Our Impact
Civic Works’ Center for Sustainable Careers (CSC) has pioneered a three-part model of workforce development, social enterprise and high-road business development for building an inclusive and equitable green economy.
Our 3-Part Model
Workforce Development
CSC’s workforce development component provides participants with the hard and soft skills training to succeed in family-sustaining careers. It has five career tracks: brownfields remediation, residential energy efficiency, stormwater management and solar installation, and through partnership with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, land resource management.
Social Enterprise
CSC’s social enterprise component provides on-the-job training opportunities for each energy efficiency, solar, and stormwater student, and functions as a model for inclusive hiring and employment practices within the industry.
Job Quality Advancement
CSC’s job quality initiative helps employers raise the quality of and expand access to their entry-level positions by committing them to equitable hiring and employment standards. In exchange, CSC helps grow these businesses by marketing them as socially responsible and channeling procurement opportunities to them.
Through this comprehensive program model, CSC is making Baltimore’s economy more equitable and sustainable.
Key Outcomes
947
unemployed and underemployed
Baltimore City residents have
graduated since 2003
88%
of graduates have secured
family-sustaining employment
80%
of placed graduates retained
employment for at least one year
11
high-road companies have committed
to CSC’s job quality and workplace
equity standards
$9.3 m.
in procurement opportunities
channeled to high-road employers