Stan Johnson Featured Speaker for Torch Club
Stan Johnson will be the featured speaker for the Torch Club on Thursday, October 20th beginning at 11:45. Everyone is invited to hear the presentation about clean energy and how to create and sustain jobs for Knoxville's urban youth.
Stan Johnson is the Director of SEEED. Stan is CEO of S & J Ventures, Inc., a development company. A long-time resident of Knoxville, he earned a B.S. in business administration from Knoxville College. He is a member Metropolitan Planning Commission of Knoxville, a member of the Masonic Lodge and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. His goal as commissioner is to help citizens understand the process of planning and zoning in our community.
SEEED is a Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development is a green community development non-profit focusing on creating and sustaining jobs for Knoxville’s urban young people, and ensuring clean energy and conservation technologies are available for low income residents. Ours is a movement that grew out of kitchen table conversations in 2009, where residents (a mix of young people and adults) of Knoxville's Empowerment Zone talked about the opportunities that were developing with green jobs and how these opportunities could be used to transform the community. Young and old alike developed the idea of SEEED. SEEED prepares at-risk young people for good paying, sustainable green jobs in Knoxville’s emerging green economy. SEEED participants are low-income young people 16-28 years old from the heart of Knoxville. Youth who apply and are accepted into the program participate in a 90-day pre-apprenticeship, which includes basic life skills training, mentoring, and 50 hours of community service. After the 90-day period, 18-24 year old participants can apply for an intensive residential 12-month green job education, apprenticeship, and placement program.