Welcome to Green City Force!

We are a service corps that prepares young people from low income backgrounds for sustainable careers, while reducing green-house gas emissions, and building the green city we want to see. Join our corps. Serve your community. Break the cycle of poverty. Volunteer to paint roofs white. Learn more about green jobs and service.



GCF Winter 2012 Cohort explains their service projects and what GCF means to them.

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News/Blog Posts

  • The Green City Force Community Meeting
    By Hanna Traverse, Communications Assistant at The Corps Network Green City Academy and the Community Meeting It isn’t called Green City Force for ...

GCF Urban Farm Corps

Richard Cherry, Executive Director of Community Environmental Center

GCF has become a national model: it is demonstrating how underemployed and unemployed young adults in urban communities can acquire practical skills, so they can find jobs and establish careers in the emerging green marketplace. By supporting GCF, we are supporting the greatest resource this country has—its young people—and it is these young people... who will then help us transform this economy into a green economy.

Our Corps members say...

I truly believe that if not for Green City Force I would not have the confidence and knowledge that I have gained here. Our work makes a difference in a time that is full of non-green methods that are destroying the world we live in.
Mark Arroyo, age 23, Brooklyn
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