GREEN TEAM

2025 APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

APPLICATIONS OPEN!

Green Team is a workforce and personal development program for 14-18 year olds. The program provides 150 hours of on-the-job training in areas of community forestry, urban agriculture, community clean-ups, and neighborhood beautification. Green Team develops community leaders and makes a direct impact on our city’s neighborhoods.

Applications for Green Team 2025 are open between March 13th - April 11th, 2025.

Contact Kristen with questions at kristen@groundworkerie.org or at 814-580-6158

Green Team 2024

In their own words:

“Groundwork is a noun that means the early work done to prepare for later work. Groundwork is work that also prepares you… so you can have the skills for a future job. Groundwork is a fun thing to do as a summer job. It helps you build up characteristics, confidence and effort.” - Malek

“We are hard workers. We can make it happen.” - Green Teamer

“My experience so far has taught me to respect nature more and shows how much people harm nature every day… it feels good to be able to fix everything going on and to give an example of what everyone should do to gather as many people as possible to make the world look better.” - Amani

I love seeing the before and after of the work that we’re doing in the community. - Elaudia