Consulting Program

Catalyzing change.

CELDF educates and supports people in understanding how to mobilize and take action aimed at achieving cultural and systemic shifts in how we behave and govern in our communities and the ecosystems we are part of.

It’s time to reckon with the system.

Has your community tried to protect workers, neighborhoods, local ecosystems, or clean air and water, only to hit legal roadblocks? You’re not alone.

This isn’t just about politics or corruption; it’s a systemic issue. CELDF’s Consulting Program helps communities chart a path to shift unjust systems and reclaim power for people and the planet.

OUR BACKGROUND

30 years of systems
change advocacy.

Over 30 years, CELDF has confronted and challenged those systems of law, government, and economy that harm communities and the environment. Through our Consulting Program, your community can tap into that experience and our network to craft effective strategies for lasting change.

Take advantage of our expertise.

Rights of Nature

Community Organizing

System Change

Movement Building

Our Consulting Services

Moving Toward A
Better Reality.

CELDF advises and works with communities determined to build systems that align with local ecosystems that sustain them, including decision-making structures that equitably meet community needs while decentralizing authority. 

Our consulting offers truth-telling, bold ideas, resource connections, and confidence that collective action can disrupt harmful systems and drive transformative change to be in right-relationship with watersheds, wetlands, forests, and the rest of the living world.

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.

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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.

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OUR CONSULTEES

communities yearning to breathe free.

We partner with communities ready to mobilize for a more just and equitable transformation of social, political, and environmental systems because of frustration with the lack of democratic control over decisions that affect them where they live.

Community Groups

We support communities in pursuing what is positive and healthy for both human and non-human residents.

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.

Consultation Work PROVIDED to Communities, countries & tribal nations in need of our expertise.

Movements and communities involve people, people are complex and it’s not a complexity that needs to be apologized, hidden, or ashamed about. It’s a complexity that we have the responsibility to address and understand; I think it’s critical that intersectionality is utilized to preserve the health of any community and society.”

Sandy Ho Community Organizer

CELDF is fully committed to self-determination, protecting and advancing rights for Earth and all life she supports and nourishes.

We need your support in taking  paradigm change from idea to reality while there is still time.

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