Innovative, Actionable, Effective
ArkSpring Consulting helps businesses, government, and non-profits develop internal and external strategies, policies, strategic plans, and programs to advance their objectives for the environment, community prosperity, and community self determination, as well as climate, energy, and conservation. Our approach ensures that your efforts are effective and within the scope of your organization’s mission, while also addressing the public’s increasing expectations for meaningful engagement on these concerns.
Support for Community Prosperity & Self-Determination
A project developer’s or agency’s credibility can be tied to how well they address community concerns and interests. But how can they meaningfully deal with contextual issues that may be beyond their respective missions, resources, and skillsets? Conversely, how can they identify and adapt to community expectations that may actually align with and enhance their mission or goals? ArkSpring works with clients to help them identify areas of alignment.
Increasingly, climate change and the pursuit of energy diversification, and environmental conservation issues touch more aspects of daily life. ArkSpring can facilitate nuanced internal or multi-stakeholder external conversations, help develop and communicate pragmatic approaches to address stakeholder or regulatory concerns, and undertake strategic planning processes to maximize your organization’s impact.
Practical Climate, Energy, and Conservation Policies
Professional Focus Areas
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Mission Alignment
Guiding your organization in developing an ESJ plan or overall strategic plan that is… Read More
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Facillitation
Facilitating difficult internal or external discussions to move the dial on ESJ… Read More
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Implementation
Ground-truthing your ESJ and/or climate policies and plans to ensure that they… Read More
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External Alignment and Outreach
Develop external metrics that will ground-truth and measure the effectiveness of… Read More
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Strategic Planning
Conduct classic strategic planning to help organizations or departments identify th… Read More
Deidre Sanders, Ph.D.
Principal and Founder
Dr. Sanders’ career is about effective problem-solving through innovative policy development.
She guides businesses, agencies, and non-profits in the development and implementation of internal and external strategies, policies, and programs to advance their environmental justice, economic justice, and social justice objectives.
Prior to her consultant work she was Director of Government and Community Affairs, and Director of Public Policy at East Bay Community Energy from 2018 to early 2020, and before that she was the Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (San Francisco) environmental justice (EJ) subject matter expert for ten years where she advanced the implementation and institutionalization of PG&E’s Environmental Justice Policy, climate EJ, and policy strategy for PUC proceedings regarding disadvantaged communities.
ArkSpring Assets
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Deidre Sanders, Ph.D.
Principal and Founder
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Darcy Wheeles
Principal
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Micah Day
Director
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“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
- C.S. Lewis
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