Financing the Solutions Framework: How Mountain Communities Fund Climate Action

A practical capital playbook for mountain towns ready to move past the funding wish list.

Mountain communities have already done the hard work of figuring out what climate solutions work. The harder question is how to pay for them — with lean staff, seasonal revenue, high infrastructure costs, and intense competition for limited grant funds.

Join Council Fire, a global sustainability consultancy and award-winning B Corp led by a team with decades of experience in climate resilience and grant funding for public-sector clients, for a 45-minute session followed by live Q&A. We’ll cover how to stack public and private capital, and how revenue tools like value capture, resilience fees, special assessment districts, bonds, and tourism-linked mechanisms can fund deployment year over year. We’ll also touch on regional collaboration and structuring projects to attract investment, and preview a resilience-portfolio tool we’ve built for municipal clients that tracks and matches projects against funding sources.

You’ll leave with financing approaches matched to mountain-town realities, and a clearer sense of where to start.

What we’ll cover:

• The mountain-town financing gap, and why standard playbooks don’t fit

• Stacking revenue & financing mechanisms
• Regional collaboration to attract investment
• A look at our resilience-funding planning and tracking tool

• Live Q&A

Presented by Kristen Keene, Holly Fowler, and George Chmael II, Council Fire —  August 12, 11:00a-12:00p MT