SCC and VGC Awarded Service Project of the Year!

The Corps Network awarded Southwest Conservation Corps’ Veteran Green Corps as the Service Project of the Year in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Project Category. SCC partnered with Veteran Green Jobs (VGJ) to create the Veterans Green Corps (VGC), an all-Veteran Conservation Corps comprised primarily of recently returning Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. VGC’s mission is to, “empower Veterans to transition to civilian life by leveraging their leadership experience to meet pressing conservation needs on public lands.”  SCC employs Veteran corpsmembers and crew leaders and mobilizes crews to complete conservation projects. There was an award ceremony that took place last week at Capitol Hill where the SCC and VGC were honored by Members of Congress.