Course curriculum

    1. Energy Efficiency Funding Opportunities

    2. QUIZ: Energy Efficiency Funding Opportunities for Charter Schools

About this course

  • $75.00
  • 1 hour of video content

What You'll Learn

Explore options for budget savings

Energy Efficiency Funding Opportunities

With the recently passed clean energy infrastructure legislation - both locally and nationally - MN charter schools have the opportunity to update failing facility structures with beautiful, learner-friendly, physical environments that also lower energy bills. Join Katie Piehl, Founder of Bloomwise Partners, as she shares opportunities you’ve been missing on facility upgrade financing options for charter schools. Programs like the IRA’s noncompetitive Elective Pay Clean Energy Tax Credit offset energy upgrades by 30% or more. Instead of a tax credit, the IRS mails you a check! (Yup, you read that right). We’ll discuss funding opportunities you may not have considered available through the Dept of Energy, IRS, Dept of Transportation, and the EPA. Opportunities to put EV charging stations at your school, solar panels on your rooftop, and new windows, lighting, or insulation to improve indoor air quality. If it saves you on your energy bill, there’s a grant for that.

Instructor(s)

Education Consultant Katie Piehl

Katie Piehl Education Consultant Systems design and social impact are common throughlines in her work - from working with the MN Legislature on public systems evaluations to work in the nonprofit sector innovating on our far-from-perfect model of public education. Katie has held leadership roles at Volunteers of America, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), and Wildflower Schools. At Wildflower, Katie designed, launched, and expanded Wildflower’s charter school micro-school model -- the first of its kind micro-school model in the nation -- and expanded this work to five regions, nationally. Prior to Wildflower, she led NACSA’s strategic initiative to significantly improve the authorizing practices of 10 of the nation’s largest authorizers collectively overseeing more than 1600 charter schools serving more than 650,000 students. And with the MN state Office of the Legislative Auditor, Katie co-authored a watershed evaluation of charter schools in Minnesota and advocated for significant changes in MN charter law that led to landmark legislation and best in nation rating of state charter laws. Katie is committed to designing and activating strategies to make our world a better place for future generations and to contribute constructively to solving some of the world's most challenging problems. She studied Economics in undergrad with a focus on environmental and social-economic issues and has a Masters in Public Policy and a certificate in Program Evaluation from the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. Katie loves experiencing every season of living in Minnesota with her husband, four children, and a sprightly hamster.