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The Minnesota GreenCorps will provide its members with opportunities to contribute to improve Minnesota’s environment, while gaining experience and learning valuable job skills.

Local governments and community organizations statewide may apply this summer to host GreenCorps members and provide day-to-day supervision to work on projects in the areas of:

- Local Government Energy Conservation

- School Waste Prevention

- Living Green Outreach

- Local Food Systems

- Urban Forestry

Those interested in becoming GreenCorps members may apply this summer, with selections to be made by mid-August 2009. GreenCorps members will work for 11 months from September 2009 through July 2010.

A stipend of $11,400 will be provided for full-time GreenCorps members, as well as an education-related award of $4,725 for those completing their term of full-time service. (This education award can be used to pay for student loans or higher education costs.) Health insurance will be offered.

Preferred qualifications are: 4 year BA/BS degree or higher in environmental-related studies, urban planning/community development, engineering, architecture, social sciences, education or communications.

Please contact greencorps@pca.state.mn.us if you would like to be notified when applications are invited for positions, probably in late June 2009. Local governments and community-based nonprofits that are interested in hosting GreenCorps members are also encouraged to contact us, and applications forms for these host sites will be available later in June.

http://www.nextstep.state.mn.us/greencorps.cfm will be updated as more information becomes available. See us also on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Minnesota-GreenCorps/7383602811