BGS has served as a Training Provider for the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s Support Internship Program Success (SIPS) Initiative (formerly the Targeted Internship Program) for the past 5 years. This program started as a pilot project in 2021 to address the lack of diversity within MassCEC's existing summer internship program. BGS participated as a training provider in that pilot program and continued each subsequent summer ultimately taking over as the lead provide for the 2024 and 2025 sessions,

BGS’s role as a training provider is to recruit and match First Generation College students, Pell Grant recipients and residents of Environmental Justice neighborhoods with clean energy employers for summer internship opportunities. Beyond screening and matching students with internships, BGS provided an employer best practices orientation and continued support for students, including professional skill-building workshops, clean energy career exposure opportunities, a mentoring program with professionals in the field, and community building within the cohort.

Through it's Coalition Membership Initiative, BGS connects, supports, and educates organizational leaders in their work to advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ) principles within their own organizations and collectively throughout the clean energy and climatetech sectors.

BGS worked as the Lead Education and Opportunity Partner for the Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources Clean Energy Internship Program. Over the past two years, BGS worked to recruit BIPOC students into clean energy internship roles and provided clean energy career awareness, professional development, mentoring and community building opportunities for all interns in partnership with Emerald Cities Collaborative.

PROSPECTS is an offshore wind workforce development program, in partnership with Xodus Group, to identify pathways, reduce barriers, and expand access to career opportunities in offshore wind.

A Pathway to Green Construction Careers: The Achieve Green program is a workforce training program that creates avenues for vocational technical high school students to gain the skills and education needed to pursue a career within the green construction industry, providing pathways that foster growth, job readiness and sustained employment.

The BGS ACCESS program is a 10-week paid contractor boot camp for aspiring clean energy business owners, providing entrepreneurs of color with curated business coaching, access to capital, and connections to customers, clients, and potential partners.

The VC Onramp Program seeks to remove barriers for aspiring VCs of color and grow the pipeline of BIPOC analysts, associates, and ultimately, general partners at VC firms by equipping them with the deep technical knowledge and social capital within the climatetech investment ecosystem.

BGS was a participant in a Community First Partnership (CFP) program with partner All in Energy to ...

The Green Equity Partnership is a community-based incumbent worker and BIPOC contractor training program that will provide technical training for the building decarbonization sector for both retrofits and new builds.

The Advancing Climatetech and Clean Energy Leaders (ACCEL) Program, a proven accelerator from Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space (BGS), is dedicated to supporting BIPOC and women-led startups as they develop critical climatetech solutions by offering access to funding, education, resources, and networks that structural inequities often put out of reach.

The Boston Civilian Climate Corps is a 16-week paid training program for formerly court involved and previously incarcerated individuals to enter the building electrification sector. The program consists of 10 weeks of classroom learning followed by 6 weeks of on the job training.

BGS served as an advisor to National Grid in developing and running a half-day roundtable discussion on equity in energy. BGS served to bring community voices and perspectives during ...