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Videos
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Mayor Daniella Levine Cava (Miami-Dade County) - Speech at Gibson Plaza | Miami, FL
Doug Coward (Executive Director, SELF) - Speech at Gibson Plaza | Miami, FL
Stewart Hudson (Executive Director, Lowenstein Foundation) - Speech at Gibson Plaza | Miami, FL
Commissioner Raquel Regalado (District 7) - Speech at Gibson Plaza | Miami-Dade County, FL
Financing Climate Solutions and Job Creation
Duanne Andrade's testimony before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee 4/27/21
PACE: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
The Business of Climate Change: Steve Sowders, Westfall Roofing
The Business of Climate Change: Doug Coward, Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF)
WPTV 6 16 2021 SELF helps struggling homeowners avoid sweating over AC payments - Sea Coast AC
Inside St Lucie June 2021
Virginia Green Bank Webinar 4 14 21
CBS: Nonprofit helps homeowners in need
Bay News 9: Low Interest Loans Help Locals Cool Homes
ABC: Low interest loans help disabled seniors in Tampa Bay
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In the News
Bay Soundings
Low-cost Loans Help Homeowners Prepare for Climate Change
UPDATED AUGUST 30, 2023 2:42 PM Read the original article at Bay Soundings, Tampa Bay’s Environmental News When most people think about resilience in the ...
SELF’s Climate Resiliency Leadership in the South, LMI Communities highlighted by Coalition for Green Capital
SELF Leads Climate Resiliency Efforts Across the South, Providing Unique Financial Tools to Serve LMI Communities The Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF) recently reached ...
Hill Heat
Congressional Climate Camp: Implementing the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Read More at HillHeat What to learn more about climate policy? But not sure where to start? We have you covered. The Environmental and Energy ...
Miami Herald
Need a new roof or impact windows but don’t have the cash? Explore these options
BY ALEX HARRIS UPDATED FEBRUARY 14, 2023 10:56 PM 00:15 01:33 Read the original article at the Miami Herald Skyrocketing insurance premiums, energy costs and ...
WQCS News
Funding a Clean Energy Future and More Than Just a Zoo
Listen on WQCS Fort Pierce – Friday January 27, 2023: This week on In Focus, with IRSC Public Media, Doug Coward, Executive Director of the Solar ...
WQCS News
SELF, the Nation’s First Local Green Bank, Celebrates $30 Million in Projects Financed
WQCS | By WQCS Published January 13, 2023, at 3:00 AM EST Fort Pierce, Fla., Friday January 13th, 2023 – SELF, a non-profit solar and energy loan fund, is ...
Press Releases
April 4, 2024
Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF) Coalition Partners Awarded $15 Billion to Bring Clean Energy, Green Building, and Zero-Emissions Transportation to Disadvantaged Communities
The Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF), America’s first local, hybrid non-profit Green Bank and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), announced today that its coalition partners have been awarded a total of $15.2 billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
October 13, 2023
The Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF) is the lead applicant of a Florida Coalition Bidding for $250 million from the EPA’s, “Solar for All” fund, to help Lower Energy Bills With Rooftop Solar for Thousands of Floridians.
The women-led coalition seeks to make residential solar energy affordable for low-income and disadvantaged communities across the state.
July 25, 2023
SELF, America’s First Community Development Green Bank, Launches the “Southern Climate Equity Accelerator”
A first cohort of nascent green funds joined this new regional initiative led by SELF to prepare for the deployment of federal funds that aim ...
July 12, 2023
Solar and Energy Loan Fund and Georgia Hispanic Construction Association Forge Partnership to Drive Economic, Environmental, and Financial Equity
ATLANTA (June 26, 2023) – The Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF) and the Georgia Hispanic Construction Association (GHCA) have forged a partnership to support ...
June 26, 2023
SELF Receives Second Grant from Opportunity Finance Network’s Finance Justice Fund
For Immediate ReleaseJune 26, 2023 The Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF), America’s first local green bank and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), announced today ...
February 24, 2023
SELF RECEIVES INVESTMENT, GRANT FROM LEON LOWENSTEIN FOUNDATION
Funding helps support novice and minority developers of affordable housing FORT PIERCE, Fla., Feb. 24, 2023 – The Solar and Energy Loan Fund (SELF), America’s ...
Announcements
July 11, 2023
March 17, 2023
Media Contacts
Doug Coward,
Executive Director
dougc@solarenergyloanfund.org
(772) 468‐1818
Li Cohen,
Communications Director
lcohen@solarenergyloanfund.org
(772) 2766724
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