Clients
Our clients are driven by the pursuit of a more equitable and sustainable world.
Click on a logo below to read about how we have partnered with mission-driven organizations achieve their goals.
Client
Compassion in World Farming
Client Type
International Non-Profit
Sector
Animal Welfare
Engagement Type
Long-term Strategic Advisory & Partnership Management
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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 broiler (chicken) producers to improve welfare standards.
Keeping members of the U.S. Working Group for Broiler Welfare engaged, inspired, and accountable on their commitments.
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Build for Good has partnered with CIWF for over a year 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.
Work Stream Design & Project Management: Designing and leading workstreams in pursuit of CIWF U.S. Food Business team’s impact goals and their corporate partners’ procurement goals.
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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
Client
Closed Loop Partners
Client Type
Impact Investment & Innovation Firm
Sector
Circular Economy
Engagement Type
Project-Based
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Closed Loop Partners (CLP) set out to launch a new impact investment fund. 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. CLP engaged Build for Good to:
Develop a Theory of Change for the fund
Design a multi-asset class investment strategy to close investors’ waste loops, reduce emissions, support job creation, attract a meaningful multiple of outside capital into funded projects, and deliver an appropriate financial return
Create initial marketing materials to support prospective investor discussions
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We partnered with CLP Capital Management’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 & Team Engagement: Surveyed team members 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 and sub-sectors of focus, a target asset allocation, and a financial return target as part of an overall strategy aligned with financial return targets, CLP impact goals, and anticipated investor priorities.
Investor Narrative Development: Drafted initial marketing materials to support early outreach and engagement with prospective investors.
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Crafted a Theory of Change to align the fund’s strategy with measurable circular economy outcomes.
Drafted an investment strategy — including sector focus areas, catalytic project type examples, a target asset allocation mix, and a financial return target —to guide fund design.
Created initial investor marketing materials to support the CLP team in having initial discussions with prospective investors.
Client
cDots
Client Type
Non-Profit
Sector
Tribal Nations Community Development
Engagement Type
Ongoing Advisory & Project Management
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After learning that a large federal grant program for which they had been short-listed as a recipient had been terminated, cDOTs’ management team had to quickly re-assess their strategy and operations. They sought the support of Build for Good to:
Revise their budget
Update their operating model, including staffing
Evaluate the best legal entity structure
Build relationships with potential “back office” administrators and fiscal sponsors
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We partnered with the founding team to chart a “most viable path” forward, streamline operations, and evaluate potential contractors and collaborators. This included:
Strategic Advisory: Identifying critical paths, setting short-term “weekly sprint” and medium term (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.
Contractor Identification: Identifying and screening potential contractors; identifying and building relationships with potential fiscal sponsors.
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Created a new budget aligned with existing and likely near-term grants.
Developed a staffing model that leverages outsourced operational and compliance support from a third party fiscal sponsor and a small consulting team.
Positioned cDOTs to pursue early growth strategically, with a flexible operating model that can scale as additional capital is raised and future opportunities emerge.
Helped the Executive Director gain confidence and focus through organizational redesign and short-term priority setting.
Sector
TK
Engagement Type
TK
Client
PepsiCo
Client Type
Food & Beverage
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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. The company aimed to pilot a model for localized recycling that could scale efficiently and sustainably.
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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.
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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.