This provides a brief overview of the flagship summer program Academia Quinto-Sol/ Fifth Sun Academy for Young Visionaries

1. North Bay Institute of Green Technology—Youth Green Jobs
Fifth-Sun AcademySonoma for Visionary Youth
Sometimes Organization Name: North Bay Institute of Green Technology-Youth
It falls upon Green Jobs Sonoma (NBIGT-YGJS)
A P.O. Box 15183 Santa Rosa, CA 95402
Generation
To be Contact Name: Evelina Molina
Great... Contact Phone: (707) 236-7335
Contact E-mail: youthgreenjobs@gmail.com
Academia
“Quinto-Sol” Executive Directors: Cris Oseguera & Evelina Molina
Executive Director Name: Cris Oseguera
is dedicated
Executive Director Phone: (707) 849-1499 (cell)
to
Executive Director E-mail: cris_oseguera@yahoo.com
Empowering
& Web site: www.nbigt.org
Educating Program/Project Title: NBIGT/Youth Green Jobs – Academia Quinto-
A Sol 8-week Summer Green Vocational/Trade Prep Program
Great
Generation 1. Fiscal Sponsor: Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County – 501(c)
of (3) Application has been submitted, EIN Tax Payer Identification Number
Visionary issued by State Tax Board & Articles of Incorporation (California State)
Youth have been filed as a Non-Profit Corporation.
that will lead the
way to 2. The Mission of NBIGT: is to provide training, job placement, and
Global retention of low-income, unemployed, or underemployed persons for a
Environmental career in green collar jobs, to include technologies having to do with
Sustainability sustainability in the environment, energy conservation, and green (non-
and
carbon based) energy production.
Economic
Equity .
Youth Green Jobs Sonoma (YGJS) is a program of NBIGT committed
to promoting energy education and awareness, resource conservation,
and employment readiness for underserved, in-crisis and at-risk youth for
the green collar jobs industry.
3. Conditions in the Community / Statement of Need:
In September 2007, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors created the
Innovation Council to look ahead at the opportunities and challenges
facing our regional economy. In late 2008, the Innovation Council issued
its report, stating the following general findings on education, Hispanic
youth and workforce development:
“Everything we do to the Earth we do to our Bodies. Everything we do to
our Bodies we do to the Earth.” – Chamalu Bolivian Shaman

2. Sonoma County has an acute problem regarding the number of Hispanic students
who do not complete high school; the education, business, and Hispanic
communities, working alone, have not been able to resolve the problem.
• In a recent survey, 66% of major Sonoma County businesses had difficulty
finding qualified job applicants.
• The current education system does not fully equip students with necessary
real world job skills.
• Availability of career technical education courses offered in public schools is
declining. Currently, only 31% of California high school students possess
some limited form of career training by graduation.
These conditions pose great challenges to the community-at-large because Hispanics
are its fastest growing sector. Moody’s Economy.com baseline forecast projects that
growth in the Hispanic population will be the main driver behind the county’s growth.
Hispanics accounted for about 22% of the county’s population in 2006; this share is
expected to rise to just shy of 40% by 2030. By 2050, Hispanics will be in the majority.
Success of the Sonoma County workforce of the near future will depend on the active
productive participation of today’s Hispanic youth.
However, as the County of Sonoma’s Strategic Plan points out, “our Hispanic youth
population is disproportionately affected by challenges including economic pressure
(including poverty), gang activity, and low educational achievement (including high
rates of school dropout.” Those who are attending school suffer from poor attendance,
disciplinary and or academic problems, making graduation improbable. Others are
court-involved, and regularly incarcerated. Hispanic youth graduation rate is 64%
compared to the overall Sonoma County graduation rate of 78%. We believe that the
emerging countywide effort to address climate change and oil dependence will
simultaneously create well-paid green-collar jobs for underserved youth and their
families, thereby creating safer streets and healthier communities. NBIGT-YGJS is
committed to prepare a skilled workforce to accomplish our collective goals.
Proposed Program: Youth Green Jobs Sonoma is a green trade and or vocational
“learn by doing” flagship program of NBIGT for under-served, in crisis/at-risk youth and
young adults. Our Academia Quinto-Sol/Fifth Sun Academy for Young Visionaries,
starting in summer of 2009, is an 8-week summer bridge program for 40-60 youth ages
16-18 years old. The YGJS curriculum is designed to integrate those core subjects with real
life tools and utilize hands-on participation in solutions and ideas. Many professionals,
organizations and businesses are volunteering to provide exposure and training to the
program participants, opening avenues to possible future employment. NBIGT-Youth Green
Jobs curriculum will include:
• Life-skills training, and a series of comprehensive math and reading skills
assessments to determine the students academic needs to move them towards a
GED (high school diploma equivalent), thereby enabling them to pursue careers in
green industries or enroll in a community college.
• Job readiness training, hands-on core classes focused on Energy Efficiency
Technology, Alternative Energy Applications, and Environmental Awareness.
• Instruction on how to install efficiency hardware and renewable technology in
residences in low-income neighborhoods.

3. • Training and work, youth will participate in their community as Energy Educators to
help people conserve energy and learn of new alternative energy resources such as
solar & wind power.
• Workforce Readiness Pre-Certification; mentoring, tutoring and counseling.
Co-founder/Co-executive Director: Cris Oseguera, has been working with individuals and
families in Santa Rosa for about 30 years. His love for aiding others began at about age 6
with basic Spanish to English and English to Spanish translations. Despite the many
challenges he and his family endured as immigrants, he was able to complete High School,
transfer to SRJC and then to Cal State Chico, where he obtained his BA in Psychology. The
many job positions he has held with various non-profits include: Youth Liaison, Family and
Youth Advocate, Case Manager, and Transitioning Age Youth Advocate respectively. He is
the founder of “Xinachtli” a proven successful young man’s cultural identity &
empowerment gang prevention program.
Co-founder/Co-Executive Director: Evelina Molina, has over a decade of experience as a
leader, visionary and community organizer specializing in innovative workforce advocacy
and development. She is a 2007 Fellow of the Sonoma County Leadership Institute for
Ecology and the Economy, and a recipient of the prestigious San Francisco Foundations’
Koshland Civic Unity Award which recognizes, “Bay Area grassroots risk-takers –those
social innovators of bold spirit who accept the most stubborn neighborhood problems as a
personal challenge and who work collaboratively to overcome them. Evelina is also the
founder of A.L.M.A. of Windsor (Alliance of Mothers Active for Justice); Board member of
both The Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County and the Santa Rosa Community
Media Center.
Geographic Area of Service: Youth Green Jobs Sonoma will serve initially the low-income
neighborhoods of Santa Rosa. However, the success of our program will enable us to
leverage more resources so that we can expand the model countywide in Sept 2009.
Sometimes it falls on a Generation to be Great...
Cris Oseguera
Co-Executive Director
Evelina Molina
Co-Executive Director
Dedicated to Empowering and Educating “A Great Generation” of Visionary Youth.