Looking for support to advance your energy and environment projects? Minnesota GreenCorps members are a great way to add capacity to your organization and grow young leaders.
About the Program: Minnesota GreenCorps is an environmentally focused AmeriCorps program coordinated by the MPCA, which places AmeriCorps members with organizations around the state to spend a year of service addressing critical environmental issues, while gaining experience and learning valuable job skills. MPCA is planning to place up to 40 full-time members with various host sites for the 2015-2016 program year. Members serve approximately 40 hours a week for 11 months beginning in mid to late September 2015 through August 2016.
Program Eligibility Eligible organizations include public entities (local, regional, state, tribal), school districts, not for profit institutions of higher education, and 501 ©(3) nonprofit organizations. Organizations may apply for Minnesota GreenCorps members who will serve on projects in the areas of:
- Air Quality (including Energy Conservation and Green Transportation)
- Waste Prevention and Recycling
- Green Infrastructure (including Local Foods, Stormwater Management, and Urban Forestry)
- Living Green Outreach
More Info: For more information on the program, including descriptions of host site projects from previous years, please visit http://www.pca.state.mn.us/mngreencorps.
How to Apply: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is accepting applications from organizations interested in participating as a host site for the 2015-2016 year of the Minnesota GreenCorps program. Applications from eligible organizations interested in hosting Minnesota GreenCorps members are due by 5:00 pm CDT on Monday, May 4, 2015. Host site application packets, including a detailed guidance document and the application, are only available by emailing your request to mngreencorps.pca@state.mn.us. Please direct all questions to this email address.
Host Site Testimonials:
“The program has been able to kick-start so many wonderful sustainability projects. I continue to be impressed with the quality of the GreenCorps members selected by the MPCA to work with various host sites.” — Erika Bailey-Johnson, Host Site Supervisor, Bemidji State University
“(Our member) has been a huge asset…(she) has strengthened our relationship with partners…it has been amazing to see how much work she has been able to accomplish in so little time.” — Anna Waugh, Host Site Supervisor, Mississippi River Fund
