Speaking Engagements

September 23: Tee Thomas

Tee speaks on a panel titled "Resilience as an Asset Class” with partners from Montgomery County Green Bank, AEI Consultants, and PRE Collective during New York Climate Week

September 23: Shaun O’Rourke

Shaun speaks at the Forest Restoration Leadership Forum during New York Climate Week on a panel titled “From Catastrophe to Resilience: Forests in a Changing Climate”

September 15: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: Set-Asides: What Are They and How Can They Be Used?

September 3: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: Source Water Protection & the SRFs

August 18: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: Creative Uses of SRF Funds

August 6: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: Importance of Projecting Budgets

July 21: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: Asset Management and Capital Improvement Plans

July 8: Amie Fleming

Amie joined a Panel Discussion on Conservation Efforts and Careers hosted by EcoWomen to celebrate World Nature Conservation Day.

July 2: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: Federal Award Compliance

June 16: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: What is the Best Way to Calculate Rates?

June 4: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: How Do I Prepare a Financial Review?

June 3: Chester Czuj

Elevate RC: California Convenings. Speaking about Funding Strategies for Established Recuperative Care Programs (2+ years in operation)

June 2-6: Tee Thomas 

Tee presented on two panels at The Conservation Finance Network's 2025 Conservation Finance Boot Camp in New Haven, CT.

May 19: Alison Rein

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s leadership summit entitled “The Business of Flourishing: Innovative Investments in Children and Youth”

May 18: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: Why Should I be Taking on Debt?

May 13: Chester Czuj

2025 National Health Care for the Homeless Conference & Policy Symposium in Baltimore, MD. Session title: “State of Medicaid Payment for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness: Opportunities, Trends, and Lessons Learned”

May 13: Matt Lindsay

Matt spoke to the Halcyon DMV Climate fellows about “Creative Pathways to Market for Climate Enterprises”

May 7: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: What is Environmental Reporting?

April 24: Alison Rein

Georgetown University's Master of Health Systems Administration Program's Spring On-Campus Intensive Week. Panel discussion entitled "Innovation for Patient Engagement & Experience,” focused on emerging technologies and strategies to improve patient care.

April 21: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: Is Free Money Actually Free?

April 2: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: What Documents are Important for Submission to the SRF?

March 24: Tee Thomas

Resilience 365 Conference hosted by University of Miami Climate Resilience Institute and Miami Dade County. Tee speaks on an expert panel titled “Innovative Resilience Finance Mechanisms”

March 17: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: What is Readiness to Proceed?

March 5: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: What Is The Green Project Reserve (GPR)?

February 27: Tee Thomas

Our CEO attends the invitation-only Northeast Climate Resilience Roundtable co-hosted by Ceres and Morgan Stanley to engage in discussions about opportunities to mobilize capital for climate mitigation and adaptation projects in the Northeast.

February 10: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: CWSRF Eligibilities

February 5: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: DWSRF Eligibilities

January 29: Alison Rein

The Commonwealth Fund’s Financing Community Birthing: Scaling Blended Capital event on the panel “Exploring Alternate Financing Opportunities for Community Birthing”.

January 29: Susan Donovan & Chester Czuj

Virtual Symposium: Funding a Medical Respite Program for National Health Care for the Homeless Council

January 13: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: What Is An IUP?

January 8: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: How Do I Get Started?

December 16: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: What is Predevelopment Funding?

December 6: Shaun O’Rourke

Spoke about "Accelerating Climate Investment: A Capital Stack Approach" at the Climate Adaptation Forum in Boston.

December 4: Ashley Lucht

Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: What are the SRFS and What are the Pros and Cons?

October 18: Tee Thomas

Spoke about Innovative Conservation Finance Solutions at the Global Congress of the International Land Conservation Network.

October 7: Cailin O’Brien-Feeney

Spoke on a panel about "Financing Conservation through a Climate-Ready Outdoor Sector" at the 2024 Vermont Conservation Conference.

October 1: Tee Thomas

Spoke at the National Leadership Forum on Rural Development hosted by Outdoor Recreation Roundtable.

September 27: Amie Fleming

Land Trust Alliance's Rally 2024 - National Land Conservation Conference for the panel "How Maine Land Trusts Created a New Landowner"

September 26: Susan Donovan

Shared her thoughts on Social Drivers of Health interventions and alternative financing options for early-stage startups at Village Capital's LIFT: Accelerating Equitable Health Innovation 2024.

September 26: Shaun O'Rourke

Land Trust Alliance's Rally 2024 - National Land Conservation Conference on a panel titled "Strategies for Advancing Land Protection for Clean Water"

September 25: Tee Thomas

Climate Week NYC for the session “Financing the Green Transition: A Deep Dive into Climate Finance”

September 25: Shaun O'Rourke

Climate Week NYC on the panel, "Flipping the Switch for Forest Finance"

September 12-13: Chester Czuj

2024 California Recuperative Care Symposium

September 12: Susan Donovan

MHPA 2024 Annual Conference

September 11: Tee Thomas

National Rural Water Association Water Pro Conference

September 10: Susan Donovan

CareForum 2024

June: Tee Thomas 

GreenBiz Group's GreenFin24 finance and investing event in New York City. 

June: Matt Lindsay

"Creative Pathways to Market for Climate Enterprises" during the Halcyon Climate Fellows skills series in Washington, DC.

May: Alison Rein 

Spoke on a panel during the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's "Investing for Well Being Design" Team Working Session.

April: Matthew Carney & Tee Thomas

Our team was in North Carolina for The Conservation Finance Network Roundtable. Matt provided roundtable participants with an update on implications and opportunities of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund awards and Tee led a panel discussion on developing a project pipeline for nature-based solutions.

April: Shaun O'Rourke

Joined an expert panel to talk "Funding City-Scale Resilience" at the Urban Land Institute’s Resilience Summit.

February 7: Tee Thomas

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Policy Forum (speaking on financing nature-based solutions)

February 9: Tee Thomas

Virtual testimony before the Vermont legislature (speaking on the creation of a green bank and overall distribution of climate funds)

January 29: Alison Rein

Alison hosts a Catalyst Roundtable to discuss mobilizing capital to advance creative, cross-sector, and collaborative solutions that improve health equity and address social determinants of health at the Lutheran Services in America CEO Summit.

January 29: Chris Wolff

Chris will be presenting to a coalition of watershed restoration groups, municipalities, and NGOs in Arizona on the topic of leveraging Arizona State Revolving Funds for Natural Climate Solution (aka - Nature Based Solutions) projects as well as the need to stack innovative funding and financing to make paper projects become reality.

January 31: Chris Wolff

Chris presents a session at the Colorado Water Congress Annual Convention to educate organizations, NGOs, and partners on how to stack funding and financing approaches to catalyze and scale Nature-Based Solution projects in Colorado.