MOKAN has a conversation with OFFSET
Join us today as we chat with OFFSET from the Migos about the importance of creating opportunities for Women and Minorities in the Construction Trades. Offset will be talking with two of our Alumni from the MOKAN Pre-Apprenticeship program and introduce MOKAN’s advocacy to the world.
Ygrene & MOKAN conduct pre-apprenticeship workshop for minority contractors for Set the PACE St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, March 14, 2019—Ygrene conducts several PACE trainings per year with the region’s premier minority contractors association, MOKAN, in addition to pre-apprenticeship workshops educating students on the burgeoning opportunities in clean energy and PACE financing for Set the PACE St. Louis. The City of St. Louis prioritizes inclusion and racial equity as guiding, organizational principles; and Set the PACE St. Louis carries these priorities forward through outreach to minority and woman contractors to participate in the program.
Access to Capital for Economically Underprivileged Communities
A 2016 study found that low-income communities spend a much higher share of their income on energy.1 Further, “utility bills are the primary reason why people resort to payday loans, and play an outsized role in the perpetuation of poverty.”
MOKAN Pre-Apprenticeship Program Registration Checklist
Letter from the Executive Director
Welcome to the MOKAN Construction Contractors Assistance Center website. We hope you will bookmark this site and visit us often. MOKAN CCAC is committed to your success. Our motto says it all…”We work so that you can work.” Our dedicated and committed staff of professionals works hard on a daily basis to ensure that MOKAN is out front advocating…
MOKAN awards Ygrene for helping minority businesses
MOKAN Construction Contractors Assistance Center gave its 2017 Community Partner Award to Ygrene Energy Fund for its efforts to connect minority businesses with access to stronger energy-contract job opportunities, particularly its community-based partnership with...
New program offers job and life skills to minorities and women
Unemployed minorities and females looking to enter the construction industry in the St. Louis region now have a new training option. MOKAN Construction Contractors Assistance Center announced Monday that an eight-week course, Construction Trades Pre-Apprenticeship...