Labor's Community Agency, Inc.

John Elliott

When John Elliott found himself out of work as a construction industry executive, he turned to the green jobs training program offered through Colorado's Labor's Community Agency – a Recovery Act/departmental funding recipient – to land a new, cutting edge career. Elliott, 53, became interested in and studied energy efficiency, weatherization and energy auditing, and eventually became certified. He has since secured a job as a program director for a local nonprofit that provides weatherization and retrofitting of low-income housing. The training program, Elliott said, "played a major role because it gave me an opportunity to learn about the field and get my foot in the door" of an exciting career.