Services
Coaching and Advising
empower your community members, who are already equipped with the knowledge, trust, and creative imagination, to lead the community into a just energy future
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Alba assists the leaders, offering guidance where needed, through key steps in crafting and realizing the community vision including prioritizing among energy solution options, navigating funding opportunities, and connecting with trusted partners to implement solutions and carry out the vision.
Strategy Development
reach consensus within community; organize and prioritize the opportunities to pursue that align with your community’s common values and vision
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Alba supports community members coming together to envision their energy future and to strategize to achieve that future. Alba will compile and process input from community members, including capturing the community’s story and culture, to identify areas of agreement and points for further community alignment, and help map a common path forward.
Identifying and Securing Funding
access the funds institutions have created to serve your community needs without committing precious time and resources
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Alba recognizes finding and deciding which funding opportunity best fits specific community needs, and applying for funding, requires significantly more time and research than community leaders can invest.
Alba will research and summarize funding options, provide information on the resources that will be needed to complete the application process, and help prioritize the opportunities to pursue. Alba can also support in preparing, reviewing, and/or submitting applications, leveraging years of experience speaking the language and format of government decision makers.
Partnering
get connected with trusted service providers and staff from government, university, private foundations, and other community organizations
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Alba will support your community to add capacity. We will assess potential partners to ensure community partners maintain control of their projects. We will screen potential contractors to connect you to those that can be trusted to respect the time and well-being of community members and fiscal constraints of the project.
Project Management
be assured that your community’s approach receives helpful and meaningful interest from funding and other organizations
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Alba understands what various funding agencies are looking for. By proactively providing the general project planning and execution details of the community in a structure the organizations are used to, you can avoid being “managed” by these outside organizations and instead invite their constructive suggestions. We speak “bureaucrat” and can merge the community’s approach into the framing and approach expected by governments. Also we support any number crunching needs; e.g. budget planning, fiscal reporting, and an assessment of additional resources needed.
Tailored Trainings
make the realm of possibilities known and enable community members of all backgrounds to participate in community decision making and project implementation
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Alba can develop tailored information sessions according to the community’s interests. Alba intends to give community members clear information upfront on what benefits and possible tradeoffs they can expect from various solution options.
Award Administration
alleviate administrative burden
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Lean on Alba to handle administrative commitments. While most award tasks have the benefit of building skills within the community, some administrative work has little or no such value. Alba can submit reports and perform other administrative requirements of funding agencies in consultation with the community.