The San Francisco Bay Area's Art in Action will open a new Green Youth Media Arts & Job Training Center in Oakland, Calif., August 1, 2009. The Center will offer year-round training in media arts, eco-literacy, soft skills and personal healing for under-resourced youth and young adults, and provide training for youth leaders to grow their business ventures and prepare for jobs in the green economy. For the last six months, Art in Action has participated in Green for All's Business Incubation Program, receiving mentoring through a business development process. Having built a for-profit component into their long-term strategic plan, they anticipate being fully self-sufficient by 2011 with at least 50% of the operating budget coming from diverse earned-income revenue streams. Green For All is a national organization dedicated to "building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty." [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham