How CBI Helps Non-Governmental Organizations

Whether tackling a controversial local issue, advocating for national policy, or managing internal operations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) sometimes find themselves inadequately resourced to achieve their desired outcomes. Without experience in designing complex public processes, NGOs often meet challenges when partnering with other groups to promote action across boundaries and achieve specific goals.

Our Areas of Expertise

International Development

CBI helps international development leaders and organizations address participation, negotiation, and consensus building.

Land Use and Development

CBI helps public officials, developers, mediators, and other constituents balance social, political, economic, environmental, and health concerns in resolving land use disputes.

Natural Resources and Environment

CBI specializes in environmental planning, public land, air pollution, and water management. Combining process skills with technical acumen enables us to manage multi-party negotiations in the public arena.

Social Policies and Programs

CBI designs public input processes, administers meetings, and enables groups achieve consensus on issues such as housing, criminal justice, and diversity.

Case Studies

CBI and Justice and Sustainability Associates have sought to prepare trainings and case studies that can benefit those seeking environmental justice across the U.S.

Our Services

Facilitation

With expertise in group dynamics and many years of facilitating meetings and problem-solving processes of various kinds, CBI helps constituents identify, implement, and evaluate shared objectives.

Mediation

CBI’s professional mediators establish a collaborative environment, avoid escalation, and create value—leading to more efficient, wiser, and more stable results.

Stakeholder Assessment

CBI has helped define the practice of stakeholder assessment for many global, national, state, local, and inter-organizational disputes.

Training

Through proven one-day to one-week workshops, CBI helps government, multilateral, nonprofit, and corporate audiences negotiate more effectively.

Select Clients

American Society of Clinical Oncologists
Association of International Petroleum
Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies
Center for Public Resources
Central Advisory Council, Chicago Public Housing Residents
Centre for Dispute Resolution (U.K.)
John F. Kennedy Library
Land Trust Alliance
National Science Foundation
Nature Conservancy
New Hampshire Public Defenders
Northeast Midwest Institute
Sonoran Institute
The Glynwood Center
Water Environment Research Foundation

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