How can communities come together to prioritize land conservation goals and create a funding stream to actualize those goals?

Welcome special guest speaker, Carli Fraccarolli, Government Relations Manager at Scenic Hudson, during a Funding Futures session open to the public. Carli defines the community preservation plan and fund and its relationship to the real estate transfer tax. She’ll get into the process of pursuing these tools and what has motivated some Hudson Valley towns to enact them.

Funding Futures: Together We Decide is a new training and grant program from Partners for Climate Action. Six Funding Futures Fellows, each from a different town, will learn how to work with their communities to set ecological goals and find funding for them. During the one-year process, our cohort participates in a pilot training and support program to organize community conversations in their towns around environmental priorities.

Bio:

Carli Fraccarolli has extensive experience in government relations and environmental advocacy, currently serving as the Government Relations Manager at Scenic Hudson, Inc. since May 2019. Prior roles at Scenic Hudson include State Policy Manager, State Policy Coordinator, and Advocacy Associate. Previous experience includes a position as Database Assistant at the New York Natural Heritage Program, where Carli specialized in invasive species data management and user interface evaluation. Additional roles include Media and Communications Intern at Cornell Small Farms Program, Co-President of the Epsilon Eta sustainability fraternity, Water System Designer with Cornell University Sustainable Design for a project in Ghana, and involvement in the Cornell University Student Assembly's environmental policy initiatives. Carli holds a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Environmental and Sustainability Sciences from Cornell University.