At EFG, we partner with your team to design winning strategies and implement practical solutions to maximize your company’s environmental and social impact.

OUR APPROACH

Our project approach typically involves an initial inquiry phase, market-specific research, and program strategy guidance on relevant policies, industry certifications, training resources, funding opportunities, and more tailored to your project's needs. Through rigorous monitoring and evaluation, we distill findings and recommendations into a concise and practical program design. With extensive experience in developing projects from inception to completion, we customize frameworks, adapt to challenges, and maintain consistent oversight for sustainable long-term function. From design to implementation, we are committed to ensuring your project's social, environmental, and economic sustainability.

Explore our range of services below.

 

 

Workforce Development

Receive full-spectrum support for your workforce development initiative, covering everything from initial stakeholder engagement to a summary of meticulous monitoring and evaluation efforts in a final report. We provide industry-relevant certification and technical training courses tailored to various audiences in the green trade and building industry, including high school students, colleges, professionals, transitioning workers, veterans, and second-chance citizens.

  • Stakeholder facilitation and goal alignment

  • Program recruitment, marketing and outreach

  • Custom curriculum and educational materials development

  • Training delivery (in-person or virtual)

  • Professional development for students and educators

  • Job placement

Sustainability Management

Identify opportunities for sustainability improvements within your organization, such as reducing your carbon footprint and maximizing your social impact. Our process involves thorough examination of your current business practices, followed by strategic recommendations, development of an integration plan, and goal setting to ensure sustained progress.

  • Sustainable supply chain & material management

  • Internal green teams organizing & sustainability training

  • Energy efficiency & renewable energy feasibility

  • Fleet transitioning

  • Sustainability & greenhouse gas accounting & reporting services

  • Zero-waste strategy

  • Carbon footprint calculation & decarbonization planning

  • Energy & water benchmarking, monitoring & reporting

Energy & Building Performance

With enthusiasm and expertise, our team is ready to initiate your energy efficiency, renewable energy, and green building projects. Our approach involves strategizing ways to minimize resource consumption in buildings, setting clear goals for energy and emission reduction, developing detailed implementation plans, monitoring energy and building performance, and a thorough reporting process to ensure progress and compliance.

  • Sustainable building design & building retrofit

  • Deconstruction & sustainable material management

  • Energy benchmarking, monitoring & reporting

  • Greenhouse gas accounting & reporting

  • Energy efficiency & renewable energy feasibility

Program Design & Management

Meet your objectives with custom project frameworks. We monitor, evaluate, and adapt to challenges and opportunities along the way, while maintaining consistent oversight for sustainable, long-term function. From project design to implementation, our team ensures your project is socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable.

  • Grant writing & donor relation development

  • Project sustainability assessment

  • Monitoring, evaluation & reporting services

  • Project design consultation, implementation & management

  • Stakeholder mapping & facilitation

  • Budget evaluation & funding research

Business Development

Identify market opportunities, develop internal strategies, and cultivate key relationships to foster the long-term, sustainable growth of your organization. We prioritize initiatives that advance sustainability, from small-businesses to larger corporations.

  • Partner and relationship identification & coordination

  • Service development

  • Business training & coaching

  • Grant & proposal writing

  • Initial business plan development

  • Goal development & alignment

  • Social, political & economic landscape review

  • Market & funding research

Marketing & Outreach

Launch outreach and engagement campaigns that incorporate accessibility and diversity, equity and inclusion. Our team is skilled at meeting communities on their terms, effectively initiating stakeholder communications, facilitating community engagement, and developing marketing materials in English and Spanish.

  • Survey distribution, analytics & reporting

  • Design services: websites, graphics, physical marketing materials & video editing

  • Outreach campaign design & event facilitation

  • Stakeholder & community engagement

  • Marketing & social media strategy

 

Ready to take the next step towards a more sustainable future?

Send us a note at info@earthforwardgroup.com or fill out the form below to get started.