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The state of America’s SKILLED Trades
Louisiana Green Corps was featured in a groundbreaking report on skilled trades pathways and solutions for building a better future through training and industry partnerships.
Building a construction sector partnership
Strong training is only a piece of the puzzle. Louisiana Green Corps partners with GNOF and industry sector leaders to create career pathways that will benefit the whole region.
Youth Corps Programs Build Pathways to Infrastructure Careers
From the Urban Institute: Infrastructure workers help people connect to utilities and the power grid, move about society safely, build and update structures, mitigate climate change, and more. Yet infrastructure employers, including municipal governments and private organizations, face current and anticipated labor shortages.
From the ground up
American Forests: Holton now manages a workforce development program at Louisiana Green Corps (LAGC), a nonprofit organization that connects environmental restoration with economic opportunity. The program trains young adults and adults for jobs in construction, green infrastructure and conservation. The work is both physical and public, with crews planting trees and installing green infrastructure that requires constant maintenance to ensure survival.
American Forests
Training locals, building capacity
What sets LAGC apart is who is doing the work. Rather than importing solutions, the program trains people who live in New Orleans, and experience flooding and heat firsthand, to protect the city they know best. Support from partners like American Forests, through the Catalyst Fund program, helps make this work possible by providing the flexible funding and technical support that allows LAGC to expand its workforce development programming and plant a total of 400 trees along the Lafitte Greenway, strengthening canopy where it’s needed most and preparing local residents to care for it over time.
Louisiana Green Corps Helps Young Adults Develop Careers in Construction and Green Infrastructure
URBAN INSTITUTE Report: Louisiana Green Corps Helps Young Adults Develop Careers in Construction and Green Infrastructure by Nathan Sick, Jincy Wilson, and Shayne Spaulding May 2026
“I believe the main goal for Louisiana Green Corps is to provide equal opportunity for our students in the careers of construction and green infrastructure. As far as employment … instead of our students just looking for a job, our mission is to actually help them develop a career.” —LAGC staff member
BIZ New Orleans: Greater New Orleans Foundation Grows Green Jobs
BIZ NEW ORLEANS – A local partnership between Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit transforming education and workforce systems, and the Greater New Orleans Foundation (GNOF) has significantly helped New Orleans tackle two of its most pressing challenges: flooding and economic mobility. JFF and GNOF presented these outcomes at the recent 2025 Horizons Summit: “Dare to be Brave”.
Episode Six: “Getting My Hands Dirty”
In Episode 6, “Getting My Hands Dirty” we meet Mikayla and Dwayne, two students from Louisiana (LA) Green Corps, a community training organization that equips young adults (ages 18-35) for careers that improve the health of their communities and protect the environment.
NOLA.com : Tree Planting on Lafitte Greenway
A hundred trees will be planted along the Lafitte Greenway this week as members of the Louisiana Green Corps, SOUL (Sustaining Our Urban Landscape) and the Lafitte Greenway Partnership work to boost the tree canopy in Treme-Lafitte.
‘Manifesting a great life for myself’
As the world shifts away from its reliance on the fossil fuel industry, a number of green industries, including clean energy and green infrastructure, are experiencing major growth. Some predictions even suggest jobs in green infrastructure could add millions of jobs to the U.S. economy.
Louisiana Green Corps 15th Anniversary Celebration
Has it already been 15 years? For the Louisiana GreenCorps, the milestone called for a celebratory event and on May 13, the organization did just that when it took over the Broadside to welcome Green Corps graduates, staff members, board members, donors and partners.