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
City of Ravenswood Zoning Code Diagnosis
In anticipation of growth in Ravenswood, West Virginia, we assessed the City’s 60-year-old zoning code to advance the growth goals of its recently updated comprehensive plan. The diagnosis report is an important first step to a streamlined and user-friendly code for developers, property owners, and residents.
City of Ravenswood Comprehensive Plan Update
We updated Ravenswood’s comprehensive plan to formulate a vision that prioritizes residential development, downtown revitalization, and quality of life improvements that celebrate Ravenswood’s river-town charm. Our action plan will help the city benefit from new developments at Ravenswood’s doorstep that bring housing, land use, and infrastructure challenges to the forefront.
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