Speaking Engagements
We are honored to have the opportunity to frequently share our expertise at both in-person and online events. A list of our team’s upcoming (and recent) speaking engagements is below. Contact Matt Lindsay if you would like to have a QV team member speak at your event.
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March 17: Ashley Lucht
Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: What is Readiness to Proceed?
March 5: Ashley Lucht
Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: What Is The Green Project Reserve (GPR)?
February 10: Ashley Lucht
Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: CWSRF Eligibilities
February 5: Ashley Lucht
Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: DWSRF Eligibilities
January 29: Susan Donovan & Chester Czuj
Virtual Symposium: Funding a Medical Respite Program for National Health Care for the Homeless Council
January 13: Ashley Lucht
Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: What Is An IUP?
January 8: Ashley Lucht
Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: How Do I Get Started?
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December 16: Ashley Lucht
Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: What is Predevelopment Funding?
December 6: Shaun O’Rourke
Spoke about "Accelerating Climate Investment: A Capital Stack Approach" at the Climate Adaptation Forum in Boston.
December 4: Ashley Lucht
Environmental Finance Center SRF Office Hours: What are the SRFS and What are the Pros and Cons?
October 18: Tee Thomas
Spoke about Innovative Conservation Finance Solutions at the Global Congress of the International Land Conservation Network.
October 7: Cailin O’Brien-Feeney
Spoke on a panel about "Financing Conservation through a Climate-Ready Outdoor Sector" at the 2024 Vermont Conservation Conference.
October 1: Tee Thomas
Spoke at the National Leadership Forum on Rural Development hosted by Outdoor Recreation Roundtable.
September 27: Amie Fleming
Land Trust Alliance's Rally 2024 - National Land Conservation Conference for the panel "How Maine Land Trusts Created a New Landowner"
September 26: Susan Donovan
Shared her thoughts on Social Drivers of Health interventions and alternative financing options for early-stage startups at Village Capital's LIFT: Accelerating Equitable Health Innovation 2024.
September 26: Shaun O'Rourke
Land Trust Alliance's Rally 2024 - National Land Conservation Conference on a panel titled "Strategies for Advancing Land Protection for Clean Water"
September 25: Tee Thomas
Climate Week NYC for the session “Financing the Green Transition: A Deep Dive into Climate Finance”
September 25: Shaun O'Rourke
Climate Week NYC on the panel, "Flipping the Switch for Forest Finance"
September 12-13: Chester Czuj
2024 California Recuperative Care Symposium
September 12: Susan Donovan
September 11: Tee Thomas
National Rural Water Association Water Pro Conference
September 10: Susan Donovan
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June: Tee Thomas
GreenBiz Group's GreenFin24 finance and investing event in New York City.
June: Matt Lindsay
"Creative Pathways to Market for Climate Enterprises" during the Halcyon Climate Fellows skills series in Washington, DC.
May: Alison Rein
Spoke on a panel during the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's "Investing for Well Being Design" Team Working Session.
April: Matthew Carney & Tee Thomas
Our team was in North Carolina for The Conservation Finance Network Roundtable. Matt provided roundtable participants with an update on implications and opportunities of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund awards and Tee led a panel discussion on developing a project pipeline for nature-based solutions.
April: Shaun O'Rourke
Joined an expert panel to talk "Funding City-Scale Resilience" at the Urban Land Institute’s Resilience Summit.
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February 7: Tee Thomas
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Policy Forum (speaking on financing nature-based solutions)
February 9: Tee Thomas
Virtual testimony before the Vermont legislature (speaking on the creation of a green bank and overall distribution of climate funds)
January 29: Alison Rein
Alison hosts a Catalyst Roundtable to discuss mobilizing capital to advance creative, cross-sector, and collaborative solutions that improve health equity and address social determinants of health at the Lutheran Services in America CEO Summit.
January 29: Chris Wolff
Chris will be presenting to a coalition of watershed restoration groups, municipalities, and NGOs in Arizona on the topic of leveraging Arizona State Revolving Funds for Natural Climate Solution (aka - Nature Based Solutions) projects as well as the need to stack innovative funding and financing to make paper projects become reality.
January 31: Chris Wolff
Chris presents a session at the Colorado Water Congress Annual Convention to educate organizations, NGOs, and partners on how to stack funding and financing approaches to catalyze and scale Nature-Based Solution projects in Colorado.
You can learn more about our prior speaking engagements - and get more QV news - in our QV e-newsletter archive:
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