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
All Aboard Grafton Brownfields Assessment and Redevelopment
We worked with the Northern Brownfields Assistance Center to help attract new business, lodging, and recreational opportunities to riverfront main streets in Grafton, West Virginia and other rural communities by redeveloping industrial legacy sites.
Preparing for Growth: Readying the Elk River Trail Towns for the Future
Recreation and tourism investments in Central West Virginia have centered around the establishment of the Elk River Trail System. To maximize its economic development power, communities must implement intentional strategies to accommodate an increased number of visitors. This report identifies strategies that would cost just over $4 million, but that could result in $250 million in new sales activity over the next 15 years in four Elk River Trail Towns.
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