Enterprise offers grants to help cover the costs of planning and implementing green components of affordable housing developments, as well as tracking their costs and benefits.
Planning & Construction Grants
Grants up to $50,000 cover planning and construction expenses including additional costs of architectural work, engineering, site surveys and costs associated with items such as a more efficient HVAC system, green materials and energy efficient appliance.
Charrettes Grants
Grants for up to $5,000 to assist housing developers with integrating green building systems in their developments and engage in a serious discussion of green design possibilities. Enterprise will award planning grants to affordable housing developers to coordinate a green design charrette.
Sustainability Training Grants (post-construction)
Green Communities offers Sustainability Training Grants up to $5,000 for affordable housing developers.
Funding is available to cover the design and distribution of an operations and maintenance.
Enterprise would like to thank the generous supporters of our Green Communities Grants program, which presently include:
- Bank of America Foundation, Inc.
- Citigroup Foundation
- The Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD)
- The Home Depot Foundation
- The Kendeda Fund
- The Kresge Foundation
- JPMorgan Chase
- Surdna Foundation
Individual grant requests will be reviewed and acted on by a grants committee that includes Enterprise staff.
