For more than three decades, the Environmental Finance Center has helped hundreds of local, state, and federal partners throughout the Mid-Atlantic region advance policies, programs, and financing strategies that achieve outcomes for people, places, and the environment. See EFC’s featured work below.

Empowering communities to achieve their vision for a healthy, equitable and sustainable future

The University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center (EFC) advances finance solutions to environmental challenges. With more than 30 years serving the Mid-Atlantic region, we work to strengthen the capacity of local leaders to deliver effective programming, access funding and financing, and catalyze action.

Our research centers and institutes forward groundbreaking research within the built environment that advances dynamic, sustainable and just places.

The School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (MAPP) offers flexible, interdisciplinary undergraduate degrees that prepare students to shape the built environment, with an emphasis on creative problem-solving, technical proficiency and critical thinking. Whether pursuing architecture, real estate, or one of our minors, students gain the tools to create more vibrant and just places for all.

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