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EFC partnered with the Maryland Forestry Foundation to develop an action framework and community engagement series to support Resilience Financing for Maryland Local Governments. This capacity building and education effort was designed to help local governments build resilience into their communities, particularly in the form of natural capital.

The Environmental Finance Center Network (EFCN) provides training and technical assistance to small public water and wastewater systems in rural and urban communities and to tribally-owned and -operated systems throughout the U.S.

Professor Howland is an expert in employment, urban and regional economic planning, economic development, and urban form, with a focus on Post-Soviet Russia. She authored "Worker Displacement, The Regional Issues" and co-authored "Combines to Computers: Rural Development in the Information Age." As a co-principal investigator, she contributed to a five-year grant under the U.S.

In January 2005, the Chesapeake Executive Council issued Directive 04-1 in response to the recommendations set forth by the Blue Ribbon Finance Panel.

Ronit Eisenbach is an architect, artist, curator, and educator whose work intertwines art, design, and architecture to engage dialogue about the environments we create. Her practice explores how perceptions of subjective, invisible, and ephemeral objects influence our understanding of place.

Steven W. Hurtt is Professor and former Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park. He taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1973-1990 and was a partner in the firm of Hurtt-Kenrick Architects, P.C. Professor Hurtt enjoys teaching studio, participating on thesis committees and directing independent study courses.

Professor Bechhoefer focuses on regionalism and multi-culturalism related to design practice. His interests include vernacular building and the effects of contemporary interventions in traditional environments.

Howell Baum is an Emeritus Professor in the Urban Studies and Planning program. Baum has completed a historical study of Baltimore school desegregation entitled Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism. The book analyzes how liberalism hinders knowing and talking about race and limits possibilities of racial integration.

The School’s first appointment as Professor of the Practice was Gary Bowden, appointed by former Dean Steve Hurtt. Steve had met Gary years before when they were both young teachers, with Gary at Hampton University. Gary had a long professional career and became a partner at RTKL in Baltimore.

Professor Francescato focuses on architectural and urban theory, criticism, environmental design research, environmental psychology, and design methods.

EFC’s Sustainable Maryland (SM) program recently convened staff, elected officials and Green Team members from 14 municipalities along the Route One Corridor in Prince George's County, Maryland, to discuss how they could advance projects and collaborate on a regional basis to address stormwater and flooding issues and the creation of a pollinator corridor.

In March 2023, 125 local and state leaders from across the Chesapeake Bay Watershed gathered at the two-day, virtual Chesapeake Bay Watershed Tree Canopy Funding and Policy Roundtable to discuss challenges and opportunities in advancing tree canopy goals.