Green Thumb, Inc. America's oldest and largest provider of mature and disadvantaged worker training and employment

Programs and Services

See also Job Seeker Resources at the Regional One Stop website.

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Experience Works!� is the first nationwide staffing service specifically designed for mature workers regardless of their age and income. The program helps older workers find jobs that match their skills, abilities, and work preferences while at the same time helping employers to fill their temporary, temporary-to- permanent, and permanent full- and part-time employment needs with reliable, skilled, and experienced workers.

Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP)
Green Thumb operates this program which promotes employment and training opportunities for mature workers that will ultimately lead to employment off the program, and assists in community service jobs that are necessary for communities outside the urban areas. An innovative and cost effective federal program, SCSEP allows individuals to remain productive and independent by contributing their talent and services to their communities while earning a modest income. Participating individuals are able to find fulfillment, add to their skills, train for further employment, and stay off public assistance. Individuals must meet income guidelines

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This program assists in the development and updating of employment seeking skills such as:

  • application writing
  • resume writing
  • interviewing techniques
  • labor market information
  • job seeking and job retention strategies
  • communication skills
  • assessment of interest, attitudes, aptitudes and goals
Green Thumb collaborates with other employment offices to provide job leads and referrals. This program is open to all job seekers

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Geezer- from Middle English, referred originally to a guiser (a costumed merrymaker or masquerader). Today's geezer is a bright, experienced, talented person who masquerades as a senior. We're about to change every preconception you have ever heard about geezers!

Green Thumb, Inc., is getting ready to launch a brand new e-commerce web site. Geezer.com will provide talented individuals with a way to market their crafts, products and goods.

As the premier site on the web for hand-made products, Geezer.com brims with the vitality, good humor, and special gifts of America's older generation - a generation that knows the value of hard work, loyalty to family and contribution to community.

We hope you will join us in bringing your unique products to shoppers from all over the world.

For further information, contact our office (503-649-0941) or send us an e-mail

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