What We Offer

Our tools for building collective change

Above: Brody Abbott, former Ecotruster and founding member of the Green Workforce Collaborative, participates in an arborist workshop with Treecology at the Natural Capital Center. The Green Workforce Collaborative is a partnership between Ecotrust, The Blueprint Foundation, Wisdom of the Elders, Self Enhancement Inc., and the Native American Youth and Family Center. Video credit: Alex Emberlin

We creatively combine our services for the greatest collective impact.

As a partner in grant-funded work, a skilled consultant, or a direct service provider, Ecotrust has the ability to combine services for powerful impact. Check out our Current Projects for examples of how we activate our toolkit of capabilities in collaborative projects that build climate resilience, broadly shared intergenerational wealth, and lands and waters stewardship across our region. 

The tools

PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT and implementation

  • Large group facilitation
  • Developing ideas into programs
  • Affected people/community analysis
  • Program evaluation and reporting
  • Measuring progress in racial equity

CAPACITY BUILDING

  • Leadership development
  • Culturally competent curriculum development
  • Business planning
  • Venue space and event support
  • Fundraising
  • New Markets Tax Credit
  • Grants

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

  • Economic analysis
  • Measurement frameworks and indicators
  • Decision-support tools
  • Operations planning and value-chain coordination
  • Spatial analysis
  • Software development
  • Cartography

ADVOCACY and Communications

  • Advisory group convening and participation
  • Policy support and amplifying messages
  • Event production
  • Branding and marketing
  • Design
  • Storytelling

Explore current projects to see how we partner and combine services for transformative impact.

Interested in bringing our toolkit of capabilities to your work or your community?

Tools in Action

The services on this page are people-powered and reflect the collective experience and expertise of our 60+ staff , who are working across the region with our partners to support climate resilience, build broadly shared intergenerational wealth, and expand lands and waters stewardship.

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Ecotrust’s work around linking the carbon dynamics of the forest with wood product procurement has been invaluable to the architectural design community. Their research has provided one of the few roadmaps for our clients to understand the full environmental performance of their mass timber structures and constituent supply chains. 

—Jacob Dunn, Principal at ZGF Architects

David Diaz, Director of Forestry Analytics and Technology, and Stephanie Gutierrez, Forests and Community Program Manager, visiting forestland managed by the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. Photo credit: Sean Gutierrez

Tyson Rasor, Fisheries & Food Systems Program Manager, tries a sample from Eleni Woldeyes, founder and manager of Eleni’s Kitchen at Local Link 2022. Photo credit: Supreme Optics Photography

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