CLF Ventures

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Contact: Bill Coleman 617-850-1775

"The CLFV team worked with multiple stakeholders to build a common understanding around project opportunities and hurdles. This helped us develop a project plan and move forward effectively." - Project Manager, Amerada Hess Corporation

Our Skill Set

Our Value

CLF Ventures is a unique organization that inhabits the intersection of business, stakeholder, and environmental matters. Our distinct value to our clients is two-fold:

We acquire valuable stakeholder insights that are often impossible for our clients to collect on their own.

We develop and implement innovative solutions to our clients' problems by effectively blending these insights with our technical, regulatory, and planning expertise.

By working with CLF Ventures, you signal to stakeholders that your project will meet environmental requirements. This is a powerful message that accelerates your project to a successful conclusion.

Our Key Capabilities

CLF Ventures uses its valuable assets to create strategies and solve problems:

Our environmental reputation and non-profit status, which legitimize our clients' projects

Our experience in, and connection to, the business sector, such as launching the Environmental Insurance Agency

Our solid relationships with local, state, and federal regulatory and political stakeholders

Our combined private and public sector expertise

Our Services

At CLF Ventures, we provide clients with a range of value-laden services to meet business goals and objectives.

Stakeholder Management
CLF Ventures helps clients optimize their stakeholder relationships with regulators, community groups and elected officials. CLFV staff understands the complex social and environmental contexts around controversies. We have combined this skill with our technical expertise to develop a respected practice in resolving community-based conflicts around environmental issues. We solve our clients' problems by leveraging our environmental reputation and non-profit status to build a positive relationship between our clients and the larger stakeholder community.

Technical Analysis
Our team possesses a wide range and depth of expertise and project experience that is grounded by a solid foundation in quantitative analyses.

Project Planning and Strategy
By assisting clients with their project planning and strategy development, CLF Ventures promotes project integrity, creates positive community relations, and upholds commitments to social and environmental principles. Our team has the planning expertise to make projects run smoothly.

Regulatory and Policy Guidance
Regulatory approvals are key prerequisites for every project. Policy issues may also impact project success. CLF Ventures blends detailed knowledge of these two fields to produce strategies that help our clients launch and implement successful projects.

Impasse Resolution
When projects reach a point of impasse, CLF Ventures works closely with the involved parties to resolve the issue and move the negotiations towards closure. We foster trust and legitimacy, facilitating dialogue and aligning stakeholder interests to drive projects to a successful outcome. We un-stick stuck projects.

Marketing and Funds Development
We combine our reputation and non-profit status, our extensive knowledge of environmental issues, and our business acumen - which includes launching the Environmental Insurance Agency - to offer valuable assistance to companies that benefit from access to green markets.