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Vice President of Green Initiatives
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
410.772.2516
Dana Bourland is vice president of green initiatives for Enterprise and leads environmental strategy for the national organization. She oversees all aspects of Enterprise’s national award-winning Green Communities program from strategic planning and program development to evaluation and public policy advocacy, including the next generation of this initiative focused on greening all affordable housing within the next decade. Dana works with Enterprise’s financial affiliates to package and integrate the delivery of various forms of project financing to Enterprise Green Communities developments, including equity investments and predevelopment loans. She also serves as managing director of the Enterprise Green Communities Offset Fund.
Dana previously worked for the Maryland Department of Planning, where she implemented and collaborated with other state agencies and national organizations on Smart Growth-related policies, including a Smart Growth fund, Port Land Use, Smart Codes, transit oriented development and the management of a statewide infrastructure needs analysis. Prior to the Maryland Department of Planning, Dana worked on poverty reduction strategies in communities across an eight-state region with the Northwest Area Foundation.
A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Dana holds a master’s degree in planning from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, and is a graduate of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s Program in Real Estate. She is a certified planner through the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), a LEED Accredited Professional, a juror for the Washington Smart Growth Alliance Smart and Sustainable Growth Recognition Program, and serves on the Affordable Housing Finance Editorial Advisory Board and the Affordable Comfort Board of Directors. Dana was recently named one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Influential Women Activists in Technology” and a 2009 Young Leader by Affordable Housing Finance. She is also featured in the book Becoming an Urban Planner: A Guide to Careers in Planning and Urban Design, and is included as faculty in Fast Company’s 30-second MBA program.
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