Panel: Creative Financing Opportunities
Time: 1:45-2:30 PM
Description
This panel examines nontraditional and blended financing models that can advance resilience, energy, and infrastructure projects when grant funding alone is insufficient. Panelists will discuss tools such as green banks, resilience authorities, revolving funds, and public-private partnerships, with examples relevant to flooding mitigation, energy resilience, and sustainable community development.
Speakers
Mark Belton
Facilitator/Moderator
Program Director, Throwe Environmental
Annabel Cryan
Panelist
Director of Innovative Financing Strategies, STV
Mary Edwards
Panelist
Chief Credit Officer, Montgomery County Green Bank
Stacy Schaefer
Panelist
Executive Director, Resilience Authority of Charles County