ABOUT TRADE-UP In 2009, STAND-UP introduced a workforce training affiliate, Trade- Up, a pre-apprenticeship program designed to provide a pathway for recruiting, training, and placing young people from neglected minority communities into well-paying, unionized construction trades. Tapping into its parent organization’s deep and expansive grassroots networks, Trade-Up has become a leading provider of access to workforce training for high-skill union crafts such as carpentry, cement finishing, drywall, painting, glazing, and basic electrical. Trade-Up has been designated a regional workforce agency by the Atlanta Regional Commission and has won an award of distinction from the Department of Labor. Its outstanding record resulted in STAND-UP’s CEO, Deborah Scott, being declared a “White House Champion of Change” by the Obama Administration. The passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are expected to inject nearly $2 trillion into the green economy, creating an estimated 2.4 million clean
energy jobs. Recognizing the significant surge in clean energy and green infrastructure investments, Georgia STAND-UP and Trade-Up founded the Build-Up: Green Workforce Alliance to provide essential upskilling to workers in underserved communities so that they can successfully transition into the growing clean energy workforce.
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