“Leveraging for Brownfields Revitalization” Webinar

The Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization (OBLR) is proud to announce a webinar series focusing on tools and best practices for assisting communities in successfully leveraging resources for brownfields revitalization. Individual webinars will provide useful information for communities on how to establish effective strategies to build support for revitalization projects, and how to use existing resources to attract additional funding for critical community revitalization projects.

The “Meet the Funders” webinars in the series will highlight funding resources and technical assistance available from specific federal agencies or from philanthropic organizations.

Registration is Open for the first three webinars in this series:

July 26, 2016, 1:00-2:30 pm EDT: The first webinar, Leveraging Resources for Brownfields Revitalization, will discuss available tools to assist communities in leveraging resources to address community revitalization goals and challenges. It will include a presentation on Dubuque, Iowa’s successful efforts to leverage its own resources to attract other federal, state, public, and private sources of funding and technical assistance. Speakers include: Patricia Overmeyer, EPA OBLR; and Teri Goodmann, Assistant City Manager, and Maurice Jones, Economic Development Director, City of Dubuque, IA. Matt Ward, CEO, Sustainable Strategies DC, will moderate the session. Register at: https://clu-in.org/training/webinar/BFLeveraging1/

Additional upcoming webinars include:

October 25, 2016, 1:00-2:30 pm EDT: Leveraging Resources for Brownfields Revitalization: Meet the Funders
This webinar will highlight the resources for brownfields revitalization available from one or two federal agencies outside of EPA. It is the second in OBLR’s webinar series on what communities need to know to successfully leverage resources for brownfields revitalization.
December 14, 2016, 1:00-2:30 pm EST: Leveraging Resources for Brownfields Revitalization: Meet the Funders
This second “Meet the Funders” webinar will highlight the resources for brownfields revitalization available from one or two more federal agencies outside of EPA. It is the part of OBLR’s webinar series focusing on what communities need to do to successfully leverage resources for brownfields revitalization.