- Rising Sun provides low-to-no-cost retrofit services to Bay Area households, with a focus on under-resourced communities: moderate and low-income residents, renters, and non-English speakers.
- Rising Sun provides green job training and employment to young people and to adults who face barriers to employment.
Rising Sun is a 501(c) non-profit. It has proved to be a nimble organization, with a willingness to listen closely to its constituencies and shape its growth accordingly. A suggestion from students at a Rising Sun workshop launched the organization into youth green job training. Feedback from program alumni and industry employers is shaping new training programs.
Today, Rising Sun runs the following programs:
Over the past nine years Rising Sun has trained more than 550 youth and adults and provided more than 12,000 homes with energy and water saving measures, carbon footprint reduction strategies, and advice on further energy savings.
How do I find out more? Call us at 510-665-1501.

The CYES 2009 Richmond Site with US Senator Barbara Boxer
Rising Sun staff and CYES Energy Specialists with Van Jones

Rising Sun staff and CYES Energy Specialists with Darrell Steinberg,
President pro Tem of the California State Senate
