Clients

Our clients are driven by the pursuit of a more equitable and sustainable world.

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Examples of clients we’ve worked with:

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Case Studies

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Client Type
International non-profit

Client Team
U.S. Food Business team

Sector
Animal Welfare

Engagement Type
Fractional — Strategic Partnerships

  • CIWF sought ongoing support to bridge the gap between U.S. Better Chicken Commitment signatories’ public pledges and actual supply chain implementation to improve broiler (chicken) welfare. Their goals included:

    • Harnessing the collective demand — and individual motivations — of the country’s largest food system operators, restaurants, grocers, and brands to encourage chicken producers to improve welfare standards.

    • Keeping members of the U.S. Working Group for Broiler Welfare engaged, inspired, and accountable to their commitments.

    • Supporting individual companies in building the business case for animal welfare to internal procurement, finance and marketing colleagues as well as to clients.

  • Build for Good has partnered with CIWF for more than 18 months to amplify their U.S. Food Business team’s influence and impact. This has included:

    • Strategic Planning: Setting Objectives and Key Results for U.S. Food Business Team’s broiler welfare work at the organizational, Working Group, and committee levels.

    • Partnership Facilitation: Guiding the 20+ annual meetings and coordinate next steps of the U.S. Working Group for Broiler Welfare —the nation’s only coalition uniting major food companies to advance broiler chicken welfare — and its sub-committees.

    • Stakeholder Engagement: Collecting and analyze partner procurement data to identify trends. Supporting CIWF’s individual corporate partners as they engage their own supply chains.

    • Workstream Design & Management: Designing and leading workstreams in pursuit of CIWF U.S. Food Business team’s impact goals and their corporate partners’ procurement goals.

    • Updated Working Group Strategy with clear Objectives, Key Results, and milestones that the client and Working Group members can use for guidance and accountability. 

    • Create and lead new programming to respond to client and Working Group member feedback, improving member market education, engagement, and policy advocacy.  

    • Improve CIWF U.S. brand and raise public awareness by building new media, conference, and producer partnerships.  

    • Strengthen CIWF’s capacity to support the U.S. Better Chicken Commitment through strategic planning, program design, work stream leadership, partnership building, and corporate partner procurement support.

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Client Type
Sustainable Investment Firm

Client Team
Executive & Investment Teams

Sector
Financial Services

Engagement Type
Project-Based

  • A fund manager set out to launch its first climate fund focused on “first of a kind” mitigation and adaptation infrastructure. They wanted to ensure the fund’s capital would be catalytic, with myriad environmental and social impact targets in addition to a financial return appropriate for a catalytic fund. The firm engaged Build for Good to:

    • Develop a Theory of Change for the fund to define how investments will drive target outputs and outcomes.

    • Design a multi-asset class investment strategy to reduce emissions, support job creation, attract a multiple of outside capital, and deliver an appropriate financial return. 

    • Recommend the right fund structure by assessing vehicle design, target investor mix, and ability to support a blended capital stack.

    • Develop initial investor marketing materials to translate the strategy into a clear investment thesis and differentiate from other funds in market.

  • We partnered with the firm’s leadership to align strategic vision among team members, set impact and financial return targets, and develop initial marketing materials. Our work included: 

    • Market Insights: Surveyed other investors and project developers in the sector and conducted market research to identify existing funding gaps and pipeline opportunities.

    • Theory of Change Development: Built a clear, outcomes-driven framework to guide the fund’s catalytic impact and investment approach.

    • Investment Strategy Design: Recommended sectors of focus, a target asset allocation, impact targets for emissions reduction and social impact, and a financial return target as part of an overall strategy aligned with intended funder priorities.

    • Investor Narrative Development: Drafted initial marketing materials to support early outreach and engagement with prospective investors.

    • Crafted a Theory of Change to align the fund’s investment strategy with measurable climate, social impact, and economic development outcomes.

    • Drafted an investment strategy to guide fund design, including recommended sector focus areas, catalytic project type examples, and a target asset allocation with a financial return target

    • Created initial investor marketing materials to support the firm’s Investor Relations team’s fundraise.

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Sector
Tribal Nations Community Development

Engagement Type
Advisory & Project Management

Client Type
New U.S. non-profit

Client Team
Founding Team

  • When shifts in federal and development funding prompted a strategic re-evaluation in early 2025, cDots — a fast-growing nonprofit building local coalitions for clean infrastructure and workforce develpoment— turned to Build for Good for support. Together, we charted an early path for growth by:

    • Refocusing priorities to clarify near-term goals, sequence initiatives, and identify “critical pathways.”

    • Designing a lean operating model that aligned staffing, time allocation, and program delivery with realistic constraints.

    • Streamlining the budget fit in with tighter funding environment and leverage part-time contractor support.

    • Building partnerships with local incubators, fiscal sponsors, and related organizations so expand funder and operating partner network.

  • We partnered with the founding team to refocus priorities, define an operating model, and build partnerships to support their early growth. This included:

    • Strategic Advisory:  Identifying critical paths, setting short-term “weekly sprint” and monthly priorities, and jointly evaluating pathway viability. 

    • Budgetary Review: Revising the budget for a capital-constrained environment, concentrating resources on critical-path operations.

    • Operating Model Development: Designing a staffing, funding, and operating model for the next 6–12 months to support lean yet scalable operations.

    • Partner & Contractor Identification: Identifying and screening potential strategic partners and contractors; identifying and building relationships with potential fiscal sponsors.

    • Guided the development of a sustainable operating strategy to navigate a fiscal sponsorship transition and strengthen organizational structure

    • Strengthened coalition development, connecting cDots with national networks, fiscal sponsors, and mission-aligned intermediaries.

    • Enhanced financial and operational systems to ensure accountability, compliance, and readiness for multi-year growth.

    • Positioned cDots for its next phase of growth, combining lean execution with a credible, funder-ready strategy for place-based impact.

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Client Type
Fortune 500 company

Client Team
North America Sustainability, Procurement, M&A teams

Sector
Food & Beverage

Engagement Type
Project-Based

  • PepsiCo sought to close its plastic waste loops in an economically viable manner while mitigating its carbon footprint, supporting the development of novel recycling approaches, and supporting local communities. They sought support to:

    • Design a new model for lower-cost curbside recycling infrastructure for consumer goods’ packaging

    • Fund recycling infrastructure in “recycling deserts” around the U.S.

    • Generate an appropriate financial return for the U.S. CPG company

  • While at Closed Loop Partners, Allison collaborated closely with PepsiCo’s sustainability, procurement, and M&A teams to design a new operating model for local recycling. Over 18 months, she led cross-sector alignment and business case development for a modular recycling system tailored to small U.S. towns. Work included:

    • Impact Strategy: Defined goals to ensure circularity, economic development, and local infrastructure growth.

    • Operating Model Development: Designed a modular, scalable approach for “mini” recycling facilities.

    • Financial & Fund Modeling: Developed business and fund models to ensure economic viability and investor alignment.

    • Commodity Offtake Agreement Facilitation: Structured agreement to secure recycled material supply and project revenue streams.

    • Launched the $35 million Closed Loop Local Recycling Fund, creating a “win-win-win” model supporting local economic growth, infrastructure, and climate/circularity goals.

    • Piloted a modular, localized recycling facility model that is faster and less expensive to deploy than traditional facilities.

    • Enabled PepsiCo to build resilient, localized solutions for plastic recovery while testing a scalable model for small-town infrastructure in areas considered “recycling deserts.