Cassie is just one hundreds of Veterans who have walked through GRID Alternatives’ training doors to continue serving their communities here at home. This year several of our offices are ramping up partnerships with Veteran service agencies, like The Mission Continues, in an effort to help them learn new skills and gain a foothold in the solar industry.

SunEdison and GRID Alternatives announced an expanded partnership through RISE, a new national initiative to build a more inclusive solar workforce and connect an industry that needs good people with communities that need good jobs.

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.

Colleen Smith has been on five volunteer trips to install solar in Nicaragua, and can't wait to return. Read her guest blog about her experience installing a solar powered drip irrigation system for a Nicaraguan farmer!

We are eternally grateful to GRID Alternatives and its staff. Families like us would never have been able to afford solar panels if not for a program like this. -- Mayuga Family

In celebration of the winter holiday, we want to share with you one of our favorite success stories of 2014, a young man struggling to support an extended family in New York City who found a career for himself in solar through GRID and our partner Green City Force.

On a cold November morning, just three days before Thanksgiving, volunteers gathered in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, NY to help install solar power on the home of Fred Cotton and Sallie Phelps.

Between the four sacred mountains of the Navajo Nation the land and sky stretch vast and wild. Here, in Bird Springs Arizona, GRID Alternatives' Tribal Program staff partnered with three Navajo communities for an inaugural installation of a 2.6kW grid-tied solar photovoltaic system.

The first in her family to graduate high school, Kaly Moore is taking her solar career by storm through GRID Alternatives’ SolarCorps program.