Browning the Green Space Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Workforce development: our workforce development initiatives pave pathways to employment in clean energy for students of color through scholarships, curriculum development, and workforce development, as well as help clean energy employers embrace, incorporate, and achieve dei goals in their recruitment, hiring, and retention activities. Our programing in this area includes: i.prospects: browning the green space, in partnership with xodus group, designed and launched a multifaceted workforce program that includes targeted community engagement campaigns to deliver an overview of the offshore wind industry for high school and community college students in environmental justice communities, and demonstration of pathways to industry employment through internships and pre-apprenticeships. Through the program, we have reached 400+ high school students through events with employers and post-secondary institutions to expose students to career opportunities in clean energy. Ii. Student internship program success (sips) initiative: bgs has served as a training provider for the Massachusetts clean energy center's sips initiative (formerly the targeted internship program) for the past 5 years. This program started as a pilot project in 2021 to address the lack of diversity within masscec's existing summer internship program. Bgs participated as a training provider in that pilot program and continued each subsequent summer ultimately taking over as the lead provide for the 2024 and 2025 sessions, bgs's role as a training provider is to recruit and match first generation college students, pell grant recipients and residents of environmental justice neighborhoods with clean energy employers for summer internship opportunities. Beyond screening and matching students with internships, bgs provides employer orientation and continued support for students, including professional skill-building workshops, clean energy career exposure opportunities, a mentoring program with professionals in the field, and community building within the cohort. Over the first 5 years of the program, bgs recruited, placed, and supported over 150 interns and over 300 employers with training around building more inclusive and supportive internship environments. Iii.renewable energy technology associate's degree outreach and recruitment: in partnership with benjamin franklin cummings institute of technology, bgs provided outreach, recruitment, and financial support to students for a new renewable energy associates degree program at bfit. The goal of this partnership was to increase awareness about the new associate's degree program by exposing students to clean energy topics and high-paying career opportunities in this sector. Bgs and bfit held virtual info sessions about the program, two renewable energy career days for students of dearborn stem academy, academy of the pacific rim, mary lyons pilot high school, youthbuild boston, boston day and evening academy, excel academy charter high school, phoenix charter academy (chelsea), citylab high school (revere) and john d. O'bryant high school of math and science, a bga senior intern project around student video creation, and a power your future career day attended by students of madison park vocational/technical high school, dearborn stem, somerville high school, charlestown high school, and boston green academy at greentown labs. In total, this program reached 130 students. Rhode Island clean energy internship program: bgs is working as the education and opportunity partner for the Rhode Island office of energy resources (oer) in support of their clean energy internship program for the past 2 years. Bgs works to recruit students of color for internships with ri-based clean energy companies and environmental nonprofits. In addition to their internship, all students participating in the program receive career and professional development workshops, mentoring, and connections with peers at other companies throughout the summ

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 59.4%; rating input score 59
• Program expense ratio: 77.6%; rating input score 78
• Fundraising efficiency: $58.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 23.5%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 28.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 42.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 47.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 47.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings