BlueGreen Alliance Foundation

In 2006, the Sierra Club and United Steelworkers formed the BlueGreen Alliance to work toward an economy in which job growth and environmental progress go hand in hand. Four major environmental organizations and ten prominent labor unions are now part of this alliance. This general support grant would allow the organization to continue helping labor and environmental organizations speak with a united voice on climate and energy policy issues, such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s policies to reduce global warming pollution from power plants and several states’ renewable energy and transportation policies.

In 2006, the Sierra Club and United Steelworkers formed BlueGreen Alliance to work on creating an economy in which job growth and environmental progress go hand-in-hand. Four major environmental organizations and ten prominent labor unions now partner within BlueGreen Alliance. This grant targets the coalition’s Jobs 21! program, a national effort to generate job growth as the nation transitions to sustainable, clean economies and energy independence. Jobs 21! is focused on demonstrating how investing in 21st century infrastructure will grow jobs and confront climate change.

The BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (BGAF) is the educational arm of the BlueGreen Alliance— ten major labor unions and four major environmental organizations representing 14 million members. BGAF’s mission and work align well with our goals to reduce global warming emissions in the United States. BGAF works to reduce global warming emissions while creating jobs by supporting important policies such as renewable energy and energy efficiency standards, clean energy financing and tax credits, and investment in clean transportation infrastructure.