Environmental Finance Center Network (EFCN)
Find the Environmental Finance Center (EFC) serving your area.
EPA provides grant funding to 10 university-based environmental finance centers, linked through their coordinating network, the Environmental Finance Center Network (EFCN). By sharing and integrating information, tools and techniques, the Environmental Finance Centers (EFCs) work together and with the public and private sectors to solve funding challenges for environmental programs and promote a sustainable environment.
EFCs serve all 50 states and U.S. territories:
EPA Region 1 (serving Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont)
University of Southern Maine
Focus: Advance the understanding and practice of smart growth, the prevention of and adaptation to climate change, and the development of alternative energy resources.
EPA Region 2 (serving New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands)
Syracuse University
Focus: Advance sustainable communities, rural leadership development, and community relations, and provide infrastructure education and outreach tools.
EPA Region 3 (serving Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia)
University of Maryland
Focus: Assist local governments, communities, and watershed organizations in fulfilling their role(s) in effectively and responsibly managing natural resources at a watershed scale.
EPA Region 4 (serving Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Focus: The environmental financing needs of underserved populations in small to medium sized communities, particularly those that are considering local or regional arrangements for environmental infrastructure.
University of Louisville
Focus: To provide technical assistance and training in addressing and managing conflicts that arise between environmental protection and economic development.
EPA Region 5 (serving Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin)
Cleveland State University
Focus: Explore emerging issues in innovative environmental finance, reduction in transportation-related carbon emissions, land-banking strategy development, urban revitalization, lead abatement, and drinking water and wastewater infrastructure asset management and financial health.
EPA Region 6 (serving Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas) and EPA Region 8 (serving Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming)
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Focus: Assist state, local, and tribal governments in water system capacity development, source water protection, tribal water system compliance, tribal operator certification, water regionalization, drought preparedness planning, arsenic rule compliance, leak detection, and asset management.
EPA Region 7 (serving Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska)
Wichita State University
Focus: Promote financial capacity on environmental issues including water resources and infrastructure, solid waste management, air quality, renewable energy, green building and land conservation.
EPA Region 9 (serving Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau)
Dominican University of California
Focus: Encourage industry to implement sustainable business practices, educate and encourage consumers to choose green business products and services, and help communities, tribes and governments promote sustainable, self-supporting business.
EPA Region 10 (serving Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington)
Boise State University
Focus: Help local communities determine how to pay for protecting the public’s drinking water, create financial capacity for sustainable drinking water and waste water systems, and managing watersheds for functional long-term ecosystem sustainability.