Building consensus for action
Board management & teamwork strategies
Facilitating dynamic organizational culture
Catalyzing exceptional program implementation
Team-building across organizations & sectors
Facilitating public input and involvement

Projects

Ecotrust Collaborations
Problem: This leading NW environmental non-profit organization was seeking sources of funding beyond membership and foundations to support an innovative program series on sustainability initiatives in a new educational conference center.

Solution: Catalyst worked with top management and stakeholders to develop and market a new foundation focusing on collaborative initiatives and educational forums to generate initiatives for sustainable economic, environmental and cultural programs throughout the Northwest.

Result: The new educational foundation, charted to raise over $2.5 million, successfully funded and initiated the Sustainability Now! lecture series at the Ecotrust conference facility in Portland through Fall, 2002. Numerous pubic, private and non-profit collaborations formed.

Livable Oregon
Problem: This twenty-year old non-profit organization promoted environmentally sustainable economic development projects in Oregon. They were struggling with diminished funding, the loss of a charismatic founding director, a new board and a lack of vision for the future.

Solution: Ann conducted a series of stakeholder interviews, facilitated board retreats, developed organizational vision and strategies and explored collaborative opportunities with public and private community leaders.

Result: Livable Oregon was able to identify leadership, create new collaborative partners and funding options and form a more effective organizational focus to better continue their unique service.

Community Environmental Enhancement Project
Problem: A diverse and politically active NW community was divided for 20 years about how to use highway compensation funds for neighborhood enhancement following the construction of a ramp through their community core.

Solution: Working with a coalition of industrial, business and residential organizations in Northwest Portland, Ann formed and led a team in designing, funding and implementing a community environmental enhancement project for a highly visible and contested urban area.

Result: Raised over $100,000 in a three-month period through foundation, grant awards and private donations. Substantial public, private and non-private collaborations resulted in a well-received landscaping of freeway entrance to prominent NW community. Project became a pilot for Oregon Dept. of Transportation’s new Adopt-a-landscape program.