Service Providers
About the Directory
The Connecticut Land Conservation Council (CLCC) Conservation Service Provider Directory provides a list of businesses, consultants, and contractors that have worked or have an interest in working with Connecticut land trusts.
Please note that while the following service providers are offered to assist Connecticut’s land conservation community, they are not meant to be exhaustive of either the types of services or the providers available to the public.
Important: Inclusion on a list is not an endorsement of any one or more of these service providers. We strongly recommend that before retaining the services of any service provider you ask for several references from land trusts and/or other organizations/individuals with whom they have worked.
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P.O. Box 617
Would you like to see your organization expand its impact in a way that enriches lives, builds a lasting commitment to conservation, and builds your organizational capacity?
We work with all-volunteer and staffed organizations—primarily conservation organizations—who want to engage with people based upon shared values, a connection to building a better and more inclusive community through conservation, and a Culture of Appreciation.
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Why? Because we feel an urgency to build resilient, impactful, strategic, and compassionate organizations. We believe that together, no matter where we live or what we do, conservation should and can enrich the lives of all people in tangible ways and build more inclusive, thoughtful, and healthy communities.
Our approach
We work with you to enhance your leadership, to create a culture that inspires participation and volunteer efforts, and to increase contributions for the organization and related programs and projects.
Rather than do the work for you, we focus on coaching: providing you with the strategy, tactics, skills, feedback, brainstorming, examples, and copy-writing/editing support that allow you to continue to grow and expand your impact beyond our work together.
We focus on communications and engagement that draw people together—and to your land trust—using techniques from neuroscience, marketing, donor-centered engagement, environmental physiology, conservation psychology, and organizational and behavioral change theory.
In partnership with W Design, or your own designers, we also work to help transform your outreach, educational materials, and marketing to be more visually inspiring and impactful.
PO Box 1225
Danosky & Associates is an action-oriented, results driven consulting firm that builds nonprofit capacity, applied through an equity lens with innovative strategies for an ever-emerging future. Our expertise focuses on four critical areas and specialties in each area that can be part of an integrated plan or address specific independent issues. Strategy, Governance, Funding and Finance.
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To provide the best services to our clients possible, we have honed and developed key skills that we consider essential to the outcomes our clients are expecting. Individually and collectively we have dedicated years to perfecting our practice. That is why we consistently achieve and super-achieve the outcomes our clients want and expect.
- The ability to listen – to clients, board members, donors and people with lived experience
- The art of facilitation – to bring consensus through deliberative and meaningful discussion
- The skill to ask the right question – critical questions asked at pivotal moments open discussion
- The gift of communication – both written and oral so ideas are presented clearly and compellingly
- Dedication to research – to gather and analyze data that unlocks opportunity
- A holistic approach to all initiatives we direct.
I am a fundraising and organizational development consultant, working with non-profit organization boards and staff to help them become better leaders, advocates, and fundraisers.
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Since 2003, I have worked with land trusts and other non-profit conservation organizations under the business name Development for Conservation, focusing on fundraising assessment (development audits) and major gift development training. I am a regular presenter at the Land Trust Alliance’s national conference, “Rally,” as well as several other regional land trust conferences. In addition to development audits and major gift development training, I also offer capital and annual campaign consulting services.
80 Eastern Blvd. Suite 5
EKI Environment & Water, Inc. (EKI) is an employee-owned company that provides comprehensive environmental, water resources, and engineering services. The firm’s primary objective is to achieve successful resolution of our clients’ environmental challenges to accomplish their project objectives, on time and within budget. EKI has a wide range of experience with complex sites including pre-acquisition due diligence assessments and developing strategies for assessing and remediating regulated and contaminated properties, including Brownfields, both in Connecticut and throughout the United States.
EKI has developed a reputation for effective technical project management by carefully assessing client needs, providing appropriate services led by experienced staff, and delivering products that fulfill client expectations.
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EKI takes a solution-oriented approach to projects that builds from a strong technical foundation and emphasizes proactive and effective communication with both our clients and regulatory agencies. This approach allows our clients to meet their goals and agency requirements in a timely and cost-effective manner.
EKI brings specific knowledge and experience conducting environmental services that include:
- Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs)
- Phase II & III Site Investigations
- Remedial Action Plan (RAP) development and implementation
- Remediation oversight and operation and maintenance
- Hazardous Building Material Assessment
- Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessments
- Vapor Intrusion Assessment and Mitigation
- Environmental Compliance
- Technical Support to Corporate Management and Legal Counsel
Shadbush Consulting provides tailored services to support land trusts as their organizations grow and change. We specialize in supporting partnerships, collaboratives and cross-sector initiatives, with particular focus on climate resilience and community conservation. Services include facilitation, assessment, community engagement, writing, speaking and leadership support.
Julia Solomon, Principal, has twenty years of experience facilitating group dialogue and planning processes for nonprofits, universities and governments and brings a scientifically grounded, interdisciplinary approach to projects. She has worked extensively in the fields of land and water conservation, land use planning, climate action planning and community engagement.
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Facilitation – Strategy development and planning for organizations and multi-stakeholder projects.Assessment – Focus groups, stakeholder meetings, one-on-one interviews, surveys, peer bench-marking research.
Community Engagement – Design of public engagement processes, facilitation of public engagement activities.
Writing – Review and revision of existing communication materials, development of grant proposals, creation of content to support new or revised organizational identity and initiatives.
Speaking – Conference presentations and workshops, presentations to multi-stakeholder groups, participation in panel discussions.
Leadership Support – Meetings with leaders and leadership teams, facilitated activities to promote creativity and growth.
1258 Litchfield Turnpike
We are a full-service woman owned digital marketing agency with a heart. When organizations choose to work with us, a portion of all dollars earned go back into the local community and non-profits.
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We specialize in creating websites, social media management, strategy, PR, content writing, seo, ppc and much more.
4 Hunter Drive
Sarah Shrewsbury, principal of Vineyard Consulting, has helped numerous nonprofits throughout the northeast, start or enhance their major gift fundraising programs or organize and execute capital campaigns.
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Prior to starting Vineyard Consulting, Sarah served as a major gift Development Officer for 23 years at Yale University (13 years- including three years at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies), Mystic Seaport, The Nature Conservancy of CT and AmeriCares. During her years as a practitioner, she raised tens of millions of dollars and participated in two, billion-dollar campaigns.
For lists of services, consulting clients and career highlights, please visit: www.vineyard-consulting.com
