We have worked with climate and environmental organizations for more than 20 years, across conservation, clean energy, open-source energy technology, sustainable impact investing, environmental media, and the future of urban transportation.
Our experience is diverse and cross-sector. We have sat with research scientists to understand the work before writing a word of messaging, presented directly to boards, and built communications architecture for organizations whose stakeholders span science, policy, philanthropy, and the general public.
Ecological and environmental work sits at the center of how we think about every sector. It connects to macroeconomics, geopolitics, technology, public health, and urban planning in ways that make it impossible to treat as a silo—and we don’t.
We bring to these engagements the ability to hold the broadest frame for why the work matters and translate it into a vision, a voice, and an operating model specific enough that every stakeholder in the room—board, scientists, funders, finance, public—can say “yes, that’s exactly right.”
Clients: Apollo Alliance, Coral Reef Alliance, Linux Foundation Energy, Remix, Sundance Channel, Ulupono Initiative
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- Digital Experience Design
- Brand Identity and Naming
- Positioning
- Content and Communications
- Board Facilitation
- Consulting CMO
- Nonprofit RevOps
- Organizational Cognition
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Coral Reef Alliance
For the CORAL website relaunch, The Next Us led positioning and messaging, sitewide content development, UX strategy, and WordPress development. Long-time partner Todd Schulte Design led the gorgeous visual design work. The new website helped CORAL break its online and general giving records for the 2021 annual campaign.
Sundance Channel
The Next Us helped the Sundance Channel generate significant online buzz for its new environmental content and smartly test hypotheses about the company’s audiences and long-term growth.
The Next Us worked with Sundance Channel over a two-year period on strategic planning and digital media strategy. Highlights of this work included the company’s innovative buzz marketing efforts in Second Life, which were profiled in the Time magazine 2006 Person of the Year issue and the New York Times.