STRATEGIC PROGRAM AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Designing and supporting science-based initiatives to improve conservation outcomes and organizational effectiveness

PURPOSE

Organizations large and small sometimes need a fresh set of eyes, some additional analysis, or a new perspective in order to gain and use the best possible information to solve their programmatic and organizational challenges. Key-Log Economics’ team brings a combined eight decades of experience in staff, senior leadership, and board positions in governmental, for-profit, and NGO sectors to those challenges. 

applications and outcomes

While all of our research, modeling, and policy analysis brings that experience to bear at the individual project level, we also like to get to the 10,000 meter level and help clients discover and hone strategies for meeting their objectives in new ways or with new information and tools.

We also know that no organization has the time, budget, or need for the all-too-common planning processes that produce too much paper (including consultants’ invoices) and too little action. If you are ready to define and connect your vision to limited (and therefore effective) operating guidance and then start implementing a plan worthy of the term “strategic” and if you are willing learn as you go, we can help you get started. 

PLACES AND PROJECTS

Eastern U.S.

Key-Log Economics' research and communications support has added an economic counterbalance to a prevailing narrative that natural gas pipelines bring economic benefits to rural communities.
With our clients, we have developed the idea that wetland forest conservation in the U.S. South is economically as well as ecologically sound, even when the risk to forests comes in the name of reducing fossil energy use. 

U.S. Midwest

Strategic engagement keeps the economic facts straight about proposed sulfide-ore mining in the Boundary Waters

U.S. West Including Alaska

South and Southeast Asia

(coming soon)
Helping Keep Hanoi Clean value its economic contribution to the city
Organizational and program development to support sustainable agriculture in Vietnam

Cross-cutting

Resources

We would like to help every organization make the most if its time and resources, but our own time is limited, so we don't think we'll be losing too much business to share our "recommended reading" for organizational leaders who want to get going on their own. ​

• Good to Great, and Good to Great and the Social Sectors, are not recent, but we find that following--rigorously--a couple core principles holds up well even in a shifting external environment.
• Ecological Economics: A Workbook for Problem-Based Learning isn't all you need to become an an ecological-economics researcher, but it can certainly help you develop the perspective and an understanding of where such research can strengthen you program.
  
• Drawing from a wide range of literature and experience, we have developed our own materials and approach to done-in-a-day planning.  For that, you'll have to contact us.