- Funding Sources for "greening" your projects
- Home Depot Foundation - Apply for funding for "greening housing development from the Home Depot Foundation partners with affordable housing developers.
- Enterprise Community Partners
- A database of funders that support a wide variety of social enterprises. Use the drop down menu to search for support for "green" affordable housing projects.
- Sign up to be an Enterprise partner. You will be eligible for some grants and awards restricted to partners, and you will be "in the loop" of information and training resources for sustainable community development!
- Your utilities’ Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard means they must find partners with renewable energy to hook into their system. See if your state is one with these requirements at: http://www.eere.energy.gov/states/maps/renewable_portfolio_states.cfm See some Weatherizers’ partnerships funded from RPS ventures below.
- See the first state low income Solar program. Use these model documents to help you make the case for solar WAP and housing development funding to your Commission :
- MORE COMING!
- Other organizations also developing information resources about ‘green’ development funding
- Renewable Energy Projects by local weatherizers
- Technical Assistance to ‘Green’ your projects and your operations:Many experts are working on common definitions of what makes a building ‘green’ or a development sustainable. Here are a few of the key starting -off sites:
- Building America - Combines the knowledge and resources of industry leaders with the U.S. Department of Energy’s technical capabilities.
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