Leveraging

Welcome to WeatherizationPLUS.org

This section of our website is full of resources that will help your WAP agency’s LEVERAGING efforts

What is “Leveraging”?

The word means: using the resources of the program and its organizations, such as people, time, skills, good reputation and funding, to attract more complementary resources. The Weatherization Partnership Project will support Weatherization delivery agencies’ expansion and accountability initiatives by supporting the exchange of ideas and results and the development of expanded partnerships.

With the ARRA Weatherization Program ending soon, it is now more important than ever to take advantage of other sources of funding available through utilities and other financing methods.

Leveraging Basics – Start here if you’re new to leveraging.

Utility Leveraged Programs – On this page, you will find best-practices information about successful leveraged partnerships with utility companies.

Housing-Related Programs

Fee-for-Service Weatherization

What’s New?

• January 2012 Weatherization PLUS Newsletter #2
• Materials from EOS Webinar: Beginning to Leverage: Get WAP Funding for Your Leveraging Staff & Project Development! – January 2012
  • Presentation Slides
  • Funding Leveraging Activities: The Law, The Regulation, The Program Guidance
  • Leveraging Planning Template
  • State Leveraging Plan Examples
  • Project Description
• January 2012 Weatherization PLUS Newsletter #1
• Leveraging: Now More Than Ever – Presentation by Meg Power and Lisa Kesecker, National Weatherization Training Conference, December 2011
• How Low-Income Households Use Energy – December 2011
• Handout: New Resources for Local Weatherization Programs: Choose a Lever to Fit Your Goal – September 2011
• Handout: Tools for Weatherizers on the EOS Website (plus three one-pagers) – September 2011
• New Directions to Get to Our Goals and Employ our Workforce – August 2011
• Overview: Federal 2011 Financing for Affordable Multifamily Housing Green Retrofits – August 2011
• Over $300 Million in Federal Funds for State, Local, and Tribal Governments – August 2011 update
• Managing Multifamily Weatherization: Good Practices – June 2011
• Multifamily Weatherization: Community and Economic Development Agency (CEDA) of Cook County, IL – June 2011
• Multifamily Weatherization: Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) – June 2011
• Glossary of Energy Efficiency Financing Tools – June 2011
• Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Bonds – June 2011
• "Subordinated" Capital – June 2011
• Revolving Loan Funds – June 2011
• Loan Loss Reserve Funds – June 2011