Greening Spaces: Faith Communities
Financing Options for Greening Your Sacred Space
A a brief overview of a variety of options by which your faith community can finance the actions needed to reduce energy usage within your building.
Once you have done an energy audit and decided which retrofits to proceed with, you have to find ways to pay for them. There are many types of potential funding for your project, provided by many different sources. Which ones you use will depend on your needs, your financial situation, and your eligibility.
This is a brief overview of a variety of options by which your faith community can finance the actions needed to reduce energy usage within your building, or any other greening activity that requires monetary resources. It includes items on raising capital as well as contributions from other sources.
Contents Overview
- Financing Options for Greening Your Sacred Space
- Raising Capital
- Loans
- Capital Campaigns
- Bond Issues
- Energy Management Firms and Leasing Equipment
- Other Circumstances
- Contributions From Other Sources
- Grants
- Incentives
- Rebates
- Tax Breaks
- Re-investment of Savings
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