Limitless Vistas, Inc.

January 5, 2009
By Cassandra Stern
Apollo News Service

NEW ORLEANS - The shape of a national clean energy, good jobs training program for young people is gaining real definition here, where 800 young people are beginning full-time service as part of the Conservation Corps of Greater New Orleans, earning real money, educational stipends and preparing for careers in the new green economy while helping rebuild their hurricane and flood-damaged city from the ground up.

The school system is being rebuilt, the city is being rebuilt. The question now is how do you make sure this is an inclusive process?

"This is the one time that a city actually has the opportunity to be reborn and be better,” said Jim Gordon, program manager for Limitless Vistas, Inc., a nonprofit workforce training and development program. Limitless collaborates with the national Conservation Corps network to train at-risk, inner-city youth for work as certified environmental field technicians. “The school system is being rebuilt, the city is being rebuilt. The question now is how do you make sure this is an inclusive process?”

The New Orleans green-collar training program is an example of both the need and opportunity to train American workers for the myriad jobs that the Apollo Alliance and many labor economists anticipate in the new clean energy economy...Read more

19 more laptop computers are needed in addition to the 6 that the LTC has loaned us. They should be capable of accessing the internet and running basic office software. Donate 1 or more in reasonable working condition and you will have a significant impact on the second semester of this great program. Or donate your time to help refurbish laptops that are in less than tip-top shape. Tax credits are available.

Limitless Vistas, Inc. is a New Orleans based organization dedicated to workforce training and development. Our mission is to improve the employability of disconnected youth, to forge a career path for employment in budding green industries, and to get youth actively involved in the post-Katrina recovery effort.

Our program is a cooperative community partnership designed to train disadvantaged inner-city youth between the ages of 17 and 25 in the environmental skills that are necessary to become Environmental Field Technicians. The program includes technical training, state and federal certifications, development of employment skills, mentoring and job placement assistance.

Join the progress we've made as partners with Job1, GoodWill Industries, Americorps. Donate your companies old laptops today.