Nora Bloch is the Senior Policy Manager at the Massachusetts Community Climate Bank. In this role, she focuses on building and deepening partnerships among and between public agencies,
investors, funders, developers and community leaders – all with the goal of supporting projects and programs aligned with the Commonwealth’s mandate to reach net zero emissions by 2050. She is leading the multifamily affordable housing program component of MA Solar For All award from the EPA on behalf of MCCB and MassHousing.
Prior to this role, she served as an Initiative Director at the Center for Community Investment, where she designed, presented and facilitated field building programs and workshops for individuals, organizations, and multisector teams working to create equitable, effective investment systems. Additionally, she coached participants navigating adaptive challenges to use system thinking and financial tools to create equitable solutions.
Previously, Nora spent 18 years as a community development lender, first at Eastern Bank (formerly Wainwright Bank), and then as a Senior Lender at BlueHub Capital (formerly Boston Community Capital). She developed and implemented new loan products to meet evolving community needs, including loans for community facilities, commercial economic development projects, healthy food financing, and affordable housing.
Nora was in the inaugural cohort of CCI’s Fulcrum Fellows and Field Catalyst leadership development programs and was in the 2023 cohort of the Emergent Learning Training Institute. She
is a graduate of Grinnell College and holds a Master’s degree in Public and Private Management from Yale University. She lives in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston with her family.
