MACED, a Community Development Corporation (CDC) in Kentucky and member of the Jobs and Communities initiative, was featured in the January 2019 issue of Fortune Magazine. Listen as Peter Hille, MACED’s president, describes his organization’s new energy interns program, which is revitalizing the Hazard community and providing hope to residents that there is life beyond coal.
Through this innovative program, MACED is working with people who have been displaced as the coal industry has declined, retraining them for jobs in advanced energy efficiency, paying them a good wage. More importantly, the core goal is for the interns to secure employment through the organizations where they intern or to prepare them to start their own energy business.
For more information on MACED and the New Energy intern program, check out their blog.