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Green Collar Project

With generous funding from Sharp Electronics, The HOPE Program is launching the Green Collar Project, which will prepare HOPE students for jobs in an environmental field while providing family sustaining wages, safe working conditions, and chances for advancement. Green Collar Jobs can be in construction, retrofitting buildings, energy efficiency, horticulture, transportation, or manufacturing sectors, among others.

The Sharp AQUOS Experience

As presenting sponsor of the Grand Central Terminal Kaleidoscope Light Show, Sharp designed the AQUOS Experience, a structure of AQUOS LCD televisions - in Grand Central Terminal, which will be on display throughout the month of December.

"We created the AQUOS Experience as a symbol of hope, especially important during this holiday season, and chose to work with The HOPE Program to help those who are out of work," said Doug Koshima, chairman and CEO, Sharp Electronics Corporation. "We strongly believe in The HOPE Program's important cause that not only helps those out of work to train and find jobs, but to maintain those jobs and turn them into careers for a better future for them and their families."

"The Green Collar Project aligns well with Sharp's core vision of creating energy-saving and energy-creating products.  This project reinforces Sharp's commitment to helping the environment and maintaining a cleaner and safer planet," said Koshima.

For more information on the Green Collar Project, please contact Barbara Edwards Delsman at bedelsman@thehopeprogram.org or 718-852-9307, ext. 17.