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Online Course in Conservation Finance.
Searchable Database of Funding Sources. The Directory of Watershed Resources is a searchable database of resources available to assist with a variety of environmental projects. It includes information on federal, state, private, and other funding sources and assistance. Users can search for programs through a targeted search, keyword search or through an index of federal, state and private sources. The Directory has recently been updated to include funding programs that focus on the six New England States.
A watershed planning tool that walks users through estimating costs of their watershed plans, goals and objectives, assessing any local match, and determining funds needed to meet the goals and objectives of the plan.
The Guidebookprovides an overview of ways to pay for sustainable environmental systems. It presents information on about 340 financial tools. It is the product of a collaborative effort among members of the EPA's Environmental Financial Advisory Board, the Directors and staff of nine university-based Environmental Finance Centers, the staff of EPA’s Environmental Finance Program, and numerous other contributors.
The Next Communities Initiative is a comprehensive three-day curriculum package for helping local officials, conservation trust leaders, developers and others concerned about the difficulty of agreeing on community change to create effective approaches to those challenging decisions. Smart growth principles, leadership, political and regulatory processes, and consensus-building skills make up the three modules. The package includes detailed instructor/trainer guides.
25 Questions for Assessing Your Water System’s Financial Health. This interactive, self-assessment tool is designed to help evaluate your water system’s financial capacity. Based on your responses to 25 questions, the tool provides feedback and an overall scoring assessment. It also provides additional information on each question, as well as links to on-line training resources. Whether you score well or poorly, the focus is on fostering better understanding of financial capacity issues and linking you to resources that can serve to enhance your system’s fiscal vitality.
Low Impact Development (LID) Resources. The Center’s Water Program has pursued several LID-related activities, with a focus on overcoming financial and other barriers to widespread use of the approach. An LID Fact Sheet is now available, aimed at promoting basic understanding of the approach and overcoming local barriers to implementation. It includes a short introduction to the approach, and two “Top 5” lists for promoting LID in your community: one focused on general efforts, and one on revising local land use regulations. A compendium of Selected LID Projects in New England is also available. These products are all tailored to New England. For more general treatments of the topic, a good set of tools is available through EPA (http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/lid/costs07/).
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