2020 - 2022
Integrated Water Planning Assistance
The University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center (UMD EFC) partnered with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC EFC) to deliver integrated water planning assistance to communities. Assistance was delivered through webinars, office hours, and case study development with support from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Water.
Rachel E. Rosenberg Goldstein
Assistant Professor, Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health (GEOH)
Finding an Off-Campus Apartment Can Be Stressful. A Student-Created Platform Aims to Change That.
This article was originally published in Maryland Today. Written by Karen Shih ’09A friend’s text of a promotional flier saved Aadarsh Govada ’27 the last time he was frantically looking for an apartment in College Park. For months, he’d scoured websites and asked acquaintances about their experienc...
Evaluating Community Readiness for Resilience Investment
The Environmental Finance Center worked with two Maryland communities—the cities of Annapolis and Salisbury— to evaluate their readiness to invest in climate resilience and to develop guidance to help communities lay the groundwork for effective resilience funding. The project included conducting a crosswalk of each community's key planning and policy documents, evaluating whether the communities have in place key enabling conditions for resilience investment, and developing self-assessment questions that municipalities may use to determine their readiness to inves
2020
Delaware Watershed RCPP Research and Proposal Coordination
EFC worked with partners in the Delaware River Basin to develop a proposal for an upcoming Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) funding opportunity. This process included reviewing the original Delaware Basin RCPP project, providing comments to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) on new RCPP rules, identifying and engaging stakeholders, assessing stakeholder capacity and project feasibility, and developing an implementation plan.
2006
Delaware River Watershed Innovative Financing Strategy
The Environmental Finance Center, through the support of the William Penn Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, launched the Delaware River Watershed Innovative Financing Strategy Project. The EFC and its project partners convened an expert environmental financing panel and identified innovative and scalable options for financing Delaware River watershed restoration and protection efforts. The panel’s work resulted in a financing strategy that enabled the William Penn Foundation and its funding partners to allocate capital and funding in a way that is catalytic and ultimately successf
Integrated Funding and Financing Strategies for Hazard Mitigation Planning
The EPA is developing training materials for environmental watershed planners and hazard mitigation specialists at the state and local level to demonstrate the link between water quality protection, watershed planning, source water protection, and hazard mitigation programs. The materials will help professionals engaged in this work better understand how the concepts are related and can enhance planning efforts and improve outcomes when performed together.
2018 (June)
Informing, Improving and Expanding Water Quality Financing Through Advanced Data Management
Over the past three decades, billions of federal, state, and local dollars have been deployed to support water infrastructure projects and other programs that reduce point and nonpoint sources of pollution to the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
APX Professor Auction Spring 2026
6:15 - 9 p.m.
This event is hosted by the APX student organization and is open to the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation (MAPP) community only.Join us for a cocktail hour with free food, friendly bidding and unforgettable prizes. APX's professor auction is a chapter fundraiser that aims to promot...
2026-02-23T12:00:00
2026-02-23T12:00:00
Combined Bachelor's / Master’s Program in Real Estate Development Info Session
2 - 3 p..m.
This event is open to the UMD Community only.Join us for an information session to learn about the 4+1 Combined Bachelor's and Master’s Program in Real Estate Development.
2026-03-04T12:00:00
2026-03-04T12:00:00