We help companies walk the green talk

Green Impact helps socially responsible companies and NGOs transform a commitment to sustainability into action. We deliver a greener brand, campaigns that inspire action and programs that embed sustainability from the top-down and bottom-up.

We offer services in sustainability strategy, communications, stakeholder outreach and employee engagement.

If you are just getting started on the sustainability journey, we create a customized sustainability roadmap. If you have some green successes to share, we develop compelling content, from CSR reports to original Web site content. If you want help engaging employees or stakeholders, we design creative campaigns that inspire and engage.

RESULTS WE DELIVER

Some of the results our clients can expect from working with us include:

• Communications that inform and inspire:  Be it a CSR report, web content, a blog post or a white paper, we can translate your complex data into a compelling story that educates and inspires your target audience. We have written sustainability content for a range of clients, including UCSF, Robert Half International, Sonoma Land Trust and Business Social Compliance Initiative.

• More engaged employees:  Green teams provide employees a framework to express their green values at work, increasing retention, attracting the best talent and educating staff on corporate sustainability goals.

• Green programs that make an impact:  We design innovative green initiatives that make a quantifiable bottom line impact. We helped the Marin Community Foundation launch a new school-based carbon reduction campaign that was introduced into 24 schools, cancelling over 700 cars' worth of emissions.

• Stronger relationships with your stakehoders:  By engaging your stakeholders in an authentic dialogue, stronger partnerships can emerge.

• Better understanding of your environmental footprint: We help you identify your key environmental impacts and the issues most important to your stakeholders.

OUR CLIENTS

Our clients are nonprofits, foundations and socially responsible businesses starting a new initiative or program that requires a sophisticated strategy, strong partnerships and powerful written communications to succeed. You might be an ideal client if:

• You are just starting you first CSR report and need help with a strategy and transforming complex data into engaging stories.
• You have a successful program, but have not taken the time to create a strategy for getting the word out about it.
• You are working on a complex land conservation strategy and need assistance with grantwriting, a LAE or CAPP.
• You want to go green, but are not sure where to start.

Clients include: UCSF, Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), Robert Half International, Marin Community Foundation, Ecosystem Marketplace, The Natural Capital Institute, California Environmental Dialogue (CED), Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA), LandPaths, Climate Protection Campaign, Bay Area Ridge Trail Council and the Sonoma Land Trust.

FEATURED SERVICES:

• Sustainability Communications:  We create strategies and content that simplify your green message and tell a compelling story that educate and engage key stakeholders.  From CSR reports to web content to white papers, we help clients stand out in the crowd.  We also have the expertise to design engaging, interactive on-line reports.

• Employee Engagement:  Green Impact helps companies educate, inspire and engage employees in strategic and positive ways.  We harness the power of grassroots green teams and help companies drive their commitment to sustainability by embedding green champions throughout the organization. 

• Sustainability Strategy: We help companies just beginning the sustainability journey create a roadmap that identifies your most material impacts, risks and opportunities and where you stand compared to your competition. We deliver a specific action plan with recommended strategies, programs and partnerships for governance, manufacturing, operations, employee engagement and communications/marketing.

DEBORAH FLEISCHER

Deborah Fleischer, President, has over 20 years of experience working with businesses, universities, governmental agencies and non-profits on environmental and sustainability challenges. She brings deep expertise in sustainability strategy, employee engagement, stakeholder dialogue and communications. 

Her background includes a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Master in Environmental Studies from Yale University.  She is a LEED AP and Green Impact is a California certified Small Business.

OUR APPROACH

We believe today's big challenges require new and innovative approaches. Our approach includes the following elements:

• Personal touch: We are a small firm that provides each client the attention they deserve. We have a strong track record of delivering on-time, on-budget and on-schedule.

• Invite the right people to participate: A key to any successful strategy or program is to include a diversity of perspectives and voices. If you can get the right people involved, new possibilities can emerge. Employees, customers, shareholders, community organizations, and environmental NGOs can be allies to success on new sustainability initiatives.
  

• Systems thinking: To foster new insights, or find innovative solutions, you need to put the issues at hand into a bigger, global context, explore current trends and listen to each other, before jumping into problem-solving.
  

• Inspired action: We believe that inspired action comes from clear intention, conversations that include a diversity of perspectives and strong relationships.