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Pittsburgh's Coordinated Weatherization Campaign: Helping Homeowners and Generating Jobs

A report on the lessons learned from Pittsburgh's Coordinated Weatherization Campaign

by CWC

This report on Pittsburgh's Coordinated Weatherization Campaign (CWC) reviews the program's keys to success in:

  • Delivering home retrofits
  • Building a job creation, training, and recruitment strategy, particularly focused on minority hiring through the use of minority contractors
  • Fostering grassroots community engagement in a local green economy
  • Integrating contributions from multiple partners into one weatherization program

The creation of CWC was inspired by the Pittsburgh Foundation and was funded largely by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in 2009.

Listen to a recording of a December 2011 learning call about CWC, conducted jointly by Green For All and the Efficiency Cities Network.

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