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

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Projects

Line of Sight: Region VI Planning and Development Council Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy 2022-2026

For a six-county region in north-central West Virginia, we developed a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS), a five-year economic plan to guide the growth of jobs, commerce, and community development. The CEDS is a strategy-driven plan guided by a diverse workgroup of local representatives and was established through local input, statistical analysis, and integration of economic development principles and practices.

Marlinton Bike Tourism Action Plan

To help the Town of Marlinton, West Virginia enhance its standing as a gateway community to the Monongahela National Forest, our trail planning team created an action plan focusing on tourism infrastructure needs and marketing. The plan prepares the community for increased visitation and to contribute to the greater regional effort of achieving gold-level status for the Snowshoe Highlands Area Ride Center.

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