Resource Center

Small communities, businesses and other organizations face a range of complex funding challenges as they attempt to meet the demands of environmental protection. In order to help our clients identify and analyze funding options, the Environmental Finance Center has developed tools and techniques to help promote innovative solutions to environmental finance.

The EFC promotes a "community quilt" concept of financing, where government programs plus innovative financing techniques come together to help achieve desired results. By "piecing together" funding from various governmental sources as well as equitable user-based rate structures, a community, or several communities, can "knit together" a comprehensive financing package for environmental protection. Above are Links and Resources and other tools that communities and organizations can use to make their own "community quilt" a reality.