The Apollo Alliance has amassed a useful repository of information on implementing the clean energy, good jobs provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Check back frequently for updates.

Deadlines and Announcements | Web Links |For Job Seekers |Federal Guidance |Implementation Resources | What’s in ARRA | Where The Money Goes | Transparency and Accountability | Where The Green-Collar Jobs Are | Core Principles | Best Practices

Deadlines and Announcements Top

10/30/09 - First round of Recovery Act reporting data released.

12/14/09 - Deadline to submit application for Retrofit Ramp-up EECBG Competitive Grants program.

Web Links Top

State Recovery Act websites.

Recovery.gov.

Federal website with access to all Recovery Act grants.

Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Recovery act website that has links to information about Weatherization Assistance Program, State Energy Program, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants, and other energy-related funds.

Department of Labor Recovery Act website.

Weatherization Assistance Program Recovery Act website.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Neighborhood Stabilization Stimulus Program website.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Capital Improvements Recovery Act website.

The Department of Community Services and Development (CSD) blog has key dates and important information related to local Recovery Act planning and implementation. CSD administers the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), the Community Services Block Grant program (CSBG), and the Lead Hazard Control Program (Lead).

Progressive States Network stimulus implementation information clearinghouse Web site.

Green For All Green Recovery For All Resource site.

ICLEI Economic Recovery Funding Updates and resource site.

Sierra Club’s State Economic Recovery Project.

The Workforce Alliance Recovery Act website.

Brookings Institution Metropolitan Recovery and Spending Priorities.

The Department of Energy’s Tribal Energy Program has information about financial opportunities for renewable energy development and energy efficiency deployment on tribal lands.

Brownfields Program Activities Under the Recovery Act

ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability information about the National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program

CLEI Local Governments for Sustainability information about the Clean Cities Program

Department of Energy website about the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Department of Energy website about the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program

Department of Energy website about the Industrial Technologies Program, a program to improve industrial energy efficiency

Department of Energy website about the Vehicle Technologies Program

Department of Transportation Recovery Act website

For Job Seekers Top

How You Can Find a Green-Collar Job, by the Apollo Alliance.

Federal Guidance Top

White House Initial Implementation Guidance Memorandum, February 18, 2009.

White House Updated Implementing Guidance, April 3, 2009.

Implementing Guidance for Reporting Requirements on the Use of ARRA Funds, June 22, 2009.

List of Programs Subject to Recipient Reporting.

Recipient Reporting Data Model from the Office of Management and Budget.

Guidance and application form for $3 billion in Treasury and Energy Departments direct payment opportunities for renewable energy projects, to be disbursed by October 1, 2009.

Green Job Training Competitive Grants, initial guidelines, from the Department of Labor.

Department of Labor Green Job Training Grants, summary descriptions: Pathway Out of Poverty, Energy Training Partnerships, Green Capacity Building, State Energy Sector Partnerships, and State Labor Market Analysis.

Training and Employment Guidance Letter to state workforce agencies, from the Department of Labor.

Department of Labor letter provides further guidance on prevailing wage application to weatherization projects.

Davis-Bacon Wage Determinations for the newly created Residential Weatherization Construction from the Department of Energy. These wage determinations will be issued state by state and can be found on this page.

EPA Brownfield Job Training Assistance Grants - Requests for Applications.

State Energy Program Guidelines from the Department of Energy.

Department of Energy Smart Grid Demonstration and Investment Program funding announcement.

Community Services Block Grant information site: Grants are disbursed through formulas, and can be used for job training and placement services, among other things.

Energy efficiency and conservation block grants Funding Opportunity Guidance Document from Department of Energy.

Weatherization Assistance Program formula grant guidance.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Neighborhood Stabilization Program Guidance.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Capital Fund formula grants guidance and FAQ’s.

Qualified Energy Conservation Bond guidance from the Internal Revenue Service.

Clean Renewable Energy Bond guidance from the Internal Revenue Service.

Qualified School Construction Bond guidance the Internal Revenue Service.

Q&A regarding prevailing wage requirements for the EECBG program.

Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Grants guidance from the Department of Energy.

Retrofit Ramp-Up Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants guidance from the Department of Energy

Implementation Resources Top

Description of Industry or Sector Partnership Grant Program for Communities Impacted by Trade, from the Workforce Alliance.

Quarterly Report to the President on Progress Implementing ARRA, from the Office of the Vice President.

Your local Community Action Agency (CAA) manages and administers the Weatherization Assistance Program. Find your local CAA.

Memo on How States and Cities Can Prepare for Stimulus, from the Apollo Alliance.

Recovery Bill Talking Points from the Apollo Alliance.

Bringing the Recovery Home, a guide to Recovery Act funds for job training, energy efficiency, and green infrastructure from Policy Link and Green For All.

Green For All Recovery Act Toolkit.

Recovery FAQ’s, from Green for All.

Understanding the State Energy Program, from Green for All.

ARRA Guide for Small Businesses and Nonprofits, by Green for All

Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants Toolkit from the Sierra Club.

Understanding the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, by Green for All.

Understanding the Weatherization Assistance Program, by Green for All.

Chicago’s Guide to Completing an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy, by City of Chicago Department of Environment.

An Engine of Opportunity: A new report by PolicyLink and the Transportation Equity Network provides a roadmap to stimulus transportation funds.

Rapid Deployment Energy Efficiency Toolkit (2009), by the Environmental Protection Agency. The toolkit provides detailed program design and implementation guides for 5 to 10 broadly applicable energy efficiency programs.

Show Me the Money: The Law of the Stimulus Package, by Stoel Rives, LLP.

Metro Potential, an evaluation of the opportunities and challenges presented by the Recovery Act from the perspective of cities by the Brookings Institution.

Implementing ARRA: Innovations in Design in Metro America, by the Brookings Institution.

Enhancing Recovery Act Training Provisions through State Workforce Investment Act Modifications, by the Workforce Alliance.

Summary and recommendations for implementing Recovery Act training funds, by the Economic Policy Institute.

Summary of Department of Labor green job training grant opportunities, by the Workforce Alliance.

Understanding the Competitive Grants for Green Job Training, by Green For All.

Federal Resources to Enhance and Sustain Green Jobs Training, by Green For All.

Council of State Governments analysis of state progress in implementing the Recovery Act.

Massachusetts Stimulus Task Force report with specific action steps and performance measurements.

New York State Recovery Act Handbook: Implementation recommendations, specific action steps, and performance measurements.

States’ progress on spending transportation dollars.

Recommendations for targeted hiring that is attached to stimulus dollars by National Employment Law Project.

Report on Trade Adjustment Assistance as expanded by the Recovery Act, with a focus on opportunities for Ohio by Policy Matters Ohio.

Bonds and the Recovery Act: A Guide to Municipal Bonds Enabled Under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, by Good Jobs New York

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Comparison between Apollo Economic Recovery Act and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as signed into law.

Comparison between House and Senate versions and Apollo Economic Recovery Act.

Apollo Alliance summary of the spending provisions.

Summary of the tax provisions.

Notes summarizing transparency, local content, and job quality standards.

Where The Money Goes Top

Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants state-by-state allocation from the Department of Energy.

Details about Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants, from the US Conference of Mayors.

Housing and Urban Development Department’s state-by-state analysis of stimulus spending.

State-by-state breakdown of Department of Labor workforce development formula grants, disbursed March 27, 2009.

State-by-state tables of where stimulus dollars will go, based on existing allocation formulas, from the Northeast Midwest Institute:

• Clean Water State Revolving Fund
• Highway Funding
• State Energy Programs
• Public Transit
• Weatherization Assistance Program

Democratic Policy Committee’s state-by-state analysis of where the money goes.

Interactive map detailing the Nationwide Allocation of Recovery Funding, with details on administering agencies and funding formulas, from the Center for American Progress.

State-by-state breakdown of stimulus transportation funding, by AASHTO.

Summary of stimulus investments in energy efficiency, with a breakdown of spending in northeast states, by Environment Northeast.

Details about stimulus investments in solar, from the Solar Energy Industry Association.

ICF analysis of stimulus spending for brownfield recovery.

Transparency and Accountability Top

First Quarterly Report on the Impact of ARRA, by the White House Council of Economic Advisors.

Second Quarterly Report on the Impact of ARRA, by the White House Council of Economic Advisors.

Ensuring Equitable Recovery: A Guide to Stimulus Jobs Data, released on October 15, 2009.

Propublica Web site tracking states’ Recovery Act spending.

StimulusWatch Web site – independent Web site tracking stimulus projects in each state.

States for a Transparent and Accountable Recovery (STAR Coalition) is website that tracks stimulus spending and provides resources for ensuring transparency and accountability, by Good Jobs First and the Coalition for an Accountable Recovery.

Show Us the Stimulus, an evaluation of state government Recovery Act websites, by Good Jobs First.

The States and Stimulus: Are they Using it to Create Jobs and 21st Century Transportation? by Smart Growth America.

Building Opportunity: A Call for Florida to Assure Transparency, Accountability, and Equity in the Use of Economic Recovery Funds, by the Miami Workers Center and Kirwan Institute.

Correcting Five Myths about the Stimulus Bill, by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s spreadsheet calculator and user’s guide estimates national employment impacts of stimulus efficiency investments.

Map detailing General Services Administration energy efficiency upgrade projects for federal buildings, by GreenBiz.com.

Report on the impact of ARRA on women and people of color, by New York University Wagner Center.

Where The Green-Collar Jobs Are Top

Memo analyzing Green-Collar Jobs Created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, from the Apollo Alliance.

Democratic Policy Committee’s state-by-state analysis of job creation.

White House analysis of the jobs impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by state, and by congressional district.

Core Principles For Spending Recovery Act Dollars Top

Statement of principles by the Apollo Alliance.

Memo discussing the Federal Economic Stimulus Package and New York City, including a set of principles for implementation, from the New York City Apollo Alliance. New York City Apollo Alliance Web page for core principles.

Statement of principles by the California Green Stimulus Coalition.

AFL-CIO Center For Green Jobs standards.

Discussion of Top 20 Priorities for spending stimulus transportation infrastructure funds, by Smart Growth America.

Implementing The Stimulus: Best Practices Top

100 Days, 100 Projects – Report on Recovery Act Implementation from the White House.

California Green Stimulus Coalition principles and policy recommendations for stimulus implementation.

California Green Stimulus Coalition is focusing primarily on the State Energy Program, administered by the California Energy Commission.  This program will have $226 million over the stimulus period, to be spent mostly on energy efficiency, with job creation as a priority; the low-income Weatherization Assistance Program, administered by Community Services and Development agency (CSD), will have $185 million, to be spent on weatherization (insulation, air sealing, other measures to reduce utility bills) for low-income homeowners and residents.

The California Business, Transportation, and Housing agency has requested that multi-stakeholder collaborate to develop regional plans for economic recovery with specific actions that will ensure the federal stimulus funds will achieve the highest economic impact.

The Chicago Recovery Partnership has been created to align the city’s collective Recovery Act resources, help local organizations access stimulus funds, invest quickly for maximum benefit, and leverage stimulus funds to achieve goals set out by the Chicago climate Action Plan.

Florida takes advantage of stimulus dollars to make single largest investment in renewable energy in the state’s history.

Kansas City identified a ’stimulus-concentration’ zone in the city maximize impact of the stimulus money. Their goal is to weatherize every single home, train local residents, develop a smart grid project, increase public transit service, replace a bridge, and implement sustainable land use and a sustainable sewer project.

Michigan plans to use $15 million in State Energy Program (SEP) funds to help small manufacturers retool to produce clean energy component parts and materials.  The Department of Energy, Labor, and Economic Growth (DELEG) will provide grants and loans to manufacturers with less than 500 employees who wish to diversify into renewable technologies.

The Natural Resources Defense Council analyzed how states in the Midwest plan to spend their share of the $3.1 billion allocated to the SEP in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The document contains a definition of the SEP program, an analysis of how states (IL, IA, MI, MN, OH, WI) plan to spend the money, policy recommendations to improve the plans, and a summary of each plan.

Nevada Green Jobs and Weatherization bill.

Oakland, California’s City Council approved $2.26 million of Community Development Block Grant Funds for a revolving loan fund to do weatherization on low and moderate income homes. The Oakland Apollo Alliance is working to insure this program will benefit local minority owned contractors and unions who hire from local green-collar job training programs.  We are also advocating for a significant set aside for community out reach and engagement.

Ohio is using Recovery Act Workforce Investment Act dollars to support four new training initiatives: Urban Youth Works, Recovery Conservation Corps, Constructing Futures, and Ohio Learning Accounts/Project HIRE. Combined, these initiatives will expand employment opportunities for urban and rural youth and traditionally underserved adults, broaden inclusion in apprenticeship programs across the state and provide an enhanced job matching program to link employers and job seekers to training funds and tax credits in targeted regional industries.

The Portland, Oregon Clean Energy Fund is a city-county-utility-private partnership that will use Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) funds to develop a comprehensive energy efficiency program. Portland will receive a total of $5.5 million from EECBG; $2.5 million will go toward a revolving loan program to retrofit 500 single-family, owner-occupied homes; $14 million will go for retrofits and on-site renewables on city buildings; $800,000 will go toward transportation alternatives; and the rest of the money will be used for energy projects. The revolving loan program will provide long-term, low-interest financing using EECBG funds, public benefits funds, and private capital. Most loans will be secured on the title of the home. There is state legislation in the works to create similar programs in other cities.

Richmond, California’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant includes plans to retrofit low-income homes to prevent foreclosures, and links with Neighborhood Stabilization funds to create a revolving loan program to support retrofits long-term.  The proposal also includes a requirement to hire from Richmond BUILD, a city pre-apprenticeship program targeting individuals with barriers to employment.

Washington State signed SB 5649 into law on May 7, 2009. The law aggregates all federal Recovery Act dollars directed towards energy efficiency (WAP, EECBG, HUD public housing money, appliance rebates, etc.) and attaches labor standards. The law creates an Energy Efficiency Improvement Program that will be implemented by the Washington State University Extension Energy Program, which will then contract with community agencies to conduct outreach, perform energy audits, and install efficiency upgrades. The law includes a requirement that all contractors employ workers from training and apprentice programs, hire locally, and provide opportunities to veterans and low-income individuals. For low-income weatherization programs, the law prioritizes those which provide career pathways out of poverty and into the construction trades. The law also includes a farm energy efficiency section.