Services
Grant and RFP Applications & Management
Government grant and professional service contracts for clean energy projects are highly complex and competitive, requiring efficient, organized and knowledgeable professional resources for success. SES offers almost 20 years of experience in successfully securing and managing government contracts and philanthropic investments, and can provide valuable support for your organization’s grant and contracting needs.
Program Development & Implementation
It is uniquely challenging to create high quality programs that deliver meaningful, measurable results for inclusive clean energy projects, with a relatively small group of businesses, nonprofits and governments achieving a laudable record of high impact success. As new federal and state incentive programs come online in the coming years, SES offers expertise to support program development with ambitious metrics tempered by real world experience to ensure your organization can best match aspirations with pragmatism to deliver outstanding results.
Project Finance
Inclusive clean energy projects are more affordable than ever, but generally still require careful consideration of available grants, incentives and gap financing to maximize impact while minimizing needed capital. With decades of experience in both nonprofit and for-profit clean energy financing, SES can ensure that your organization is knowledgeable in all available financing strategies to ensure the most cost-effective project results.
Government Advocacy & Partnerships
Government relationships are complex, dynamic and require consistent, persistent communications to deliver success. New federal incentives are creating new and innovative partnering opportunities, and highly skilled, experienced professionals will be key to creating and supporting new government programs and funds delivery. SES is highly experienced in government advocacy and partnership management from both a nonprofit perspective, as well as a business lens.
Community Engagement & Collaboration
New federal clean energy programs are expressly intended to benefit low income and historically disadvantaged communities, with criteria designating 40% of funding to be directed to their benefit in the coming years. Program providers need to ensure that these communities benefit from innovative and committed engagement strategies to ensure that they are empowered to create their preferred solutions with providers rather than being offered minimal engagement from program providers who are not embedded in the community. SES has extensive experience identifying and engaging with civic leaders and organizations to ensure high quality collaborations that serve communities’ needs and goals, and foster authentic relationships and trust.
Capacity Building
At this historic intersection of unparallelled government funding with widespread awareness of the urgency of resiliency investments, organizations need to invest in their team’s expertise and experience. SES can deliver both to your organization, working with leadership to identify educational need areas and create a strategic plan to rapidly scale up professional development with management support.
Civic Marketing & Media Events
Breaking through public awareness barriers in our high-volume world is challenging in the best of circumstances, and even more so when seeking to engage with lower income and disadvantaged audiences. Savvy civic marketing and earned media events, when done well, can deliver outsized public engagement and results. As one of the creators of the most successful Solar for All community engagement strategies to date, SES can help your organization identify your marketing and media goals and create and implement high quality programming to maximize civic awareness and empower a high volume result.