Enterprise offers an exciting new way for organizations, individuals and events to offset their carbon footprint by supporting our efforts to bring green housing to low-income people.
Here’s how it works:
- Enterprise raises charitable contributions to support the development and rehabilitation of green affordable homes that generate lower carbon emissions.
- We use those contributions to purchase carbon offsets that we measure and verify from affordable housing sponsors.
- We provide documentation to show Fund contributors that their support has helped create green affordable homes and reduce global warming pollution.
Every dollar of your contribution to the Green Communities Offset Fund will support the development of healthy, energy-efficient affordable homes for people in need.
Contribute to the Offset Fund.
Projects
View Green Communities developments across the nation.
Fact Sheet
The Green Communities Offset Fund Fact Sheet has detailed information about the Offset Fund. (PDF, 280K)
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Developer design green affordable homes to provide health, economic and environmental benefits to low-income people. |
Enterprise educates developers on options for an even green project by tapping the carbon market. |
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Developer revises the project to be more energy efficient of use renewable energy - leading to lower carbon emissions. |
Enterprise's Green Communities Offset Fund pays for the projected additional emissions reductions ("offsets"). Payment helps make the carbon reduction project improvements. |
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Developer commits not to sell the offset to anyone else for ten years. |
Enterprise certifies actual levels of emissions reductions in projects after they are built annually for ten years. |
Enterprise appreciates the support of the Merrill Lynch Community Development Company, L.L.C. in developing this initiative.
