Outreach and Engagement

Good decisions rely on good information. Our team is committed to helping clients facilitate community collaborations and tell their stories to broader audiences.

Public facilitation

At Downstream Strategies, we know that community engagement can dramatically enhance planning efforts and implementation projects. Our staff are skilled in facilitating techniques and have led public meetings, design charrettes, and open houses for a number of projects. We also work with private groups to guide nonprofit boards and committees through visioning and facilitated planning sessions.

Facilitation of public meetings, open houses, charrettes, and visioning sessions
Presentations
Feedback and outreach

Stakeholder surveys

Downstream Strategies has extensive stakeholder surveying experience to collect in-depth data across broad geographies and populations. Our team develops appropriate and functional surveys and tools to collect new data, ground-truth assumptions, and collect feedback. Our team works with clients to determine the goals of the survey and craft a data collection method that most effectively gathers the needed information.

Stakeholder identification and sampling
Survey design and development
In-person and online survey administration
Response monitoring and data analysis

Multimedia

Web-based multimedia applications offer innumerable tools to distill complicated science into effective communication. Our team designs and deploys web-mapping applications, story maps, and other custom multimedia features to engage and inform clients and the general public.

Education, reference, and training resources

Our team works with clients to develop handbooks, policy briefs, and other documents that explain regulations and future impacts, outline guidelines, and document best practices. These documents can open doors to future funding and partnerships and build broad-based support for your work.

Summary documents
Handbooks and informational guides
Training videos

Outreach and Engagement Contact

Kendra Hatcher

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Projects

Sprouting Farms

We conducted a feasibility study, developed the business plan, secured grant funding, and implemented the Sprouting Farms project. Sprouting Farms Appalachian Croft and Training Center is a nonprofit farm and education and resource center located in Summers County, West Virginia. It is dedicated to supporting new farmers, modeling sustainable production techniques, and providing shared resources and educational opportunities.

Understanding Mountain Bike Tourism: Strategies and Recommendations for Increasing Mountain Bike Tourism Opportunities in Richwood, West Virginia

We highlighted opportunities and marketing strategies to help Richwood capitalize on mountain bike tourism. The report included a profile of the mountain bike user group; an overview of existing trail resources in Richwood, nearby mountain biking destinations, and upcoming opportunities to expand mountain biking in the region; recommendations to help business owners market to mountain bikers; and examples of other rural communities that have used mountain biking to spur local economic development.

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