November 7, 2024
@10:00am
November 7, 2024
@12:00pm
Nixon Peabody LLP
Exchange Place, 53 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
United States
*** IN-PERSON TICKETS SOLD OUT, STREAMING ONLY TICKETS AVAILABLE***
Massachusetts has a range of funding opportunities from both state and federal programs to assist with deep energy retrofits and high-performance new construction projects aimed at developers and owner-operators of affordable housing. These programs have varying goals, requirements, and deadlines that participants must be informed about and ready to meet.
Please join CHAPA in person on November 7, 2024, at Nixon Peabody’s office from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM for our second Climate Funding Forum: Decarbonization Opportunities and Resources for Massachusetts Developers.
This is a unique opportunity to learn how affordable housing developers and owner-operators can take full advantage of these significant funding opportunities. During the forum, a panel of industry experts will break down critical funding programs, including federal resources through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and Inflation Reduction Act, statewide incentive programs, and much more!
Registration and continental breakfast will open at 9:30 am.
Panel Discussion:
- MODERATOR: Amy Stitely, Undersecretary for Strategy & Climate, Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC)
- Lauren Baumann, Director of Sustainability and Climate Initiatives, Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP)
- Emily Jones, Deputy Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Massachusetts
- Kelsey Read, Program Director, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
- Michael Salgueiro, National Underwriter, Green Projects, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
- Benjamin Silverman, Residential Program Manager, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources
- Maggie Super Church, Director of Policies and Programs, Massachusetts Community Climate Bank
Panel Presentations & Resources (added post forum):
Tickets are $30.00 for CHAPA members and $50.00 for non-members for each forum. If the individual ticket price is a hardship, please contact Sam Pereira (spereira@chapa.org) to inquire about reduced admission or a complimentary ticket. Please also contact Sam Pereira if you need an invoice to pay for your ticket. Refunds will not be provided to those who register but do not attend the forum.
Streaming-only tickets are available! If you are unable to join us in person for this forum but still would like to benefit from hearing from our speakers live, please consider a ticket for access to a live stream of the event. Note that prices for these tickets are the same as in-person attendance prices and the same refund policy applies. Live Q&A will not be available, and the stream will be presented in a webinar format.
Remember to renew your membership and save on ticket prices! Please reach out to Sam Pereira (spereira@chapa.org) with any questions about this forum.
PANELIST & SPEAKER BIOS
Amy Stitely serves as the Undersecretary for Strategy and Climate at the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities. In this role, Amy is responsible for developing and implementing broad policy, program, and organizational strategy to meet the state’s housing and climate-related goals. She works across programs, agencies, and communities to accelerate decarbonization and increase climate resilience. In her past eleven years of state service, Amy has led several large-scale initiatives including the Covid-19 Eviction Diversion Initiative and public housing reform. Prior to becoming a public servant, Amy worked as a planning consultant for disaster recovery, energy efficiency, and workforce development initiatives.
Lauren Baumann joined MHP in 2024. She provides leadership and oversight of climate-related housing initiatives. She represents MHP’s climate vision at the state level and positions MHP to best serve its borrowers with technical and financial resources for climate-ready work. Until 2022, she was vice president at New Ecology, a Boston-based, nonprofit building science firm focused on sustainable community development and affordable housing. In her 17 years there, she led teams providing consulting services to affordable housing owners and developers—including many MHP borrowers— innovated new services and acted as a technical advisor for local municipalities, the state of Massachusetts and national organizations.
Emily Jones serves as the Deputy Director for LISC Massachusetts. In this role, Emily oversees Green Homes program work, leads ongoing policy and advocacy efforts, and supports organizational operations related to resource development and data management. Before joining LISC in 2016, Emily was Director of Partnerships for Union Capital, a nonprofit that transforms social capital into opportunity. Emily has also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo, and worked and served as an AmeriCorps Member with City Year Boston. Emily holds a bachelor’s degree in Geography and a master’s degree in Public Policy.
Kelsey Read is a Program Director on the high-performance buildings team at MassCEC and has been with MassCEC since 2014. He led MassCEC’s efforts in partnership with the Department of Energy Resources on the $45 million Mass Solar Loan program and a variety of other efforts supporting the growth of solar in Massachusetts, market growth in building decarbonization, and innovative approaches to climate finance. He is leading MassCEC’s efforts on the upcoming implementation of the Commonwealth's Solar For All programming. Kelsey has a degree in Economics and Physics from Bowdoin College and has previously worked in economic and environmental research and data analytics.
Michael Salgueiro is the National Underwriter for Green Projects at LISC. He joined the organization full-time as a National Underwriting Analyst in June 2022. Michael also worked as a consultant for LISC’s Government Investments team previously, where he helped develop the organization’s climate resilience strategy. Prior to joining LISC, he worked as a management consultant and as a program manager at a research center committed to locally based, community-driven research projects in Charlottesville, VA. Michael has graduate degrees in urban planning and public policy from the University of Virginia and Bachelor of Arts degrees in economics and psychology from Georgetown University. He grew up in Miami, FL and currently lives in New Haven, CT.
Benjamin Silverman – CPHC, LEED AP: BD+C – is the Residential Program Manager with the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources’ Energy Efficiency Team. There he leads up residential energy efficiency programming including federal efficiency and electrification efforts like HER and HEAR. Before starting with DOER he was a Program Manager with the City of Boston’s Environment Department where he led management of the City’s BERDO benchmarking policy and was the technical lead in development of the BERDO 2.0 building performance standard. Benjamin has also worked for the Institute for Market Transformation, the City of Oakland, and the City of New York.
Maggie Super Church is Director of Policies and Programs for the Massachusetts Community Climate Bank (MCCB). In this role, she is responsible for leading the development and implementation of financing solutions for single-family and multi-family housing that advance the Commonwealth's building sector decarbonization goals. Prior to joining MCCB, Maggie was a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she contributed to a forthcoming book on climate and community development co-published by LISC and Enterprise Community Partners. She previously served as Vice President for Healthy and Resilient Communities at the Conservation Law Foundation and co-led the creation of multi-investor funds for healthy neighborhoods in partnership with the Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation. Maggie holds a master’s degree in City Planning from MIT, a master’s degree in Urban Design from the Edinburgh College of Art, and a BA in Architecture from Yale University.