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Four Ways to Help Ensure Your Restoration Project is Investment-Ready: Insights from Maycomb Capital
Discover how small environmental restoration firms can scale their impact and earn revenue through outcomes-based funding like Pay for Success (PFS) contracts. In our latest feature, we talk with Maycomb Capital—a women-owned impact investing firm—about how they use flexible, mission-aligned financing to support projects that deliver measurable results for underserved communities. Learn what funders look for and how to secure the capital you need to launch your next high-impact initiative.
Trellis: Why Norfolk Southern restored a 1,500-foot stretch of Virginia shoreline
The Next 55 Earth Days
An Abundance of Nature
EPIC champions a bold approach to environmental restoration, aligning with the Abundance mindset by streamlining wetland restoration, leveraging technology, and using pay-for-success models. By focusing on outcomes over process, EPIC aims to make nature restoration faster, scalable, and impactful—ensuring clean air, water, and ecosystems are abundant and accessible.
EPIC and Maryland Department of Environment Announce $47 Million in Clean Water Commerce Funding for Chesapeake Bay Health, Economy and Recreation
“A Good Program in Theory”: Opportunities for Administrative Improvements to USDA’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program
The Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) and the next Farm Bill
How Donald Trump or Kamala Harris should spend a billion dollars at USDA
Sandboxing Nature in Maryland Handout
How could Maryland legislators build a sandbox for nature to accelerate restoration?
From Law to Legacy: Early Wins of Maryland's Conservation Finance Act
Since enacting the Conservation Finance Act in 2022, Maryland agencies have begun to implement it and attract greater private investment in conservation.
Case Studies of Performance-based RCPP Projects
The US Department of Agriculture has contracted at least seven RCPP projects that used performance-based payments to buy environmental outcomes. This report profiles their challenges and successes.
New paper: USDA is already buying environmental outcomes…kinda
New Paper: Optimizing Payment Schedules in Pay for Success Contracts
A Balancing Act: Optimizing Payment Schedules in Environmental Pay for Success Contracts
40 Senate Farm Bill Provisions to Get Excited About
40 provisions from the Senate’s Farm Bill draft to get excite about.
Unlocking Pay for Success for Environmental Outcomes: Answering the Top FAQs
USDA can now help small producers participate in environmental markets. Should it?
Should USDA start competing as a seller in the ecosystem services market?
President Biden and Freshwater
USDA Funding Ready to Pay Maryland Oyster Farmers for Nitrogen Reductions
EPIC announces execution of contracts to pay oyster farmers for nitrogen reductions.
