean-energy economy. Green For All was co-founded by Van Jones, former head of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Majora Carter former head of Sustainable South Bronx,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/nyregion/thecity/14majo.html|title=The Green Power Broker|last=Holloway|first=Marguerite|date=December 12, 2008|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=April 24, 2016}}</ref> and was officially launched in September 2007 at the Clinton Global Initiative.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://earth911.com/news/2007/09/26/green-for-all-launches-at-the-clinton-global-initiative/ |title=Green for all Launches at the Clinton Global Initiative - Earth911.com |access-date=December 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122000511/http://earth911.com/news/2007/09/26/green-for-all-launches-at-the-clinton-global-initiative/ |archive-date=January 22, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== History == Green For All was co-founded by Van Jones and Majora Carter<ref name=":0" /> after the two had become increasingly concerned with issues of poverty and crime, as well as the lack of a solid infrastructure for "green" jobs. Rather than approach each issue separately, Jones decided to combine the two in a more unified vision and business model.<ref>{{cite magazine| last = Walsh| first = Bryan| title = Bring Eco-Power to the People| magazine=Time| date= November 21, 2007| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1686811,00.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071123172220/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1686811,00.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = November 23, 2007| accessdate = March 27, 2008}}</ref> The organization launched in September 2007 at the Clinton Global Initiative, when Jones appeared to announce Green for All's commitment to securing one billion dollars by 2012 to create "green pathways out of poverty" for 250,000 people in the United States. Jones also added that the Ella Baker Center would continue to run a "Green-Collar Jobs Campaign" regionally and statewide in California.<ref>{{cite web| last = Patel| first = Ami| title = Green For All has Launched!| publisher = It's Getting Hot in Here| date = October 1, 2007| url = http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/01/green-for-all-has-launched/| access-date = September 25, 2012| archive-date = November 21, 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141121034840/http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/10/01/green-for-all-has-launched/| url-status = dead}}</ref>
A major component of the Green For All movement is job security:<ref>{{cite web| last = Friedman| first = Thomas L.| title = The Green-Collar Solution| work =New York Times | date= October 17, 2007| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/opinion/17friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin| accessdate = March 26, 2008}}</ref>
<blockquote>You can't take a building you want to weatherize, put it on a ship to China and then have them do it and send it back. So we are going to have to put people to work in this country — weatherizing millions of buildings, putting up solar panels, constructing wind farms. Those green-collar jobs can provide a pathway out of poverty for someone who has not gone to college.</blockquote>
According to a March 26, 2008, press release from United Press International (UPI), the green-collar job sector is growing in the United States, and could include more than 14 million workers by 2017. Although it is difficult to pin down what constitutes a green-collar job, the American Solar Energy Society said there are around 8.5 million U.S. jobs that involve Earth-friendly enterprises and renewable energy sources. This figure could grow by 5 million in the next 10 years according to Jerome Ringo of the Apollo Alliance.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Top News, Latest headlines, Latest News, World News & U.S News - UPI.com |url=https://www.upi.com/ |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=UPI |language=en}}</ref>
Green For All and other green-energy businesses have been receiving increased press by major publications such as the ''New York Times'',<ref>{{cite web| last = Greenhouse| first = Steven| title = Millions of Jobs of a Different Collar| work =New York Times | date= March 26, 2008| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/business/businessspecial2/26collar.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp| accessdate = March 26, 2008}}</ref> ''USA Today'',<ref>{{cite web| last = Bello| first = Marisol| title = Cities cultivate 2 types of green| work= USA Today| date= December 12, 2007| url = https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2007-12-12-green-jobs_N.htm| accessdate = March 26, 2008}}</ref> ''Business Week''<ref>{{cite web| last = Scanlon| first = Jessie| title = America's Green Policy Vacuum| work= Business Week| date= February 11, 2008| url = http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb2008/id20080211_334519.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+%2B+design_top+stories| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080220094623/http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/feb2008/id20080211_334519.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+%2B+design_top+stories| url-status = dead| archive-date = February 20, 2008| accessdate = March 26, 2008}}</ref> and ''The Nation'',<ref>{{cite web| last = Brecher| author-link = Jeremy Brecher| first = Jeremy, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith| title = How Green is Your Collar| work= The Nation| date= March 26, 2008| url = http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/brecher_et_al| accessdate = March 26, 2008}}</ref> indicating that the growth potential cited by UPI is picking up steam in the public sector as well.
In an interview on CNN on April 21, 2016, hours after the musician Prince's death, Van Jones revealed on CNN that Prince had secretly contributed to the funding of Green for All.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alternet.org/culture/how-prince-helped-millions-and-very-few-people-knew|title=How Prince Transformed People's Lives Beyond His Music |last=Rosenmann|first=Jessie|date=April 22, 2016|publisher=AlterNet}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Prince Secretly Funded Solar Tech In Oakland|url=https://fortune.com/2016/04/25/prince-solar-tech-oakland/|access-date=June 9, 2020|website=Fortune}}</ref>
In January 2020, Green for All, along with other environmental organizations, groups and individuals, urged a Boston-area transit agency to transition into electric buses and commit to only deploying electric buses by 2030.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Commons|first=Kevin Zolkiewicz / Flickr / Creative|title=Groups push Boston-area transit agency to accelerate electric bus transition|url=https://energynews.us/2020/01/07/northeast/groups-push-boston-area-transit-agency-to-accelerate-electric-bus-transition/|access-date=June 9, 2020|website=Energy News Network|date=January 7, 2020|language=en-US}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|https://www.thedreamcorps.org/our-programs/green-for-all/}}
Category:Environmental organizations based in Washington, D.C. Category:2007 establishments in the United States Category:Green politics