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GALVANIZE PARTNERS


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GALVANIZE PARTNERS


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GALVANIZE PARTNERS

STRATEGY. INFLUENCE. IMPACT. CHANGE.

Galvanize Partners is a street smart, politically savvy, deeply experienced team of
philanthropy, policy and project advisors dedicated to the intersection of
security, climate, conservation and resilient business models.

Galvanize Partners has decades of experience in strategic finance, carbon markets, climate policy, Federal and state advocacy, storytelling, narrative design, facilitation, and stakeholder coalition building.

Galvanize Partners works with for-purpose companies, asset holders, asset managers and public agencies focused on climate, carbon and environmental justice.

Galvanize Partners has decades of experience leading successful government engagement  at the Federal and state levels, specializing in: strategy development and execution; coalition building; partnership cultivation and activation; and lobbying and advocacy.

We work with Fortune 100 companies, start-ups, NGOs, for-purpose companies, and public agencies developing, securing support for and executing solutions to the most pressing security, climate, and conservation challenges of our day.

Galvanize Partners has decades of experience in strategic finance, carbon markets, climate policy, Federal and state advocacy, storytelling, narrative design, facilitation, and stakeholder coalition building.

Galvanize Partners works with for-purpose companies, asset holders, asset managers and public agencies focused on climate, carbon and environmental justice.

We believe that expertise, experience and elbow grease are the keys to driving change, growing your business and making an impact.

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Design and Narrative Building

Sometimes conservation and climate stories are hard to tell – particularly when you’re trying to reach new audiences. We support conservation-focused organizations, climate tech start-ups, clean energy businesses, and conservation collaboratives in distilling complex scientific and climate realities into clear, digestible and compelling narratives, pitch decks and articles which drive interest, investment and outcomes.

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Climate Policy

We know the policy and the policy makers. Our networks span global, federal and state policy makers, regulators, and agency leads. We understand the current landscape of incentives, restrictions, objectives and priorities – and we know what is coming down the pipeline. We support clients in navigating the complexity of climate policy and leveraging it to their benefit from public funding to public partnership to understanding policy futures which shape market outcomes. 

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Federal and State Advocacy

We are sophisticated, effective advocates for our clients policy objectives. With decades of experience in the Federal government, we have deep relationships across national agencies and House and Senate staff. We understand the need to shape and define the policies that will guide climate critical outcomes – and we have the network and knowledge to support our clients in doing just that.

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Strategic Finance + Conservation Finance Strategy

Public, private, debt, equity, grants and loans – We know that financing long term carbon reduction and climate technology is not simple. Creative financing strategy can speed and scale restoration and carbon reduction – and we have worked with a broad variety of tools, advising clients on possible capital sources and creative conservation finance strategies to bridge the gap from grant to equity and pave the way for success. 

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Rural Economic + Environmental Resilience

Conservation and climate outcomes must generate resilient environmental and economic futures for frontline climate regions. We are committed to building an equitable climate future – where the benefits of green technologies and restoration of oceans and land flow to the rural, native and underserved communities of the world. Clients in this space include public agencies, rural non-profit organizations focused on triple-bottom line outcomes for underserved regions, and family offices with a particular interest in environmental restoration and climate resilience in rural regions.  

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Stakeholder Collaborative Building

Sometimes the hardest part is getting people to find common ground. Bringing people together -- particularly those who have divergent priorities, differing market and policy incentives, or strongly held and apparently divergent views on critical climate issues is tough. We have done this successfully over the years for several clients; and we know how to listen, to interview, to withhold judgement but remain incisive and progress oriented.

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OUR PRACTICE AREAS

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Strategic Finance + Conservation Finance Strategy

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Federal and State Advocacy

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Rural Economic + Environmental Resilience

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Carbon Markets

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Design and Narrative Building

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Stakeholder Collaborative Building

Facilitation and Convening

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Climate Policy

EVENTS, SUCCESSES AND PUBLICATIONS

2020 report on wood innovation markets in California

We no longer have a fire season in California, we just have fire. Teal Brown Zimring co-authored this report with Dan Sanchez and Catherine Mater on the readiness of technologies from nanocellulosic materials to biochar to give forest kindling a better fate than open burning and catastrophic fire

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Forest Futures Salon Series, Next up: Hydrogen and Forests.

We are privileged to moderate and curate this series for the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation. Bringing people together to understand our Forest Futures in three series: market based approaches to landscape restoration, regional community-scale solutions, and the stories of our forests, which includes author interviews, discussions with the traditional stewards of our land, film screenings and more. Click here for past recordings and upcoming events.

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Biomass in the Sierra Nevada - 3 part video series

Just released by the Sierra Business Council - a critical video series on why our forests are on fire, where we're going from here and what we can do about it. Our own Teal Brown Zimring is featured. Check them out here. Image: for the moment

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Strategy

The work of influencing policy extends well beyond the halls of Congress. Whether developing communication and engagement strategies to raise your profile, understanding the regulatory environment, or anticipating what's coming next, we help our clients develop playbooks to meet their goals.

Advocacy and Lobbying

We are sophisticated, effective advocates for our clients' policy objectives. With decades of experience in government, strong relationships, deep practice area expertise, and a keen understanding of the annual budget and oversight process, we deliver tangible results, even in the most uncertain political environments.

Networks and Coalition Building

We nurture close and long-standing ties to Members of Congress and senior staff in Leadership and on key Committees in the House and Senate and across the Executive Branch. Our bipartisan, bicameral approach leverages shared interests wherever possible to bring stakeholders together in support of creative solutions to emergent challenges. We have the network and knowledge to shape and define the policies that will guide critical outcomes.

OUR PRACTICE AREAS

We are committed to the idea that, with the right partners, you can build and sustain solutions to even the most complex technology, security and environmental challenges

WHO WE ARE

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Teal Brown Zimring

Co-Founder
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Celes Eckerman

Co-Founder and Practice Lead,
Security and International Programs

Mark Zimring

Practice Lead, Market Disruption
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Robert Suarez

Senior Consultant
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Emily Vitas

Project Manager

Alison Levin

Graphic Designer

Teal Brown Zimring

Managing partner

Teal operates at the intersection of the private, public and non-profit sectors, with over a decade of experience structuring high-value partnerships to benefit communities and regions globally.  She has demonstrated successes in creative problem solving to meet shared objectives, rigorous decision analysis and detailed impact assessment through the Aspen Institute, the UN Foundation, Two Degrees Food, Hewlett Packard and countless additional private and non-profit organizations. She has taught business ethics at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and implemented global corporate citizenship programs alongside small and large nonprofits in over 15 countries globally.

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Let's move forward. Together

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CONTACT US

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