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.

P.O. Box 6751
The Conservation Consulting Group (CCG) is a collective of highly experienced professionals who are passionate about land conservation and dedicated to building the capacity and advancing the mission of nonprofit environmental and conservation organizations throughout the United States.
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Specialties include strategic planning, organizational assessment and improvement, Board development, meeting facilitation, coaching and mentoring, training and education. We assist organizations with planning and developing initiatives that engage, invigorate, and mobilize stakeholders and constituencies. We offer assessments and specific recommendations based on best practices to empower staffs and Boards. We deliver so our clients can deliver – results second to none.

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.

PO Box 363
We are a growing consulting firm with deep expertise in and commitment to the nonprofit sector. We strive to foster high-trust relationships with our clients and team members, and an impactful and balanced work environment.
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We are your decision architects.
We believe that each of our clients is in the process of becoming better than they are: more vibrant, more capable, more powerful, and more able to bring about positive change in society. We’ll support your journey through a customized and information-rich process that sparks curiosity, shared understanding, and confident decision making.
Nonprofits
We work with nonprofit leaders to examine and address a wide range of organizational challenges and opportunities.
Funders
We can help you develop an effective culture and strategic direction, as well as deliver quality training programs.
Collaboratives
Whether you need to design, direct, or revitalize your collaborative, we can help you forge more strategic alliances.
Board Leaders
We help boards examine their structure, functions, skills, and relationships, as well as the health of the organization they serve.
141 Pleasant Street
Utilizing Interpretive best practices to assist clients in sharing the story of their natural and cultural resources to have enhanced visitor engagement and support
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With nearly 40 years of professional experience and training in interpretive services and development, Tom’s expertise is recognized throughout the United States. A founder, life member and Fellow of the National Association for Interpretation, he is recognized as an expert in integrating your organizational story and needs with the best practices of personal and non-personal Interpretation.
Having developed and overseen the creation of hundreds of interpretive plans/projects, provided training for thousands, overseen volunteer programming and been involved with strategic planning at numerous non profits, Tom brings to the table the ideas, network and creative spirit to ensure your interpretive story meets the needs of the changing demographics of our ever evolving audiences. Messaging is key for engagement and subsequent support!
Using interpretation as a core building block for success, his diverse experience in Interpretive/Strategic Planning/Training for non profits and governmental entities will ensure the planning process is tailored for your needs.

P.O. Box 362
With over two decades of experience in nonprofit service and degrees in law and public administration, Connie has worked with land trusts throughout New England to provide organizational assessment, strategic planning, policy development, grant writing and preparation for accreditation.
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Focusing exclusively in the area of land conservation since 2008, Connie’s experience also includes special projects for the Land Trust Alliance and the Land Trust Accreditation Commission, as well as hands-on staff service as Executive Director of the Kent Land Trust, and Manager at the 24-member Litchfield Hills Greenprint Collaborative, a leading Regional Conservation Partnership. She chairs the Kent Conservation Commission and the Connecticut Land
Conservation Council Advisory Council, respectively. Connie brings a practical approach to land trust work, helping clients set and reach achievable goals to build lasting capacity.
- Organizational Assessment / AYO
- Policy development
- Grantwriting
- Strategic planning
- Accreditation coaching

P.O. Box 4158
Helping people connect, navigate change and complexity, and create solutions.
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Parallel Solutions
- Guides strategic planning and decision-making
- Supports strategy execution
- Advises clients as they plan and manage changes in leadership, funding, programs, partnerships, and systems
- Provides organizational development advice, coaching, and training
- Supports collaborative efforts, including cross-sector, inter-organizational, and inter-jurisdictional partnerships
- Designs and facilitates meetings and stakeholder engagement processes
Parallel Solutions is rooted in Traverse City, Michigan and primarily serves people and places in the Great Lakes region. Our diverse mix of public, private, and nonprofit clients invest in downtowns and neighborhoods, build housing, run cooperatives, protect natural and farm lands, support local businesses, develop and maintain trails, restore rivers, create and manage public parks, protect drinking water, address homelessness, support food security, steward wildlife habitat, nurture connections with nature, create and promote the arts, educate students, design and manage transportation systems, and support individual and community health and wellness.

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.