CSP provides advisory, strategy, and direct implementation support to community lenders, public agencies, Solar for All (SFA) grantees, and affordable housing developers. Through policy, program design, and practice, we create systems change solutions that have long-lasting social equity and environmental impacts. Click below for more details on how we can help you.
Community Lending Advisory
CSP provides technical assistance, tools, and training to community lenders to create effective climate lending strategies.
Benefits of Partnering with CSP
- Enhancing your agency’s capacity and ability to move more quickly
- Getting real-time feedback from key stakeholders in real estate and LMI communities
- Deep experience in financial modeling to achieve low-income program goals
- Team with extensive experience in real estate finance and affordable housing
Our Services
Program Design & Strategy
- Climate Lending Strategy – produce a long-term plan and tracking for green financing considering internal goals and capacity along with external opportunity and resources
- Compliance and Equity – recommended strategies for program design to meet compliance requirements and equity goals
- Program Design Strategy – Stakeholder feedback, market analysis, compliance requirements, and equity goals, into final program design and term sheets
- Implementation Plan and Customized Toolkit – Develop the long-term plan to implement the program design, including administration, staffing, and compliance, along with customized tools to implement programs
Capacity Building & Training
- Training – Training on specific program design elements, including application process, compliance, internal capacity needs, financial analysis, and customized tools
- Internal Capacity Building – Identify skills needed in-house, activities to be performed in-house, and activities that will require consultants
- Technical Assistance to Clients – Provide solar scoping, financial modeling and tools to developers to understand how products can be incorporated into capital stack.
Securing Capital & Product Development
- Building Financial Models for each product offering, illustrating return on investment
- Creating a Program-level Proforma to track long-term success and return on investment
- Market Analysis – engaging stakeholders and customers to get feedback on potential product offerings
- CCIA Application Support – Identify eligible activities under CCIA that are additive to a business model and draft business/deployment plans essential to those applications
- Assessment and Alignment with Product Offering – assessment of loan products, with goal of matching and integrating products
- Financial Analysis – perform financial analysis on potential program design decisions
Pipeline Development
- Pipeline Development – pipeline assessment to access green funding/GGRF capital and other available resources
- Market Navigation and Deal Support – Provide support from deal origination through closing and asset management