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Wal-Mart supports solar job seekers
On a sunny Friday morning, five job trainees from the Center for Employment Training (CET) arrived at the home of Rosalina Torres in California’s Salinas Valley to get some practice installing solar power. They are among more than 50 CET volunteers in our Central Coast region that have collectively received over 4,000 hours of hands-on solar training with GRID since 2014.

2014: Celebrating GRID Bay Area's Year in Review

As we hit the roof running with our first solar installations of 2015, we want to pause and take a moment to celebrate our successes in 2014. Thanks to your support, we had an incredible year! Here are a few things to be excited about from 2014:

GRID Bay Area volunteers put in 13,000 hours of service. That’s some serious time, all directly benefitting low-income communities! 

More than 35 of our local volunteers were recruited for jobs in the growing solar industry thanks to their experience with GRID.

Another Successful Solarthon In the Books
November 3rd through 7th, 2014 proved to be quite the challenging week for 86 volunteers and staff that braved the fog and cool weather to complete 8 installations for GRID Alternatives’ Central Valley Solarthon 2014. The event was held at the Parksdale Subdivision of Self-Help Enterprises in Madera, California. GRID was once again fortunate to have earned the support from partners throughout the region that included