Digital equity means everyone has the internet capacity they need at a price they can pay, but achieving that requires coordinated resources from federal, state, municipal, and tribal governments.
We facilitate meetings of the Food Assistance Advisory Committee, which serves as an important channel for emergency food providers to give input on policies, procedures, and programs. We’ve also help ensure that the forum’s open, high-engagement format and a more formalized decision-making structure aren’t in tension.
Ross Strategic facilitated virtual meetings to engage Tribes, stakeholders, and community members in identifying and prioritizing land uses that may come into conflict with solar development.
Ross Strategic convened a national workgroup of state clean water and drinking water administrators, to map the existing regulatory and voluntary processes for managing CECs and identify systemic barriers to timely, effective responses.
Ross Strategic provides collaborative long-range planning process design and facilitation, programmatic design and implementation, community outreach and engagement, and strategic support services to the Washington Department of Ecology’s Office of the Chehalis Basin.
Ross Strategic led this effort through multi-phase stakeholder engagement including desk research, an online survey of nearly 250 partners, and five targeted focus groups with subject matter experts.
For seven years, Ross Strategic has served as facilitator and process manager for the Washington State Food Policy Forum, a legislatively established public-private partnership.
Working with the Northwest Seaport Alliance, Ross Strategic and its partners convened and facilitated the Puget Sound Zero-Emission Truck Collaborative to develop a roadmap for transitioning the drayage fleet to zero-emission vehicles.
Ross Strategic led a team that included the Clean Energy Transition Institute and IEc, which provided detailed analysis of the economic and financial impacts of clean energy projects.
