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For over two decades, Veda has worked with clients to protect the environment through policy, communications and education. The results speak for themselves.
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Veda is a leader in designing innovative outreach and engagement strategies that result in understanding and buy-in for public programs and practices that reduce stormwater impacts.
Veda staff have robust science and policy expertise that helps advance recovery and protection of species at risk.
Veda is the Lead Coordinator for the Oil Spill Task Force, a multi-state and transboundary oil spill prevention, prepardness and response organization working across the West Coast and Canada.
Veda helps clients navigate the complicated process of identifying, protecting and restoring habitat. Our work includes working with municipalities and counties with public outreach, meeting facilitation and stakeholder engagement aimed at protecting and restoring wetlands, watersheds, city parks and shorelines.
Veda helps clients succeed in large-scale clean-up projects by skillfully engaging and communicating with affected local communities and stakeholders. Our extensive experience with building and facilitating public engagement programs helps affected communities understand the impacts of reparations on their daily lives and neighborhoods.
Veda empowers clients to proactively confront the numerous challenges and uncertainties posed by climate change. We work with public, private, and non-profit entities to develop and implement sustainability plans, strategic plans, and climate action plans so they can thrive and succeed in the decades and centuries to come.
We design workshops that deliver. How? By focusing on creating and employing key ingredients: a solid outcome-oriented agenda, thoughtful and detailed preparation, seamless orchestration and facilitation, and comprehensive follow-up. We plan small workshops and large, multi-day events with concrete outcomes and clear next steps. In short, we work with you to ensure that your workshop is meaningful, engaging and productive.
The natural world is complex, and so too are the efforts to understand, protect and restore it. Veda’s team of science communication experts have extensive experience translating science and technical information into compelling language and images that are accessible and comprehensible to broad audiences. Our science backgrounds coupled with decades of science communication practice have resulted in communication products that tell a clear story and have impact.
Natural resource protection and restoration efforts are more likely to succeed if the diverse array of individuals who are interested in and/or impacted by them have had meaningful opportunities to engage.
Veda staff are passionate about providing stakeholders with this opportunity. Our efforts not only help build broad support for important restoration and protection efforts, but also result in better and more sustainable projects that reflect the important insights and values provided by stakeholders.
“Failing to plan is planning fail”. A well-crafted strategic plan is a roadmap to achieving success for any entity. We lead organizations through engaging and creative strategic planning processes that result in a clear ‘north star’ direction for moving forward. Our strategic planning workshops include relationship-building activities that fosters commitment and collaboration across staff within an organization as they chart their future course.
Successful meetings, workshops and events don’t happen by chance. They are the result of carefully designed processes led by professional facilitators who work hard to build trust and collaboration among participants. Veda’s team of experienced, certified facilitators work with clients to design and implement processes that foster productive dialogue and culminate in agreement on priority actions that help projects and programs gain traction.
Built on over two decades of first-hand experience, Veda has developed cutting edge trainings designed to empower natural resource practitioners. Our trainings in stakeholder engagement, facilitation and science communication are specially designed to share best practices and tricks of the trade that we have successfully used in our own work. Our trainings are custom-designed to meet your organization’s unique needs. Download the Trainings We Offer.
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Retreat planning and virtual facilitation for Northwest Straits Initiative
CLIENT: WA Dept of Ecology
YEAR: 2020 & 2021
SERVICES: Workshop Planning, Facilitation
EXPERTISE: Species at Risk, Habitat Protection and Restoration
Retreat planning and virtual facilitation for Earth Economics
CLIENT: Earth Economics
YEAR: 2020 & 2021
SERVICES: Workshop Planning, Facilitation
Recovering Chinook salmon habitat in the South Fork Nooksack River
CLIENT: Nooksack Tribe of Indians & Whatcom County Public Works
YEAR: 2020/2021
SERVICES: Science and Technical Communication, Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement, Facilitation
EXPERTISE: Species at Risk, Habitat Protection and Restoration
Virtual retreat facilitation to protect Whatcom County's Marine Resouces
CLIENT: Whatcom County Marine Resources Committee (Whatcom MRC)
YEAR: 2020/2021
SERVICES: Workshop Planning, Strategic Planning, Facilitation
EXPERTISE: Habitat Protection and Restoration, Climate Change and Sustainability
Workshop planning and remote facilitation
CLIENT: Cathy Angell Communications
YEAR: 2020 & 2021
SERVICES: Workshop Planning, Facilitation
Educational raingarden signage for the Port of Seattle
CLIENT: Port of Seattle
YEAR: 2019
SERVICES: Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement
EXPERTISE: Stormwater Management and Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Outreach to Seattle Pearl Street neighborhood residents about stormwater management
CLIENT: Seattle Public Utilities
YEAR: 2015-present
SERVICES: Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement, Facilitation
EXPERTISE: Stormwater Management and Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Remote meeting planning and facilitation training
CLIENT: Amazon
YEAR: 2019
SERVICES: Facilitation, Training
Managing stakeholder conflict in natural resources programs
CLIENT: King County
YEAR: 2019 - 2020
SERVICES: Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement, Training
EXPERTISE: Stormwater Management and Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Strategic Plan review and update for Ecology's Spills Program
CLIENT: Washington Department of Ecology
YEAR: 2019
SERVICES: Strategic Planning, Facilitation
Developing a robust and sustainable Strategic Plan for North Cascades Institute
CLIENT: North Cascades Institute
YEAR: 2019
SERVICES: Strategic Planning, Facilitation
EXPERTISE: Habitat Protection and Restoration
Leading a Strategic Plan process for the Northwest Area Committee
CLIENT: US EPA and Washington Department of Ecology
YEAR: 2019
SERVICES: Strategic Planning, Facilitation
Developing a robust and sustainable Strategic Plan for the San Juan Preservation Trust
CLIENT: San Juan Preservation Trust
YEAR: 2018-2019
SERVICES: Strategic Planning, Facilitation
EXPERTISE: Climate Change and Sustainability
Cleaning up a legacy of pollutants in Seattle's neighborhoods
CLIENT: Seattle City Light
YEAR: 2016 - present
SERVICES: Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement
EXPERTISE: Clean-up of Contaminated Sites
Stakeholder Engagement Training
CLIENT: Coastal Training Program
YEAR: 2018
SERVICES: Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement, Training
Helping protect Puget Sound Nearshore through strategic planning
CLIENT: WA Dept of Fish and Wildlife
YEAR: 2018
SERVICES: Strategic Planning, Facilitation
EXPERTISE: Species at Risk, Habitat Protection and Restoration, Climate Change and Sustainability
Washington Association of Conservation Districts Facilitation
CLIENT: Washington Association of Conservation Districts
YEAR: 2018
SERVICES: Facilitation
EXPERTISE: Climate Change and Sustainability
Science Communication Training
CLIENT: Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
YEAR: 2018
SERVICES: Science and Technical Communication, Training
Helping advance the work of the Washington Association of Conservation Districts
CLIENT: Washington Association of Conservation Districts
YEAR: 2017
SERVICES: Strategic Planning, Facilitation
Doing our part to help recover the Southern Residents
CLIENT: San Juan Marine Resources Committee
YEAR: 2017
SERVICES: Workshop Planning, Facilitation
EXPERTISE: Species at Risk
Adjacent Streets Cleanup and Stormwater Management
CLIENT: Seattle City Light
YEAR: 2017
SERVICES: Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement
EXPERTISE: Stormwater Management and Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Clean-up of Contaminated Sites
Training and certifying designers and contractors in sustainable landscaping practices to reduce impacts to Lake Whatcom
CLIENT: City of Bellingham
YEAR: 2016-2017
SERVICES: Science and Technical Communication, Training
EXPERTISE: Climate Change and Sustainability
Training: risk communications, stakeholder engagement and science communications
CLIENT: International Oil Spill Conference
YEAR: 2017
SERVICES: Training
Establishing a no-discharge zone for Puget Sound
CLIENT: Washington Department of Ecology
YEAR: 2012-2013
The legacy of Seattle’s electricity network – removing old transformer stations
CLIENT: Seattle Public Utilities
YEAR: 2015-present
SERVICES: Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement
EXPERTISE: Clean-up of Contaminated Sites
Reducing electronic waste in Washington: Ecology’s E-Waste Program
CLIENT: Washington Department of Ecology
YEAR: 2009-2015
SERVICES: Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement
Creating Washington’s first community forest in the Teanaway River Watershed
CLIENT: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Washington Department of Natural Resources
YEAR: 2015-2016
SERVICES: Facilitation
Cleaning up and restoring the Duwamish River and South Park Neighborhood
CLIENT: Seattle City Light and Port of Seattle
YEAR: 2014-2017
SERVICES: Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement
EXPERTISE: Habitat Protection and Restoration, Clean-up of Contaminated Sites
Protecting the West Coast from Oil Spills
CLIENT: Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force
YEAR: 2012 - present
SERVICES: Workshop Planning, Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement, Strategic Planning, Facilitation
Protecting Seattle's waterways with raingardens
CLIENT: City of Seattle and King County
YEAR: 2012-present
SERVICES: Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement
EXPERTISE: Stormwater Management and Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Training the oil spill prevention and response community to communicate with and engage stakeholders
CLIENT: Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force and Clean Pacific Conference
YEAR: 2015
SERVICES: Science and Technical Communication, Training
Training stormwater professionals to design, install and maintain Low Impact Development (LID) facilities
CLIENT: Washington State Department of Ecology and Washington Stormwater Center
YEAR: 2008-present
SERVICES: Science and Technical Communication, Training
EXPERTISE: Stormwater Management and Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Protecting and restoring habitat in the City of Bellingham
CLIENT: City of Bellingham
YEAR: 2012-2016
SERVICES: Workshop Planning, Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement, Facilitation
EXPERTISE: Habitat Protection and Restoration
Resolving landowner conflicts in the upper Skagit River basin: managing the North Cascades elk herd
CLIENT: Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
YEAR: 2013-2016
SERVICES: Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement, Facilitation
EXPERTISE: Species at Risk
Leque Island Alternatives Analysis: engaging citizens to recover salmon in the Skagit River Delta
CLIENT: Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
YEAR: 2013-2016
SERVICES: Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement, Facilitation
EXPERTISE: Species at Risk, Habitat Protection and Restoration
Northwest Straits Commission Annual Retreat
CLIENT: Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative
YEAR: Annually: 2014 to present
SERVICES: Facilitation
Engaging Puget Sound communities in oil spill preparedness and response
CLIENT: Northwest Straits Foundation
YEAR: 2014 - 2015
SERVICES: Workshop Planning, Facilitation
Identifying Barriers and Incentives to Reducing Shoreline Armoring
CLIENT: Island County
YEAR: 2015 - 2016
SERVICES: Strategic Planning, Facilitation
EXPERTISE: Habitat Protection and Restoration
Nooksack River Watershed (WRIA 1) Planning Unit Coordination
CLIENT: Whatcom County Public Works
YEAR: 2015-2016
SERVICES: Facilitation
Reducing Small Spills: Coordinating the Pacific Oil Spill Prevention Education Team (POSPET)
CLIENT: Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force
YEAR: 2012-present
SERVICES: Facilitation
Veda was extremely helpful in translating the complex science of the project into comprehensible language.