TRAINING Opportunities
OTHER FOUNDATIONAL TRAINING
There are a number of other training opportunities available, depending on your agency’s specific needs, work focus, and community. Below is a small selection. Included in the list are some trainings that may be more appropriate to partners like community lenders or housing developers. But there is great overlap with the work of consumer-focused Navigators.
Training Title Green Home Lending
Organization: University of New Hampshire – Carsey School of Impact Finance
Purpose: To provide community lenders with information about financing and developing various energy-related initiatives to include solar on home rooftops, community or commercial solar, and other resilient home improvements such as energy upgrades, weatherization, and electrification.
Content: Consumer lending; utilizing incentives; working with qualified contractors; electrification; etc.
Training Title Housing Counseling Energy Efficiency Essentials
Organization: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Purpose: To provide housing counselors with information about improvements and opportunities to reduce energy costs over time.
Content: Energy saving investments; resources for consumers; financial incentives; utility benefits; energy audits; etc.
Training Title Electric Coaches by Rewiring America
Organization: Electric Coaches by Rewiring America
Purpose: Free training that teaches individuals how to advance alternative energy products and programs in their communities and effectively promote the switch to electric.
Content: Four-week training session includes information on electrification, coaching strategies, high-performance features and electrification strategies, heat pumps, and ways to integrate the knowledge and promote programs locally.
Training Title Sustainability Bootcamps
Organization: National Housing Trust
Purpose: DOE Home Energy Rebates; Electrification, High-Performance features, and Energy Efficiency; Resiliency and Solar Opportunities in Affordable Housing; Engaging and Centering Residents; etc.
Content: Market assessment; product development; working with installers and developers, underwriting; deal structuring; asset management; etc. Other training options available.
Training Title Various Topics Related to Energy Efficiency
Organization: The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
Purpose: To educate on how we can transform and optimize how energy is used in the economy.
Content: Energy efficiency policy, energy efficiency in buildings, hot water and hot air forums, etc.
Training Title: ENERGY STAR Training Center
Organization: ENERGY STAR
Purpose: A training resource to help counselors convey to their staff, customers and partners the value of using ENERGY STAR to protect the environment while saving energy and money.
Content: Training resources available on multiple specific topics such as a consumer messaging guide, televisions, A/V Equipment, utilities, and more
Training Title: Renewable Energy and Sustainability Conference
Organization: Native Learning Center
Purpose: Attendees learn more about Tribal opportunities for alternative energy deployment. This includes small scale energy, opportunities for Tribal housing agencies, and utility-scale energy.
Content: Tribal-private partnerships; funding and tax credits; financing opportunities for Tribally-Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs)
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Resilience Academy
Organization: Enterprise Community Partners
Purpose: Cohort based training for multifamily housing owners. Primarily developer focused but with attention on avoiding tenant and resident displacement.
Content: Using funding and other incentives for multifamily projects; tenant resilience; new and retrofit home standards and elements.
Training Title: HomeStyle Mortgages Unlocked
Organization: Fannie Mae
Purpose: Help lenders and underwriters understand how to use Fannie Mae’s proprietary EEM.
Content: Energy Efficient Mortgages; lending; underwriting.