REGION – The Vermont Community Foundation has awarded the Sustainable Energy Outreach Network (SEON) a $7,500 grant to advance SEON’s sustainable training standards and opportunities. This grant will be used to support SEON’s efforts to implement a registered apprenticeship program for high-performance builders and further SEON’s training effort throughout the state. The advisory donor is “Modesty Is My Best Quality Fund.”
SEON’s activities can be summarized into three broad categories: (1) recruit young adults and career changers into the carpentry field of high-performance building. There is an acute shortage of carpenters, and SEON’s apprenticeship program is designed to close this gap; (2) train the incumbent workforce with the advanced knowledge and skills of building science to meet the challenges of our climate crisis; and (3) retain the workforce through leadership training and organizational consulting that builds a culture of personal mastery, team learning, and shared meaning.
SEON thanks our advisory donor, who shares our commitment to high standards and innovative practices in residential building.
SEON is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit training organization that delivers in-person courses on building science and leadership development throughout Vermont. To learn more and view the 2026 training schedule, visit www.buildingscience.org.