EMPOWER RESULTS
Enriching the relationship between people and the environment: valuing voices and resources
Enriching the relationship between people and the environment: valuing voices and resources
Empower Results unites people and resources by creating programs, partnerships, and stewardship opportunities that produce social and environmental benefits.
Empower Results unites people and resources by creating programs, partnerships, and stewardship opportunities that produce social and environmental benefits.
Indianapolis Waste Minimization Study
Empower Results worked with APTIM and the City fo Indianapolis to produce an outreach and education plan for the City’s Waste Minimization Study. The study proposed a set of recommendations for delivering a universal curbside recycling program. Empower Result’s outreach and education plan explicates methods to promote the program and successful recycling behavior. The plan includes best practices, a discussion of barriers and motivations for behavior change, a breakdown of peer city programs, strategies to enhance the current drop-off and subscription programs, strategies for baseline and enhanced O&E relative to a new universal curbside program, a rollout schedule, and cost tables for each of the recommended practices.
PROJECT TASKS
- Managed focus group and stakeholder input sessions
- Researched and analyzed public outreach and education programs in peer and model cities, existing City strategies, and industry best practices
- Developed and produced overall education plan
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City of IndianapolisSERVICES
Environmental Education and Outreach, Public InvolvementIFA Water Study
The Indiana Finance Authority initiated the Central Indiana Water Study to provide a better understanding of the supply and demand of water resource sin the Central Indiana region. The effort will ultimately provide a data-driven foundation for collaborative decision making on shared water needs, challenges, and opportunities. Empower Results served as the outreach and education arm of a diverse team of scientists and agency representatives, producing a range of products to help explain the study to the public and decision makers who will most benefit from understanding the study’s results and recommendations.
PROJECT TASKS
- Developed project purpose statement and fact sheets
- Developed project FAQ set to accompany reports on the website
- In process of developing three video assets to present the project to different audiences, including the public and elected officials
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Indiana Finance AuthoritySERVICES
Environmental Education and Outreach, Public InvolvementLand Stewardship
Empower Results led the Office of Land Stewardship in creating a strategic plan that will guide the Office’s activity over the next 5 years. The internal planning document prioritized essential functions and provided action steps based on a clear timeline. Additional work was also done to develop a public outreach Master Plan designed to broaden awareness of the Office’s impact on environmental services in the city. This public-facing ‘Master Plan’ includes a summary of the Office’s role and ongoing activities, an inventory of property assets and amenities, restoration and maintenance success stories, the expansion of volunteer programs, and a suite of infographics which detail the ecological services and social benefits that result from well-maintained natural areas. Empower Results has gone on to help produce a series of videos on OLS’s work, interpretive signage, and assist in a range of outreach efforts.
PROJECT TASKS
- Led strategic planning process to determine prioritized action steps, and create work plan
- Led branding and communication processes
- Developed series of infographics and other materials to communicate the value of Land Stewardship activity
- Created a series of videos showing value of land protection and ecological services
- Designed and produced interpretive signage
- Created branded presentation materials
- Assisted in social media and other outreach efforts
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Indianapolis Office of Land StewardshipSERVICES
Environmental Education and Outreach, Environmental Planning, Group Facilitation
Awards
The creative energy of our team has helped us received some much appreciated recognition among our peers and professional organizations. Our President and principal owner, Jill Hoffmann, was recognized as the Water Conservationist of the Year 2009. The award recognizes one such leader statewide each year and is given out by the Indiana Wildlife Federation.
We have also been recognized indirectly for our innovation and creativity associated with the development and implementation of the White River Alliance’s nationally-award-winning program, Clear Choices Clean Water.
She has almost 20 years of experience in environmental planning, natural resource assessment, and public involvement programming, in both the public and private sectors.
She has 15 years of outdoor and environmental work experience, including ecological inventories, permitting, water quality testing, planting design, data interpretation/summary, and technical report writing for various agencies and local project sponsors
With a Bachelor in Fine Arts and a certificate in Business Management from Indiana University, London has nearly a decade of experience in marketing, communications, and team management roles.
