Mercy Community Capital | Sustainability Grant Program Development

Lotus worked with Mercy Community Capital (MCC), a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides funding for affordable housing projects to develop a sustainability grant program. This program would allow funding recipients to receive small grants to enable the implementation of sustainable practices into affordable housing construction or retrofit projects. Lotus engaged with MCC and other similar organizations to understand where and how sustainability grant funding would be most effective. By leveraging MCC’s existing Salesforce and loan application systems Lotus created a full suite of grant guidelines, application questions, and a reporting and verification framework. This work will enable affordable housing projects to incorporate sustainable practices providing environmental benefits as well as energy or water cost savings for residents.