Clients and Projects

Our clients are:

  • National, state and local environmental organizations
  • Nonprofit organizations and associations
  • Foundations and philanthropists
  • State and municipal government agencies
  • Businesses

Our projects have included:

  • Managing and coordinating broad coalitions of environmental, public health and consumer advocates around critical policy issues. Coalition management efforts include:
    • monitoring and evaluating policy developments,
    • developing and implementing coordinated strategies to influence policy,
    • coordinating media and outreach,
    • ensuring regular communication and information sharing among coalition members, and
    • managing web sites.
  • Developing and implementing global warming and air quality policy.
  • Expanding advanced clean vehicle technologies and transportation systems.
  • Creating and implementing energy efficiency, water conservation and sustainable development initiatives.
  • Researching and promoting waste diversion and waste minimization programs.
  • Promoting greater use of renewable energy.
  • Expanding and improving green space and community parks in urban neighborhoods.
  • Publicizing a wide range of environmental activities through media outreach, events, community forums and materials development.
  • Marketing advanced storm water clean-up technologies.
  • Conducting market assessments ranging from analysis of environmental organizations active in California to identifying potential buyers for a green technology trade mission led by a foreign government.
  • Planning and executing conferences, receptions and fundraising events.

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Partial client list

AbTech Pacific, Inc.
Alliance to Save Energy
American Lung Association of California
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
California Climate Action Registry
California Department of Conservation, Division of Recycling
California Electric Transportation Coalition
CLCV Education Fund
California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition
California Resources Agency
Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies
Community Conservancy International
Department on Disability, City of Los Angeles
The Energy Foundation
Energy Independence Now
Environmental Defense Fund
Environment Now (foundation)
Environmental Affairs Dept., City of Los Angeles
Falcon Waterfree Technologies, Inc.
FilmL.A. (formerly the Entertainment Industry Development Corporation)
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Friends of Ballona Wetlands
Brenda Hampton, Executive Producer, 7th Heaven
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Industry Canada and the Consulate General of Canada – Los Angeles
Industry Canada and the Consulate General of Canada – San Francisco
Innovative Mobility Research
Joint Training Institute, LA Dept. of Water and Power
Klamath Riverkeeper
Los Angeles Conservation Corps
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters
Manitoba Hydro
Merced/Mariposa County Asthma Coalition
Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC)
Move LA
Natural Resources Defense Council
Participant Media (formerly Participant Productions)
People for Parks
The Ploughshares Fund
RAMP (Regional Asthma Management & Prevention)
The River Project (Los Angeles River)
Sacramento Local Conservation Corps
Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission
San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments
Sierra Club, Los Angeles and Orange County Chapters
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Solid Resources Citywide Recycling Division, City of LA Dept. of Public Works
Southern California Edison, Electric Transportation Division
Southern California Gas Company
Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A.
University of California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways
Warner Bros.

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At the Energy Foundation, we work with dozens of NGOs and foundations to build big new markets for clean energy technology. Better World Group helps us achieve our goals through the firm’s remarkable ability to connect with key decision-makers, manage large nonprofit coalitions, and navigate the environmental policy arena. I can highly recommend the BWG team.end quotes

Eric Heitz, President
The Energy Foundation


quotesThe Better World Group is a trusted and respected voice in Sacramento – policy makers rely upon the firm’s unique skills, which are an asset to California’s environment. We are fortunate to have a company like BWG working with local, state and national legislators, agency officials and advocates to advance critical issues such as global warming and air quality.end quotes

The Honorable Fran Pavley,
California State Senate


quotesThe Better World Group has been a tremendous help to Warner Bros. as we work to make our business more environmentally sustainable. Whether they are conducting technical research on diesel emissions reduction and alternative fuels for our fleet or navigating a philanthropic giving strategy for environmental nonprofit groups, the BWG team brings creativity and intellect to every challenge.end quotes

Shelley Levin Billik, Vice President of Environmental Initiatives
Warner Bros.


quotesWhen Silicon Valley Community Foundation began its public policy and advocacy work in the region, we benefited from the expertise of the Better World Group to help us understand complex lobbying laws and ‘best practices’ for being effective advocates in the policy arena.end quotes

Emmett Carson, CEO and President Silicon Valley Community Foundation


quotesWhether they are organizing environmental nonprofits around implementation of California’s Global Warming Solutions Act or managing a multi-state coalition of advocates around the Western Climate Initiative, there is no firm more capable or politically insightful than the Better World Group.end quotes

Ann Notthoff,
California Advocacy Director
Natural Resources Defense Council

 

 

 

 

 

 


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