Our Services
Community Outreach and Engagement
Development, evaluation, and implementation of community outreach and engagement strategy and methods.
Streamlined community benefit plan proposal writing for state, federal, and private projects
Carbon Solutions supports defining and developing engagement strategies that integrate our technical knowledge and engagement experience to align project objectives, communication activities, and project development timelines.
Stakeholder Identification & Engagement Planning
We provide stakeholder maps, landscape analysis, and engagement strategies for projects across all stages of development.ย
Defining Engagement Goals
Each project requires integrating short- and long-term project goals with community interests and needs. Carbon Solutions can help your company define how engagement fits into your project, balancing local, state, and federal economic, environmental, and social impact analysis with engagement and outreach.
Facilitation & Education
We provide facilitation and education support, including community meetings, workshops, and outreach on clean energy and decarbonization technologies, with expertise in emerging solutions like direct air capture (DAC) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR).
FAQs
Learn more about how we can help your organization with Community Outreach and Engagement.
What community, stakeholder, and labor engagement services does Carbon Solutions provide?
Carbon Solutions staff understand the nuance of project-tailored engagement objectives aligned with technical project milestones. We have both led and supported engagement for federal and infrastructure project development, as well as provided longer-term, custom solutions to serve engagement needs for a variety of carbon management technologies. Our expertise spans a range of engagement needs, such as providing guidance and advising to assess a projectโs stakeholder and engagement needs, developing custom engagement activities, directly implementingย community engagement, organizing and facilitating Advisory boards, and evaluating completed engagement activities. We welcome you to schedule a conversation with one of our staff to help us uncover your unique project needs together.ย
Do you help with proposal writing?
Yes! Our team is well-versed in grant writing for a variety of funding sources, including the federal government, non-profits, and carbon credit programs. In this quickly evolving space, our agile team can integrate your big picture project goals with the specific requirements of grant reporting, milestones, and deliverables.
How do you evaluate, monitor, and report who receives the benefits of a project?
A critical component of many non-profit and carbon credit programs is defining economic, social, and environmental impacts of each technology. We have experience both determining evaluation metrics, helping oversee ongoing evaluation, and aligning these outcomes to final reporting requirements. We have an array of tools and datasets at our disposal to tailor project activities and deliverables to an established set of desired project benefits and outcomes.ย
How do you support implementation and beyond?
Once a project is ready to start, we also provide administrative and executive support throughout all phases of implementation, reporting, and evaluation. Engagement implementation is project-specific; to accommodate diverse project needs, our engagement toolkit provides a generous array of custom engagement opportunities including information sharing (in-person and virtual), facilitated discussion and focus groups, community outreach surveys, developing communication plans and supplementary materials, and more.ย
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Our Community Outreach and Engagement Projects
Carbon Solutions has supported stakeholder identification, community outreach planning, and economic and environmental assessment activities in communities nationwide, and understands there is no one-size-fits-all solution to outreach and engagement.
Our Team
Specialists in Community Outreach and Engagement
Erin Middleton
President
Erin has a background in geology, geography, demography, education, and evaluation, and works on projects that integrate qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
She supports community engagement and infrastructure modeling at Carbon Solutions.
Jessi Eidbo
Director of Engagement
Jessi has a multidisciplinary background in environmental sciences, policy, management, and urban and regional planning.
She supports the deployment of decarbonization technologies through an understanding of local community opportunities and impacts.
Veronica Wilde
Research Scientist
Veronica has a multidisciplinary background spanning business and the energy sector, with a proven ability to unite diverse stakeholder groups and drive collaboration.
She provides project support and helps build strategic partnerships that advance organizational objectives and create lasting, positive impacts on community development.
Qasim Mehdi
Research Scientist
Qasim has a background in public administration, environmental economics, policy, and data analysis.
He works on projects related to hydrogen, decarbonization infrastructure, and community benefits plans.
Client testimonials
Richard and the rest of the team at Carbon Solutions are top-notch researchers and commercialization experts. REI looks forward to continuing to work with CS in the future and continuing to identify and solve the technical challenges involved with bringing next-generation energy solutions to industry.
Dave Swenson
Co-President
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