Leverage Current Government Spending on Environmental and Energy Initiatives
Boost business, increase customer services and promote sound environmental building...
One of EIA's most popular courses! Our Sustainability Incentives for Your Business workshop is a unique, comprehensive all-day training designed to help building professionals understand and immediately apply federal, state, and local sustainability dollars toward growing their business and providing enhanced professional customer service.
After completing this 8-hour intensive training, you will be able to answer the following questions:
- What is the green industry?
- What are green funding initiatives and how do I go about getting them?
- How can I apply these opportunities toward my business?
- What are the costs of entering this new market or adding it as a part of my business?
- How can I successfully market these incentives and savings to my customers?
- Acquire the knowledge and tools that help them move ahead in the construction business
- Learn about local,national and global regulations and legislation affecting them
- Walk away with an actionable business plan to use immediately in seeking sustainability dollars
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We are committed to building long term relationships by providing education that ensures your success. Sustainability Incentives for Your Business workshop is designed to provide informatoin, tools and resources you can use to effectively research all available tax, energy and other "sustainable" incentives that can benefit you and your customers. If you feel the workshop failed to deliver as promised, simply return all course materials before leaving, and EIA will refund your money in full within 30 days.
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Learn How to Get Stimulus for Sustainability
Click below to see the topics covered in this 1-day class:
Understand the Organizations Behind the Opportunity
   You'll begin by learning the programs and the funding available:
- Department of Energy
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Housing and Urban Development
- State Energy Commissions
- United States Green Building Council
- Local Governments for Sustainability
- Energy Star
- Regional Non-Profits, such as Build It Green
 Learn How to Tap Into Tax Credits
There are plentiful tax credits for a multitude of different sustainability initiatives. You'll learn how to capture these incentives for your own company and pass them on to customers.
- Whole Home Retrofitting
- Energy Efficiency Upgrades (tripled & extended!)
- Commercial Lighting Retrofits
- Commercial Building Efficiency Upgrades
- Pass-through Deductions
- Historic Preservation
- New Rebates & Credits for Solar
- ...and more!
 Discover How to Access Funding Through Partnerships
- Brownfield Restoration
- Public Housing Development & Modernization
- Affordable Housing Weatherization
- Home Investment Partners Program
- Office of Affordable Housing Preservation
- Neighborhood Stabilization
- ...and more!
 Take Advantage of Rebates for You & Your Customers
- Energy Star Rebates
- Utility Driven Rebates
- EPA WaterSense
- ...and more!
 Conservation Agency Incentives
- California Cool Roofs
- Rebates for Cooling & Heating Equipment
- Lighting
- Appliances
- Remodeling
- ...and more!
Develop A Business Plan to Capture Sustainability Funding
In this course, you will develop a customized, actionable business plan for capturing funding related to sustainability and the stimulus program. Once you know the players, the programs and the funding available, we'll show you how to determine which opportunities are best suited for your business and how to become eligible:
- Understand the Affiliations, Memberships and Qualifications that help businesses and their employees address green programs
- Audit your business to understand which programs you can address, as well as which opportunities you may be able to adapt for
- Develop a Plan that outlines which opportunities you will address, the interfaces to tap into funding, and the steps to successful funding
Learn How to Find and Market to Your Best New Customers
Once you have identified the Green Funding opportunities matching your organization, we'll show you how to find the best customers for these initiatives and proven marketing techniques for sustainability projects:
- Project management guidelines that help ensure success
- Seven Proven Keys to Marketing Green Buildings and messages that work
- Learn how to identify and access channels in your local area
- How to successfully structure compelling offers
Everything You Need to Put Stimulus and Sustainability Incentives to Work
The class includes 8-hours of interactive instruction and extensive course materials that continue to provide value long after the workshop is complete. Our 400-page text book of research materials worth over $100, but is included free with your enrollment!
With this course, you receive:
- All presentation materials
- 10 Case Studies for Energy Star, Green Buildings, and successful businesses who have captured sustainability incentives.
- Detailed explanations of critical programs:Federal EPA, DOE, HUD and other agency programs
- State and Local Programs
- Utility Programs
- Instructions and Forms for Listed Programs
- Business Plan Kit – A template filled out over the course of the workshop that results in a business plan to obtain sustainability incentives
The Best Place to Start Building a Green Business
There are no prerequisites for this course. There is no better option for getting a business-oriented perspective of today's sustainability issues and opportunities.
If you are interested in pursuing a career in sustainability, this course will jump start your efforts with a broad view of sustainability issues and calculated next steps for your future development.
If you are a building-related business owner, it is imperative that you take this course to maintain your competitiveness as sustainability and green building take a large role in your industry! Even if you are a LEED AP who has participated in green building for years, you will benefit from learning about the numerous programs that make your green knowledge more valuable than ever.
Continuing Education Credits
EIA's Sustainability Incentives workshop qualifies for continuing education credit with the following organizations:
- InterNACHI: 8 Hours
- AIA: 8 HSW/SD Units
- USGBC / GBCI (LEED): 8 Hours
Continuing education credits may be available for additional credentialing programs. Check with your organization about eligibility requirements. Each course comes with a certificate of completion, enabling you to file for credit.
  
"Tapping Stimulus Incentives for Your Business" really opened my eyes about how varied and plentiful the opportunities are, and not just for my core business. I can visualize add-on services for my current remodeling business and possibly even starting another business in a related area. I am looking forward to the next offering from EIA soon."
Jeff Talmadge
General Contractor
Talmadge Construction
“EIA gave me the confidence to take the most important step to obtain Stimulus incentives - the first one.”
Cathy William
VP Sales & Marketing
Green Building Coaches
“I would highly recommend taking the Tapping Stimulus Incentives for your Business course from Environmental Institute of America [tapping stimulus incentives] they show you countless opportunities to grow your business in ways you would never know about. The instructors are very knowledgeable in all of the incentives programs. All of the materials will be very useful for many years.”
Jeff Maggi
General Contractor
Maggi Construction
“If you want insight to going after the stimulus money, then this course is a must”.
Lisa B. Lambka
VP of Sales and Marketing
The Fixit Team, Inc.
"This course opened my eyes to new ways to expand my business and new revenue flows."
Brent Stewart
Stewart Construction Services
"This course helped me to focus on both the resources & the path of travel toward expanding my business into green consulting."
William Pettus
Architect
"A lot of good information! Went home with a lot of future reference material."
Ted Holmes
President
Holmes, Inc.
" Thank you. Great class!"
Patrice Greene
President - Dzignit
Who Can Benefit from Sustainability and Stimulus Incentives?
As one of our most popular courses, we've found that many, many professionals find value in learning about the financial incentives behind sustainability initiatives. If you own or manage a small business, you must become familar with these programs to gain strategic advantage, or risk falling behind others who will use them to get ahead!
This course provides substantial benefit for:
- Anyone interested in Promoting
Sustainability
- Architects
- Building Operators
- Civil Engineers
- Commercial Landscape Architects
- Commissioners
- Energy Managers
- Facility Managers
- General Contractors
- Home Inspectors
- HUD Developers
- HVAC Specialists
- Interior Construction Professionals
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- Interior Decorators
- Interior Designers
- Mechanical Engineers
- New Construction Managers
- Non-Profit Directors
- Policy Makers
- Property Managers
- Real Estate Developers
- Residential Architects
- Residential Contractors
- Residential Landscape Architects
- Structural Engineers
- Sustainability Consultants
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About the Instructor: Kelly Gearhart
Kelly Gearhart’s passion for enhancing the sustainability of the built construction environment has driven her career into green building. An active member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Gearhart participates in activities promoting green building including education, outreach, and consulting. Focused on the triple bottom line, Gearhart works to improve the economic, environmental, and social outcomes of her clients’ building projects.
Gearhart is currently working on an office building seeking LEED Gold certification, a public school seeking LEED Silver certification, the successful adoption of Local Government Toolkits supporting California’s carbon reduction goals, and the development of green building courses for the University of California, Berkeley.
Across the U.S. and internationally, Gearhart has served as the LEED project administrator on 22 LEED projects and as a consultant on over 65 LEED projects for clients including Atlanta Public Schools, IKEA, The Lovett School, Southwest High School, Southface Energy Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, W.W. Grainger, Philips Arena, Callaway Gardens, and the YMCA. Gearhart has worked on projects ranging from LEED Certified to LEED Platinum using rating systems including LEED for new construction and major renovations, existing buildings: operations and maintenance, schools, core & shell, commercial interiors, homes and retail.
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