The Environmental Finance Center at Syracuse University is tasked by the EPA with facilitating the development of sustainable communities.  As an affiliated center with the Syracuse Center of Excellence, the EFC-SU leverages more than 200 SyracuseCoE partners to connect local government officials and private organizations with technical assistance, assessment tools, and funding offered by a large network of collaborators and resources.  EFC also provides professional training and community outreach to engage, educate, and enable the public to make their own change toward improved environmental infrastructure and quality of life.

The Environmental Finance Center at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York serves the two states and two territories of the EPA Region 2: New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The EFC-SU focuses on advancing sustainable communities through Rural Leadership Development, Infrastructure Education and Outreach Tools, and University-Community Collaborations.

An EFC-SU project that recently represented these areas of focus was the development of rain gardens in the city of Oswego and the Village of Fairhaven in Central New York.

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