About Us
Our Team
One Green Home is a campaign sponsored by Bridge Private Lending focused on introducing green practices to run-down or abandoned rowhouses in Baltimore City. Together with green building expert Prescott Gaylord, our contractors are adapting green techniques to low budgets and working to bring new technologies and practices to everyone.
Our techniques aren’t fancy – we mostly just pay close attention and use common sense. Our practices can save renters and owners almost 50 percent on their energy bills, and will provide long term benefits to the community.
Bridge Private Lending is a private investment firm that specializes in socially responsible underwriting. We finance the purchase and rehabilitation of homes in low and moderate income neighborhoods, where demand for units is strong but institutional sources of financing are scarce.
David Borinsky, the founder and managing member of Bridge Private Lending, LLC, has been doing environmental work since 1974, when he co-chaired his college chapter of Friends of the Earth. He received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Virginia and his LL.M. in Federal income taxation from New York University, where he was awarded a Wallace Scholarship and served as an editor of The Tax Law Review. He now serves on the board of the US Green Building Council.
Andrew Kreinik is a partner in Smith Growth Strategies, a consulting firm known for its growth development strategies for small and mid size businesses. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario and received his MBA from Thunderbird School of International Management. A certified EcoAssociate with a real estate license, he serves as a member of the Coastal Climate Change Insurance Advisory Committee for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance.
Prescott Gaylord works as the consultant on One Green Home projects. He is the co-founder and president of Baltimore Green Construction. He gives workshops and lectures on green construction and constructability, and is consulting the One Green Home’s rehabbers on how to make low-budget renovations green. His company, Baltimore Green Construction won a ‘Best of Baltimore’ award in 2008 from Baltimore Magazine for its work on green construction. He is a board member of the Maryland Chapter of the US Green Building Council.
Anna Moorefield, as content manager, maintains the One Green Home at a Time blog and supplies any and all written content requested. As a general project coordinator, she collaborates with other members of the One Green Home staff on community initiatives, coordinates all paperwork pertaining to LEED certification, and facilitates communication among One Green Home builders and their green building consultants. Anna obtained degrees in English Literature and Film from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to her involvement with One Green Home at a Time, she worked for various private marketing consultants and a film festival or two as a copy-editor and writer.
Read the blog for neighborhood news, tips on affordability & green, and more
Our Most Recent Posts
- Our Youth ::: 09/06/10
Check out the above pics, taken by our community initiative leader Yvette Chambers-El, of some of our local youth working in Oliver. If you’re in the neighborhood, feel free to ask them questions about some of our latest endeavors– they’re always ready and willing to answer.
- Baltimore Street Art ::: 08/30/10
Perusing the NRDC blog I came across yet another interesting post by Kaid Benfield, this one citing the value of street art as a means of enlivening urban streetscapes. I immediately began scouring the web for images of street art in our own city, and I wasn’t disappointed. Unsurprisingly there’s a huge underground culture devoted to the format—the blog “Steady”, along with several independently maintained Flickr accounts, testify to the strength of an art that most city-goers take for granted.
- Buying Into Baltimore 2010 ::: 08/26/10
Check out the above press release detailing changes to this year’s Live Baltimore “Buying into Baltimore” event.
Come Home Baltimore
Bridge Private Lending, LP
Mainstream Media
Press Release: A+ Neighborhood Homebuyers
August 2009
Green house effect
August 2009 | Baltimore Magazine
Green home initiative hits city
July 4–10, 2009 | The Baltimore Afro American
Investors back green rehabs
June 19, 2009 | The Baltimore Sun
Bridge Private Lending teams on 'green' neighborhood push in Baltimore
June 18, 2009 | The Baltimore Business Journal
Affordable housing in Baltimore goes green
June 18, 2009 | abc2news.com
More energy efficient homes hit Baltimore
June 12, 2009 | abc2news.comm
A greener Baltimore
June 5–11, 2009 | Baltimore Business Journal
David Borinsky
David Borinsky is the chief executive officer of Bridge Private Lending.
Mr. Borinsky, a lawyer, served as the chairman of the tax department at a law firm with large real estate and financial services practices before founding Bridge Private Lending in 2006. As a lawyer, he lectured and wrote frequently on nonprofits, business planning and real estate. He has also served on the Maryland State Bar ethics committee. He received his college and law degrees from the University of Virginia and a masters degree from New York University School of Law.
In addition to his full time duties as CEO of Bridge Private Lending, he is at work on a book on philanthropy targeted at entrepreneurs. The introduction is here and a draft chapter (on board governance) is here.
Learn more at www.davidborinsky.com.
