Communication
CLF Ventures strengthens our clients’ ability to identify and navigate critical stakeholder issues—both risks and opportunities—by helping organizations understand their target audience and adapting critical messaging to effectively address important topics. As a trusted non-profit, we meet community stakeholders on their terms and speak their language. Most importantly, we know how to listen. In doing so, we help bridge the “trust gulf” and obtain valuable information about stakeholder interests, which is then brought back to the client and, where possible, incorporated into strategy and decision-making.
Specific services include:
- Stakeholder Engagement
CLF Ventures helps clients optimize their relationships with regulators, community groups, and elected officials to advance important projects. Using information we elicit about stakeholder needs and positions, we can help strategically and creatively align innovative endeavors with the rapidly changing context in which companies and their stakeholders operate.
- Technical Communication
CLF Ventures has the ability to synthesize complex technical information and distill it for multi-stakeholder audiences with varied backgrounds. We communicate complex technical information clearly and provide the context to help diverse stakeholders understand its importance and meaning. CLF Ventures has demonstrated skills in managing large-scale writing and compilation projects that require synthesis of complex policy issues and incorporation of significant stakeholder feedback.
- Affinity Marketing
CLF Ventures combines our environmental and business knowledge to develop strategies that help companies market their green products or services with success. We use our understanding of environmental issues and our technical and scientific expertise to leverage the environmental benefits of products with green market segments. By identifying, verifying, and promoting these benefits, CLF Ventures helps our clients gain market share.
Related Success Stories
In 2007, CLF Ventures collaborated with the Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen’s Association (CCCHFA) to design and launch the Cape Cod Fisheries Trust (CCFT).
CLFV provided stakeholder outreach, information gathering, and user forum design/facilitation services to improve holistic water management in Vermont.
CLF Ventures made use of its experience launching renewable energy projects in New England to develop a manual for town officials and volunteer leaders that is essential for building community support for new facilities.
CLF Ventures introduced AES to a prospective site for its facility at a proposed eco-industrial park in Londonderry, New Hampshire, and advised AES on permitting strategy and ways to strengthen local support for the project.
PAYD insurance is designed to encourage drivers to reduce the amount of miles they drive, thereby saving money, reducing fossil fuel consumption, carbon emissions, and traffic congestion.
The goal of CLF Ventures' $2 million grant is to provide energy efficiency technical assistance to municipalities and counties in New Hampshire.
CLF Ventures helped Yankee Atomic Electric Energy Company with all non-radiological aspects of decommissioning the 160 MW Yankee Nuclear Power Station along the shores of Sherman Reservoir in Rowe, Massachusetts, including site closure, stakeholder outreach and communications, and property disposition.