About Us
Minnesota Green Communities is a collaboration of the Greater Minnesota Housing Fund, the Family Housing Fund, and Enterprise designed to foster the creation of affordable, healthier, and more energy efficient housing throughout Minnesota. The initiative supports the production of affordable housing with markedly reduced energy costs, use of materials beneficial to the environment, conservation-minded land use planning, and attention to the creation of healthy environments and lifestyles for individuals, children, families, and communities.

Partners
Minnesota Green Communities is a statewide collaboration of the Greater Minnesota Housing Fund, the Family Housing Fund, and Enterprise. The National Green Communities initiative is a five-year commitment by Enterprise to build more than 8,500 healthy, efficient homes for low-income people and make sustainable development the mainstream in the affordable housing industry.

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Membership of Minnesota Green Communities Advisory Committee
The Minnesota Green Communities Advisory Committee is a multidisciplinary team representing expertise in green building, affordable housing, community planning, environmental sustainability, real estate development, and health care.  The Minnesota Green Communities Advisory Committee works with the Minnesota Green Communities staff to implement the Minnesota Green Communities program.  The Committee provides input and guidance to the Minnesota Green Communities funding partners on ongoing program refinement and opportunities.  The Committee also identifies opportunities for information sharing, collaborates on best practices, incubates policy initiatives, and coordinates access to additional resources for the initiative. 

Chairs
Warren Hanson, Greater Minnesota Housing Fund
Tom Fulton, Family Housing Fund
Dana Bourland, Enterprise

- Erin Barnes-Driscoll, Environmental Assistance Division of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
- Corey Brinkema, The Green Institute
- John Carmody, Center for Sustainable Building Research
- Caren Dewar, Urban Land Institute and Dewar & Associates, Inc.
- Chip Halbach, Minnesota Housing Partnership
- Sandra Hall Henry, Xcel Energy
- Sarah Hernandez, McKnight Foundation
- Don Hickman, Initiative Foundation
- Dan Johnston, of American Lung Association Health House
- Michael Krause, Kandiyohi Development Partners
- Mike LeBeau, Conservation Technologies
- Han Lee, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency
- Alison Lindburg, Dovetail Partners, Inc.
- Jerry Nagel, Northern Great Plains, Inc. and GMHF Board member
- Michael Noble, Fresh Energy
- Dave Noval, Tree Trust
- Carolyn Olson, Greater Metropolitan Housing Corporation and Family Housing Fund Board Member
- Ron Price, Local Initiatives Support Corporation
- Chris Reed, Reed Energy, Inc.
- Tom Sagstetter, Great River Energy
- Tom Schirber, T.S. Consulting
- Jim Solem, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs and GMHF Board Member
- Dean Talbott, Minnesota Power
- Harold Teasdale, Minnesota Attainable Housing Corporation, Minnesota Brokerage Group
- Edward VonThoma, Buiding Knowledge, Inc.

Initiative Sponsors
Minnesota Green Communities would like to acknowledge the support of our core initiative funders who help make this initiative possible.

Blandin Foundation

Bush Foundation

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation

Travelers Foundation

The McKnight Foundation