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01 May

Reflections on the First Earth Day

Environment, Low-Income Housing
By Dan Greenberger, Chief Innovation Officer On April 22, 1970, our environment officially received its own day. I was a high school senior in a small town in the middle of Nebraska. At that time and place, climate change wasn’t a thing yet. From my Great Plains vantage point, hurricanes […]
16 Jan

Unique $3 Million Loan Benefits Low-Income Families and the Environment

Crowdfunding, Industry News, Low-Income Housing
Chicago, IL – Affordable Community Energy Services Company (ACE) recently received loan approval from Reinvestment Fund to perform comprehensive energy efficiency and water conservation projects for Mercy Housing in California, the nation’s largest nonprofit owner of low-income housing. “This loan is groundbreaking in a number of ways,” explains Jeff Greenberger, […]
03 Nov

Social Enterprise Turns to Impact Investor to Help Bring Energy Efficiency to Low-income Communities

Crowdfunding, Industry News, Low-Income Housing
CHICAGO, Oct. 30 – Bringing broad-based energy-efficiency, water conservation and renewable energy improvements to existing multifamily low-income housing is a daunting task. While state and utility incentives help in many cases, finding capital to pay the remaining costs has proven to be extremely difficult. Finding a solution to this challenge […]