Galvanize Partners is a street smart, politically savvy, deeply experienced team of
philanthropy, policy and project advisors dedicated to the intersection of
security, climate, conservation and resilient business models.
Galvanize Partners has decades of experience in strategic finance, carbon markets, climate policy, Federal and state advocacy, storytelling, narrative design, facilitation, and stakeholder coalition building.
Galvanize Partners works with for-purpose companies, asset holders, asset managers and public agencies focused on climate, carbon and environmental justice.
Galvanize Partners has decades of experience leading successful government engagement at the Federal and state levels, specializing in: strategy development and execution; coalition building; partnership cultivation and activation; and lobbying and advocacy.
We work with Fortune 100 companies, start-ups, NGOs, for-purpose companies, and public agencies developing, securing support for and executing solutions to the most pressing security, climate, and conservation challenges of our day.
Galvanize Partners has decades of experience in strategic finance, carbon markets, climate policy, Federal and state advocacy, storytelling, narrative design, facilitation, and stakeholder coalition building.
Galvanize Partners works with for-purpose companies, asset holders, asset managers and public agencies focused on climate, carbon and environmental justice.
We believe that expertise, experience and elbow grease are the keys to driving change, growing your business and making an impact.
Sometimes conservation and climate stories are hard to tell – particularly when you’re trying to reach new audiences. We support conservation-focused organizations, climate tech start-ups, clean energy businesses, and conservation collaboratives in distilling complex scientific and climate realities into clear, digestible and compelling narratives, pitch decks and articles which drive interest, investment and outcomes.
We know the policy and the policy makers. Our networks span global, federal and state policy makers, regulators, and agency leads. We understand the current landscape of incentives, restrictions, objectives and priorities – and we know what is coming down the pipeline. We support clients in navigating the complexity of climate policy and leveraging it to their benefit from public funding to public partnership to understanding policy futures which shape market outcomes.
We are sophisticated, effective advocates for our clients policy objectives. With decades of experience in the Federal government, we have deep relationships across national agencies and House and Senate staff. We understand the need to shape and define the policies that will guide climate critical outcomes – and we have the network and knowledge to support our clients in doing just that.
Public, private, debt, equity, grants and loans – We know that financing long term carbon reduction and climate technology is not simple. Creative financing strategy can speed and scale restoration and carbon reduction – and we have worked with a broad variety of tools, advising clients on possible capital sources and creative conservation finance strategies to bridge the gap from grant to equity and pave the way for success.
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Conservation and climate outcomes must generate resilient environmental and economic futures for frontline climate regions. We are committed to building an equitable climate future – where the benefits of green technologies and restoration of oceans and land flow to the rural, native and underserved communities of the world. Clients in this space include public agencies, rural non-profit organizations focused on triple-bottom line outcomes for underserved regions, and family offices with a particular interest in environmental restoration and climate resilience in rural regions.
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Sometimes the hardest part is getting people to find common ground. Bringing people together -- particularly those who have divergent priorities, differing market and policy incentives, or strongly held and apparently divergent views on critical climate issues is tough. We have done this successfully over the years for several clients; and we know how to listen, to interview, to withhold judgement but remain incisive and progress oriented.
We no longer have a fire season in California, we just have fire. Teal Brown Zimring co-authored this report with Dan Sanchez and Catherine Mater on the readiness of technologies from nanocellulosic materials to biochar to give forest kindling a better fate than open burning and catastrophic fire
Read moreWe are privileged to moderate and curate this series for the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation. Bringing people together to understand our Forest Futures in three series: market based approaches to landscape restoration, regional community-scale solutions, and the stories of our forests, which includes author interviews, discussions with the traditional stewards of our land, film screenings and more. Click here for past recordings and upcoming events.
Read moreJust released by the Sierra Business Council - a critical video series on why our forests are on fire, where we're going from here and what we can do about it. Our own Teal Brown Zimring is featured. Check them out here. Image: for the moment
Read moreWe are committed to the idea that, with the right partners, you can build and sustain solutions to even the most complex technology, security and environmental challenges
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Mark has over two decades of energy, environmental and investment leadership experience at The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Deutsche Bank Securities. Most recently, Mark led TNC’s Market Transformation team and the organization’s Social Impact partnership with Bain & Company, delivering catalytic wins at the intersection of regenerative food systems, sustainable forestry and conservation. He is at his best when helping to navigate uncommon alliances between civil society, private and public sector stakeholders to secure ambitious market deals & policy advances that benefit nature and people. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania as well as a Master of Public Policy and Master of Science in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley. In his spare time, you can find Mark playing in the mountains surrounding Lake Tahoe with his wife, kids and over-sized dog.
Teal is a political economist and climate strategist with a focus on nature based climate solutions and blended financial models, and deep expertise in wildfire resilience, nature based carbon removal strategies and markets, regenerative agriculture, and climate biotechnologies. In 2022, Teal founded the Lab to Land Institute, a California nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing ethical, effective and efficient climate biotechnologies. Teal has served as a Technical Expert for the California Forest Carbon Plan, the Wildfire Task Force, and several family office advisory committees on ecosystem resilience, wildfire, and climate adaptation strategies. Teal was Statewide Chair of the California Joint Institute’s on Wildfire Resilience working group on Equity + Justice and has authored multiple papers on biomass markets and the economics of ecosystem resilience. Teal was previously the Deputy Director for The Aspen Institute, and an advisor to the Nike Foundation, Schultz Family Foundation, United Nations Foundation and others. Teal holds a Master's in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University. She serves on the board of the Sierra Business Council.
With nearly 20 years of experience in international development and national security policy making, Celes leverages keen political judgment, an insider’s understanding of the policy process, and a wide network of high-level influencers on behalf of our clients. Celes is a veteran of senior personal and committee staffs in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. She works alongside policy makers, elected officials, global industry leaders and community activists across the United States and in more than a dozen countries in Africa and the Middle East. Celes has an undergraduate degree from Claremont McKenna College and holds a Master in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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