Consulting Program
Catalyzing change.
CELDF educates and supports communities in taking action to achieve systemic and paradigmatic shifts in environmental and corporate policy.
We should be judging the effectiveness and value of any of our solutions by how well they’d work for people with the least institutional power.”
It’s time to reckon with the system.
Has your community tried to safeguard your local ecosystems from corporate interests? Protect endangered species? Preserve your clean air, water, or soil? Then you’ve probably run up against the legal roadblocks that prevent communities from making the significant changes needed to protect their liberties and environment.
This is not just a political issue or a matter of corruption. It’s a deep systemic problem that communities must reckon with in order to enact effective change. CELDF’s consulting program is designed to help communities discover their roadmap for shifting systems and paradigms toward the common good.
OUR BACKGROUND
30 years of systems
change advocacy.
CELDF has been in the systems change business for 30 years, striving to influence the big systems – law, government, economy – and their implementing institutions to work better for communities, people, and the environment. Through our Consulting Program, your community can build on our three decades of experience and extensive partner network to create effective plans for change.
Take advantage of our expertise.
Our Consulting Services
Moving Toward A
Better Reality.
CELDF aims to help create a new socio-political system in tune with the physical land base (watersheds, wetlands, forests, and other ecosystems that sustain communities) and a decision-making structure that provides for communities’ needs in an equitable manner and decentralizes authority across many societal fronts.
We hope consultees can leverage our experience to disrupt the system and move toward better solutions. All our consulting services come with a hefty dose of truth-telling guidance, creative thinking “outside the box,” resource connections, and especially a boost in confidence that collective action can happen and big system changes are possible.
Educational Consulting
Learn the whys behind the existing system through our in-depth educational resources. Participants can use our [Education Program] to develop a plan for change.
Legal Consulting
Collaborate with our legal experts to prepare/edit language for ordinances, charters, statutes and even state and national constitutions. We can also guide ballot access questions and review briefs.
Community Resistance & Resilience Consulting
Leverage the experience of CELDF, our [Partner Advisor Network], and our [Community Resistance and Resilience Program] to discover strategies and tactics for turning away from the existing system and creating alternatives for healthy community building.
OUR CONSULTEES
communities yearning to breathe free.
Our criteria is pretty simple: we work with communities frustrated by the lack of democracy and decision-making authority on values and issues of importance, who want to mobilize for a more equitable transformation of global socio-politcal and environmental systems.
Community Groups
We support communities in pursuing what is positive and healthy for human and non-human residents alike.
NGOs
We advise and partner with like-minded agencies and organizations to form coalitions.
Academic Groups
We open our resources to professors and students researching a particular concept, project or harm.
Lawyers
We advise legal teams who are preparing or arguing cases in defense of communities and nature.
Members of governments
We work with both domestic and international local, state and federal governments, including Tribes and Indigenous representatives.
Journalists
We help media teams with stories on Rights of Nature, Democratic Rights, and Community Rights.
