This model for generating community project submissions, evaluating them, organizing financing and donations, training a new generation of leaders, and impacting the community is completely replicable and scalable. Building high performance homes in rural Maine is a niche within a niche. Many clients are out of staters building their second or third home. There are plenty of builders in the area equipped to build a mansion in the mountains, which makes the prospective client pool even smaller. Two single-family homes built according to Passive House principles on a 9-12 month time scale each year will never make the impact that our planet desperately needs. How can a small construction company with good intentions turn a successful business model into a vehicle for change? This session provides two active examples of community project financials and impacts, as well as a budgeted model for creating an employee-run Community Project Steering Committee. It describes the business case for making positive change. Benefits include: increased employee retention and company buy-in; attracting new and diverse employees in a difficult labor market; expanding and diversifying project leads in an unstable economy; and drumming up increased customer interest while providing a win-win for all members of the community. These Community Projects are the gateway to giving more people access to sound, healthy, low-carbon buildings. The session also provides a basic analysis on the carbon impact of the retrofit performed on this existing commercial structure, and explores what’s next for the Community Project Initiative. The Community Project Initiative is a replicable model that building companies of all sizes could implement in their annual budget and planning with minimal costs and many benefits.