Sample Case Studies

• • Climate

  Addressing Climate Change Risks in Ghana and Vietnam

  May 16, 2025

  CBI, along with the World Resources Institute, facilitated workshops in Ghana and Vietnam and designed role-plays to help participants consider risks associated with climate change.

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• • Social & Economic Policy

  Advancing Economic Opportunity in North Carolina

  May 16, 2025

  CBI helped the North Carolina Leadership Forum identify the state’s socioeconomic challenges and outline possible solutions.

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• • Energy

  Assessing and Facilitating a Governance Structure Redesign for PJM Interconnection

  May 16, 2025

  CBI and Raab Associates, Ltd. facilitated a stakeholder process to transform the governance of PJM Interconnection, the largest regional electricity transmission organization in the U.S.

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• • Energy

  Assessing Corporate-Community Conflict over a Hydropower Project in India

  May 16, 2025

  CBI conducted a stakeholder assessment around the construction of a hydropower project in northern India, with the aim of pinpointing and resolving conflicts between the energy company and the local community.

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• • Coasts & Oceans
  • Natural & Cultural Resources

  Balancing Conservation and Fishing Interests in Hawaii

  May 16, 2025

  When fishing activity off Hawaii inadvertently harmed the local false killer whale population, CBI and CONCUR facilitated negotiations that led to full consensus on management changes and research activities to reduce whale takes while preserving the fishing fleet's financial viability.

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• • Energy

  Beyond NIMBY: Exploring Stakeholder Landscape Values and Wind Energy Development

  May 16, 2025

  CBI assisted Macalester College to design and lead intensive stakeholder workshops across the country to better understand opposition to wind energy.

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Partial List of Convenors/Clients

• A Better City

• Aboriginal Leadership Inst.,Inc

• Amazon Conservation Team

• American Academy of Pediatrics

• American Cancer Society

• American Petroleum Institute

• American Wind Energy Association

• Asia Foundation Philippines

• Asialink Business

• Asian Development Bank

• Asociación Balam


• Association of National Estuary Programs

• Barr Foundation

• Bay Area Metropolitan Commission and Regional Collaborative

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Boston Foundation